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Zimbabwe Key Allies Dump MDC-T
KEY allies snubbed MDC-T's national policy conference last Friday, scuttling party leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai's bid to form an electoral pact with them ahead of a watershed election set for this year. The Herald is reliably informed that MDC-T sent written invitations to Professor Lovemore Madhuku's National Constitutional Assembly, Mr Munyaradzi Gwisai of the International ...
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President Mugabe Makes Two Safe Appointments to the Supreme Court
Two more judges have been appointed to the Supreme Court bench in line with the country's new constitution which was gazetted this week. Justices Ben Hlatshwayo and Bharat Patel were sworn in by President Robert Mugabe at State House on Wednesday, bringing the total on the bench to nine. The new judges were said to be elated at their promotion from the High Court to the superior court, ...
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Zimbabwe June Election Unlawful in Terms of New Constitution
The new Constitution that was formally gazetted by Robert Mugabe on Wednesday makes his desired June election date technically unlawful, with months worth of preparations constitutionally required. Mugabe and his ZANU PF party have been pushing for elections to be held as soon as the current Parliamentary term comes to an end on June 29th. This is the official date that marks the end of the ...
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Zimbabwe Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission Pleads for Funding
The dysfunctional Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC) has approached parliament in a bid to get funding for its operations, a few months before the end of its tenure. The commission was set up in 2009 under the current inclusive government, to investigate human rights abuses following the bloody 2008 elections. But four years later and a few months from the expiry of its life on June 29th, ...
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Zimbabwe HIV Test Case Heard By Zimbabwes New Constitutional Court
A rights activist, who is living with HIV, filed a test case in the newly constituted Constitutional Court on Thursday to highlight the challenges and ill treatment facing people living with the virus in the country's prisons. The Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights said Douglas Muzanenhamo's landmark legal application becomes the first case under the new constitutional dispensation, ...
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Jonathan Manthorpe Zimbabwes ray of hope with a new constitution
Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe (left) signs into law the Zimbabwe’s new constitution next to Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai (right) at the State House in Harare, on May 22, 2013. 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 in a ...
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The World Today podcast Zimbabwes new constitution
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe signs draft constitution. Zimbabwe's president of 33 years, Robert Mugabe, on Wednesday signed a new constitution which many believe offers the southern African country its first real hope for political and economic revival. Zimbabwe’s people have suffered more than a decade of murderous repression by the regime, collapse of the country's once ...
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Zimbabwe Saints of Dictatorship Versus Prisoners of Defunct Legitimacy
The events of 2008 in Zimbabwe led to bloodshed and the present-day Government of National Unity. ZANU PF has exposed its cast-iron willpower to thwart the implementation of any meaningful reforms and the prognosis for the 2013 elections appears ...
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Zimbabwe Spy Chief Convicted of Electoral Violence Pardoned by Mugabe Dies
WASHINGTON -- The Deputy Director (internal) of the Central Intelligence Organization (CIO), Elias Kanengoni, died Thursday. His elder brother, Alexander Kanengoni, said the spy boss was taken ill at a private clinic in Harare on Wednesday night and was pronounced dead Thursday. Kanengoni had been campaigning to represent Zanu-PF as a senatorial candidate for the Mazowe constituency in ...
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Zimbabwe Lawyers Say Harare Police Station Not for HIV Positive Inmates
HARARE -- The Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) says in a claim before the Supreme Court today Harare Central Police Station is no place for HIV positive inmates. In February 2011, social rights activist Douglas Muzanenhamo was arrested, along with 44 others, on charges that he was plotting Egyptian-style uprisings in Zimbabwe. Muzanenhamo says that during his detention at Harare ...
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$10 Million Zimbabwe Youth Empowerment Fund Loses Steam
WASHINGTON DC -- The country’s controversial indigenization program was back in the news at the weekend with Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai threatening to reverse the Zanu-PF backed empowerment drive if elected president in fresh polls this year. Today parliament heard the empowerment drive is failing to attract the country’s youth with very few applying for funds under the $10 ...
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Zimbabwe The sweet business of Harares airport road
As part of a deal that Harare city council signed for the construction of a highway to the airport, the city is having to expand so it can award new land to the contractors. The contract says the city can pay for part of the $80m project in land, but Harare has run out of space.As a result it is re-designating agricultural land nearby.Signed in 2009, the public-private partnership is a sweet one ...
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Bio-Diesel Project in Limbo
THE bio-diesel plant in Mt Hampden, about 15 kilomtres northwest of Harare, could remain a white elephant after experiments showed that the jatropha plant cannot be sustainably run on a commercial basis. The bio-diesel plant, built about four years ago, is the first of its kind in Africa and only one of the few in the world. It was designed to mainly process oils extracted from jatropha seeds ...
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New Constitution - Signed and Sealed
PRESIDENT Mugabe yesterday signed Constitution of Zimbabwe Amendment (Number 20) Bill into law before its subsequent publication in an extraordinary Government Gazette. The publication was made by Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet Dr Misheck Sibanda. "The following law, which has been assented to by His Excellency the President, is published in terms of section 51(5) of the ...
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Malaria Kills 200 People Nationwide
About 200 people have died of malaria since the beginning of the year and nearly 300 000 others have been treated. According to the Government's weekly report for week ending May 5, the most affected provinces were Manicaland and Mashonaland East. In Zimbabwe, malaria is experienced throughout the year, but cases begin in February and peak in April before they start to go down in May. ...
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China Extends U.S $36 Million Loan for Projects
CHINA has extended a US$36 million loan to Zimbabwe for various projects following the visit by Vice-Premier Wang Yang who met President Mugabe at State House yesterday. The agreements were signed before Mr Wang and Vice-President Joice Mujuru, after which he proceeded to meet President Mugabe.Mr Wang briefed the President on the deals. Speaking through an interpreter after the meeting, Mr ...
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President Mugabe Condemns Suarez
IT was highly unprofessional for Liverpool forward Luis Suarez to bite Chelsea player Branislav Ivanovic as sporting events are contests and not a declaration of war, President Mugabe has said. Last month Suarez sunk his teeth into Ivanovic's arm during a match at Anfield, attracting worldwide condemnation. He was subsequently handed a 10 match ban by the Football Association. The Head ...
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Govt Sets Maize Price
GOVERNMENT has set an interim producer price for maize at US$310 per tonne, up from US$295, Agriculture, Mechanisation and Irrigation Development Minister Dr Joseph Made said yesterday. But in an interview, Minister Made said the final price, higher than the interim price, was still to be decided and farmers would be paid the balance once the final price is agreed. The farmers have proposed an ...
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RTG Poised for Major Upgrade
Rainbow Tourism Group has embarked on a major refurbishment drive that is set to bring a refreshing look to the facilities run by the leisure group, chief executive Mr Tendai Madzivanyika has said. Speaking at Indaba 2013 in Durban, South Africa, recently, Mr Madzivanika - who recently took over the reins at RTG - singled out the A'Zambezi Lodge in Victoria Falls, the Rainbow Towers Hotel ...
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Politburo Demands Unified Poll Guidelines
THE Zanu-PF Politburo has directed its legal committee and the women's league to consult and come up with one position on rules and regulations to guide the party's primary elections after the later proposed that female aspiring candidates exclusively contest each other. The party's legal committee had already drafted terms for the primary elections before the women's league ...
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Tsvangirai Castigates Chinese Investors
PRIME MINISTER Morgan Tsvangirai yesterday launched a thinly veiled attack on Chinese investors in Zimbabwe accusing them of unfair labour practices. He also rapped his MDC-T led City of Harare council for failing to repair roads that are riddled with potholes. PM Tsvangirai said the high volume of traffic in Harare was a result of potholes that made the traffic to move slowly as motorists ...
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Mutambara Assures Nation of Voter Registration
CABINET is seized with the voter registration issue and it will make sure that funds for another round of the process are available, Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara has said. He said the inclusive government, headed by President Mugabe was now focusing on determining when the country would hold the election following the signing of the Constitutional Amendment Bill into law by the ...
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Japan Commissions Health Project
THE Japanese ambassador to Zimbabwe Mr Yonezo Fukuda yesterday commissioned US$107 500 projects the embassy initiated in Beitbridge district. The projects initiated under "Improved Health Facilities Health Programme", were then implemented by an NGO, Help Germany. Speaking during a handover ceremony at Makhakavhule Health Centre, Mr Fukuda said the programme aims to reduce morbidity ...
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Mugabe signs new constitution into law
Robert Mugabe signed the country's new constitution into law, eliminating the possibility of elections by June 29. The new constitution, which was approved in a public vote in March, requires a 30-day mandatory voter registration period be instituted after the approval of the new charter, experts told NewsDay Zimbabwe. Another 56 days would be needed after the Election Day is decided ...
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ANC Congratulates the People of Zimbabwe On New Constitution
The African National Congress congratulates President Robert Mugabe and the people of Zimbabwe on the signing into law of their new constitution today. The signing of the constitution is a culmination of a process that started when the people committed themselves and participated in a free and fair referendum earlier this year. Parliament then passed the constitution unanimously, leading the way ...
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