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MDC-T Launches Promising Transformation Plan
The MDC led by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai on Friday launched its plans for transforming Zimbabwe, plans which have been described as "promising." Tsvangirai on Friday officially opened his party's 8th policy conference in Harare, a three day event that will set the tone for his and his party's election campaign this year. The theme for the conference is: "Towards ...
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Harare City Council Needs $2.5 Billion to Address Citys Water Woes
The Harare City Council on Thursday revealed that it requires a staggering $2.5 billion to roll out a programme to address the city's water problems. Speaking to journalists, Harare Mayor Muchadeyi Masunda said the programme would ensure that residents have uninterrupted supplies, during a week when most residents had no water. The dormitory town of Chitungwiza, which gets its water from ...
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Policy to Transform Zim Launched
The policy that will open Zimbabwe for business, usher in substantive reforms in various sectors with the sole objective of spurring economic growth, restore our collective dignity and creating jobs for the millions of unemployed Zimbabweans has been launched. The policy was launched Friday at a colorful ceremony held at the Jubilee Christian Centre in Harare. Even young people who are ...
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Zim for Inaugural Childrens World Cup
CHILDREN from local homes will have an opportunity to showcase their talent when they take part in the World Cup of Children from Care Homes "Hope for Mundial" to be held in Warsaw, Poland,next month. The event will be held on June 15 and 16 and the participating teams are expected to arrive on June 13. Zimbabwe was invited for the inaugural World Cup after Kutting Edge Sports ...
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Cowdray Park Residents Battle Ongoing Water Problems in the Dry City
Residents in the still growing Cowdray Park suburb of Bulawayo are battling with ongoing water shortages that have plagued the area for more than seven years. Thousands of people, allocated stands in the area, have been forced to add hours of queuing for water into their every day plans. They say the water problems have been caused by bad planning, with only five communal taps servicing eight ...
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Mugabe’s party accuses Coca Cola of promoting rival party ahead of election
A man waits to obtain his national identity card during a voter registration drive in Harare ahead of the general election. Photograph: Philimon ...
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Zimbabwe Business Delegation Visits USA
WASHINGTON DC -- A high-powered delegation of business executives and top government officials has arrived in Washington DC to link Zimbabweans in the diaspora with captains of industry and commerce in an effort to revive the Zimbabwe economy. Esau Mavindidze of the Zimbabwe Business Network International, which is hosting the delegation with Zimbabwe Expo Business Consortium, said the ...
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Ncube Take Advantage of Voter Registration Exercise
WASHINGTON -- Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Welshman Ncube says Zimbabweans should take advantage of the up-coming thirty-day voter registration exercise to ensure their names are on the voters roll as the country prepares for fresh elections. The exercise will begin soon after the Zimbabwe Constitution Amendment Bill Number 20 is signed by President Robert Mugabe and gazetted ...
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Mugabes Party Dispatches Probe Team to Deal With Deepening Factionalism in Masvingo
WASHINGTON -- A Zanu-PF probe team led by chairman Simon Khaya Moyo is now in the volatile Masvingo Province to try and address factionalism that might prove costly for the party in the forthcoming election. Sources in Masvingo told VOA that some Provincial Cordinating Committee (PCC) members met last weekend and vowed to resist any attempts to dissolve the provincial leadership as has ...
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Tsvangirai Vows to Fight Graft Unemployment if Party Wins Elections
HARARE -- Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai on Friday vowed to fight corruption to high unemployment levels in the country is his party wins fresh elections expected to be called sometime this year. Mr. Tsvangirai made the commitment in an address officially opening his party’s three-day national policy conference horning out its top priority policies to champion during the ...
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Zimbabwe’s Mr. Ironman Contest Back After Two-Year Absence
HARARE -- One of Zimbabwe’s top bodybuilding competitions, Mr. Ironman, returns to the Zimbabwean sports calendar after two years of absence. The Zimbabwe Bodybuilding and Fitness Federation says Mr. and Miss Ironman competition will be held on June 1 in the Mashonaland West town of Kadoma instead of its traditional Harare venue as the federation seeks to spread the sport around the ...
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Zim PM confident of unseating Mugabe
';We are going to be new brooms'; for change, he told about 500 party leaders and activists at a party conference to finalize a platform. He will be pitted against long-time ruler President Robert Mugabe, 89, in elections. No date has been set but it is expected to be held around ...
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Zimbabwe Men Fear Vasectomy
WASHINGTON DC -- Less than 500 men undergo vasectomy each year in zimbabwe as a form of birth control compared to almost half a million people in the United States of America who take ...
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A New Dawn for Zimbabwe
For many years travelers have avoided Zimbabwe, aware that the country was ruled by a brutal regime. But Robert Mugabe's time is growing short, safari lodges are filling up, and the spectacular wildlife is flourishing ...
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Zimbabwes PM says his is poised to win elections sweep in change to end years of isolation
HARARE, Zimbabwe - Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said Friday he is poised to sweep to victory in upcoming presidential elections and return the nation to the world community after years of isolation. "We are going to be new brooms" for change, he told about 500 party leaders and activists at a party conference to finalize a platform. He will be pitted against long-time ...
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Zimbabwe PM confident hell oust Mugabe in vote
HARARE, Zimbabwe -; Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said Friday he is poised to sweep to victory in upcoming presidential elections and return the nation to the world community after years of ...
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Zimbabwe PM We are new broom set to win polls
HARARE, Zimbabwe -; Zimbabwe's prime minister says he is poised to win the presidency in upcoming elections and return the nation to the world community after years of ...
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KingdomValley Technologies Deal Turned Sour
Last Friday the financial markets woke up to disturbing news that all was not well at Kingdom Bank. It emerged Afrasia Kingdom Bank (Kingdom) had been struggling to manage its lending relationship with a major debtor, Valley Technologies, resulting in the bank being exposed to the tune of more than US$21 million to the mobile phone operator. There were immediate and mixed reactions from ...
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Security Forces Step Up New Recruitments
ZANU PF is stepping up its election campaign with the army, police and prison services embarking on a massive recruitment drive to aid the party to win the do-or-die polls later this year. Government sources told the Zimbabwe Independent this week secret recruitments by Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA), Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) and Zimbabwe Prison Services (ZPS) were underway in defiance of ...
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MDC-T Alliance Plans Stall Over Power-Sharing Dispute
The MDC - T's plan to form alliances with other political parties, especially the MDC, are stalling over power-sharing mechanisms in the event of an electoral victory, with senior members from both sides fearing they may lose out on influential posts in the new government, close sources have said. The two parties have enjoyed a love-hate relationship since their acrimonious split in ...
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Zimbabwe Mugabe to Summon Military Generals
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe has tacitly agreed to summon service chiefs over their recent inflammatory political statements in which they threw afresh their weight behind Zanu PF, as pressure mounts on him to rein in military commanders ahead of watershed elections later this year. Mugabe is under pressure from Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, a victim of vicious military verbal attacks, and Sadc ...
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SADC Puts Foot Down Over Reforms
SADC leaders are standing firm and insisting on the Global Political Agreement (GPA) and its attendant poll roadmap as President Robert Mugabe and Zanu PF get increasingly desperate to railroad the country to general elections when the tenure of the coalition government expires next month. While Mugabe and his party have instructed their negotiator in GPA talks, Patrick Chinamasa, to come up ...
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June 29 Poll Claims Zanu-PF Chat Show
Brian Chitemba - FOR the past four years, President Robert Mugabe has been threatening to unilaterally call for general elections to end the coalition government he claims is a dysfunctional creature. Publicly, Mugabe has since 2010 been telling Zimbabweans to get ready for imminent elections, claiming the unity government formed in 2009 only had a two-year mandate despite not providing any ...
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Polls Face Litmus Test
WHILE Zimbabwe is supposedly busy laying the groundwork for credible, free and fair elections to usher in a post-coalition government, the country's muddled mobile voter registration exercise heralds chaotic polls with yet another disputed outcome. The ultimate deliverable of the Global Political Agreement is a peaceful polls whose result can stand the litmus test of domestic and ...
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Voter Registration Dominates Cabinet
VOTER registration again dominated cabinet discussions this week as it became more apparent that bureaucratic bungling and systematic disenfranchisement of potential voters by the Registrar-General's office is continuing unabated, resulting in ministers resolving that teachers countrywide be involved in the exercise. Government sources told the Zimbabwe Independent after noting that ...
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