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Long Wait Over. . .president Assents to Constitutional Bill Today. . . 8 Sections to Come Into Force Immediately
PRESIDENT Mugabe is today expected to sign Constitutional Amendment (No. 20) Bill into law at State House at a function to be attended by Principals to the Global Political Agreement. Presidential spokesperson Mr George Charamba confirmed the development yesterday. "Once the signing is done, the document goes for gazetting and in terms of coming into force, there are two critical dates, ...
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Mawere Told to Renounce SA Citizenship to Receive Zim ID
A well known Zimbabwean businessman with South African citizenship was last week told by the Registrar General Tobaiwa Mudede that he had to renounce his foreign citizenship first, before he could apply for a Zimbabwe identification document. Under the new constitution, signed into law by President Robert Mugabe on Wednesday, an individual cannot be denied dual citizenship if the person was ...
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Mai Tsvangirai Aides Ageing Society
As she clutched her food hamper that had among other things, cooking oil, sugar, flour and drinks, Gogo Anna Chimakure was all smiles. Gogo Chimakure said Mai Elizabeth Tsvangirai should be applauded for remembering old people. "Who would have thought she would give us so much." Gogo Chimakure said as she looked at the hamper she had received. "It is an early Christmas," ...
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Zimbabwe Chinese VP Meets President
VISITING Chinese Vice Premier Wang Yang met President Mugabe at State House today where he briefed him on the investment agreements his country signed with various ministries. The agreements are worth US$36 million as the two countries continue to cement their flourishing economic ties. Speaking through an interpreter after the meeting, Vice-Premier Wang expressed gratification on meeting the ...
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Zimbabwe Dj Munya Appears in Court
STAR FM DJ, Munyaradzi Mlimo, accused of killing a man he suspected of having an extra-marital affair with his wife, today appeared in court together with his two accomplices charged with murder. DJ Munya (32) as he is popularly known is jointly charged with Taurai Janhi (34) and Mohammed Matare (31). The trio appeared before Mr Donald Ndirowei who remanded him in custody to June 5. Mr Ndirowei ...
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China strengthens Zimbabwe ties with vice-presidential visit
The Chinese official arrived in Zimbabwe on Tuesday on an official visit to boost business and bilateral relations between Harare and Beijing. He was welcomed at the Harare International Airport by Vice President Joice Mujuru, Defence Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa and Minister of State in the Vice President’s Office Sylvester Nguni. Speaking to journalists soon after arrival, the Chinese ...
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PMs Remarks At the Visit By the Chinese Vice Premier
On our part, we pledge to respect property rights as part of the many rights that are now protected by our new Constitution which Zimbabweans recently endorsed overwhelmingly. We respet property rights and we hope to receive FDI from China which will work as a catalyst to the development of our economy and lead to improved livelihoods of the people of Zimbabwe and the sustainability of Chinese ...
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Chinas new leadership highly values friendship with Zimbabwe
Visiting Vice Premier Wang Yang on Wednesday told Zimbabwean Vice President Joyce Mujuru that China's new leadership highly values the traditional friendship with Zimbabwe.Wang said his visit is to follow up to the African trip by Chinese President Xi Jinping earlier this year and join Zimbabweans in efforts to push Sino-Zimbabwean cooperation in all fields to achieve "greater ...
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Zimbabwe Election Funding Elusive as South Africa Refers Request to SADC
WASHINGTON DC -- South Africa’s Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan has recommended that Zimbabwe sends its election funding appeal to the Southern African Development Community for consideration, contradicting remarks by the country’s Deputy Foreign Minister, Ebrahim Ebrahim, last week that Pretoria was willing to help fund Zimbabwe’s elections. Gordhan was responding to ...
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Thomas Mapfumo New Constitution Must Improve Peoples Lives
WASHINGTON DC -- Chimurenga music guru Thomas "Mukanya" Mapfumo on Wednesday backed the country’s new constitution but urged authorities to use it to improve the lives of ordinary Zimbabweans. He said the country’s supreme law should not be used selectively. Speaking from Oregon, here in America shortly before leaving for London where he is expected to perform, ...
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U.N Seeking $25 Million for Zimbabwe Food Aid
WASHINGTON -- The United Nations World Food Programme needs nearly $25 million to ensure it meets food aid requirements in Zimbabwe over the next six months. In its monthly report, the United Nations Office of Humanitarian Affairs said the shortafall would make it difficult for the agency to assist the needy in the country from May to October. Its food agency, WFP, needs $24.5 million for ...
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Bulawayo Council Auctions Residents Property
BULAWAYO -- Bulawayo residents have condemned the auctioning of property belonging to residents who owe the local authority thousands of dollars in unpaid water and supplementary charges. Although the Bulawayo City Council suspended such moves last year after complaints from residents, it has since started the auctions with property from 16 households having already gone under the hammer and ...
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Chinese vice premier calls for stability in Zimbabwe
HARARE (AFP) - Chinese vice premier Wang Yang on Wednesday urged Zimbabwe to ensure peace and political stability ahead of elections this year, to safeguard economic growth."A peaceful and stable political environment is the prerequisite for economic development," Wang told journalists after meeting Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai in Harare during a business visit to ...
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Zimbabwe insists on Zimplats mine seizure
Zimbabwe vowed on Wednesday it would not roll back on plans to seize 28,000 hectares of land leased to a local subsidiary of the platinum-mining giant Impala Platinum. "If there is anyone who thinks they own land, please prepare yourselves for the shocks that will actually befall you," said mines and mineral development minister Obert Mpofu. "No one owns land especially mining ...
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Mugabe Signs New Constitution Into Law Paving Way For Crucial Polls
HARARE -- President Robert Mugabe today signed into law a new constitution that curbs the powers of his office and clears the way for fresh elections, marking a new era for the country that has been run under the Lancaster House Constitution since independence from Britain in 1980. President Mugabe smiled and shook hands with fellow unity government principals, including long-time rival, ...
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Mugabe signs Zimbabwe constitution paving way for vote
1 of 3. Zimbabwe's Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai (R) looks on as President Robert Mugabe signs Zimbabwe's new constitution into law in the capital Harare, May 22, ...
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Tsvangirai Holds Bilateral Talks With Chinese Vice Premier
HARARE -- Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai today held bilateral talks with the visiting Chinese vice premier, Wang Yang, which centered on trade between the two countries as well as the political situation in Zimbabwe. Mr. Tsvangirai told the Chinese vice premier that a new government that will be elected in fresh elections expected to be held this year will continue to engage the Chinese to ...
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World Mugabe signs constitution into law
constitution into law on Wednesday, replacing a 33-year-old document forged in the dying days of British colonial rule and paving the way for an election later this ...
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Mugabe Paves The Way For Zimbabwe Elections
President Robert Mugabe has cleared the path to crucial elections later this year by signing Zimbabwe's new constitution into law. The 89-year-old, who has ruled Zimbabwe since independence from Britain in 1980, signed the document two months after it was overwhelmingly approved by Zimbabweans at a referendum. "This is a happening of joy, great joy indeed," Mr Mugabe said at ...
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Zimbabwe gets a new constitution
Zimbabweans overwhelmingly approved a new draft constitution paving way for elections scheduled for later this year, the country's electoral commission announced Wednesday. The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) announced that the draft constitution had received 3,079,966 votes, just fewer than 93 percent of the votes ...
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Makomo Mine - Defying Odds
Day after day of cloudless skies sucks moisture from mother earth, baking dry the black-and-tan soil that stretches for thousands of hectares. More than a dozen of steel dinosaurs (heavy mining equipment)- wreck, pluck and pull down the huge mopane and baobab trees, with jaws that rip off the womb of the earth. When the wrecking is done, the diggers come in cutting gashes in the black-and-tan ...
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New Zimbabwe constitution can usher in new culture of human rights
Zimbabwe's new constitution presents a golden opportunity for the country to break away from a culture of impunity for human rights violations, Amnesty International said today.President Robert Mugabe today signed into law a new constitution, following a three-year constitution-making process to replace the Lancaster House constitution adopted at independence in 1980."The new ...
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Humble Tsvangirai I Presume
Today Please Call Me Humble Caesar Zvayi, I Am Really, Really Desperate to Be Humble. for a Humble Life Is What I Have Been Trying to Build Since the Day I Earned My First Salary but Alas, I Didn't Know What Such a Life Entails Till I Heard It From the Lips of Our Prime Minister, the "Humble" Right Honourable Morgan Richard Tsvangirai. The man lives a "humble" life in a ...
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Zimbabwe Global Fund Project in Zimbabwe Uses Technology to Improve Data Collection
A project being implemented under a Global Fund grant will improve Zimbabwe's health information systems by providing Internet connection infrastructure for 82 urban and rural sites. The Zimbabwe project is just one of many similar projects around the world where modern communications technology is being used to enhance data collection. The project is part of a Round 8 health systems ...
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Zimbabwes president signs new constitution
President Robert Mugabe said Wednesday the new constitution, unanimously accepted in a March referendum, has shown that Zimbabweans are united, regardless of political affiliation and without outside ...
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