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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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MDCT to Rationalise Armed Forces
The MDC - MDC-T would cut down the number of defence forces and establish a defence service commission (DSC) in a bid to ensure security sector reforms if it comes to power. In its policy document seen by the Zimbabwe Independent, which will be launched today in Harare by party leader and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, security sector reforms will top the agenda if the party wrests power in ...
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When Will Zim Be Ready for Elections
DR Ibbo Mandaza, a local academic, author and publisher, always has interesting "theories" on politics, current events and how things are likely to pan out. Besides being an intriguing political operator in his own right, his views can be enlightening, yet sometimes sound theoretical and far-fetched, if eccentric, before events prove him right -- not all the time, but sometimes. ...
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Zims Actual GDP Distorted By Corruption
The size of any economy, its growth or shrinkage, is generally determined by evaluation of the country's Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The Zimbabwe Statistical Agency (Zimstat) regularly measures Zimbabwe's GDP, and assiduously strives to determine it as accurately as reasonably possible. It commendably does the same with many other statistics which are of significance to aid ...
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Zim to Reduce Data Charges
ZIMBABWE'S high broadband charges could be reduced as more people take up broadband internet usage, experts say. This follows a 2012 Freedom House report which indicated Zimbabwe faces a number of practical obstacles that hindered citizens' access to internet services, including high prices and limited infrastructure. Freedom House said the rates charged for pre-paid mobile web ...
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Police Ban Political Parties From Door-to-Door Campaigns
OFFICER Commanding Harare Suburban District, Chief Superintendent Reggies Chitekwe, this week summoned the main political parties to Harare Central police station to announce the ban of door-to-door campaigns to curb political violence which might increase as the country heads for general elections this year. The announcement by Chitekwe comes after the MDC-T launched a door-to-door campaign ...
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Zimbabwe to Pay Off Nampower $40 Million Debt
ZIMBABWE is expected to have more than 100 megawatts (MW) additional power on its supply grid by November this year after Zesa Holdings (Zesa) has expunged a US$40 million debt owed to Namibian state-owned electricity company NamPower, Energy minister Elton Mangoma said. The US$40 million is in respect of a February 2007 deal in which NamPower gave Zesa a loan to refurbish its Hwange Thermal ...
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Resources Graft and Africas Curse
AFRICAN countries have often been accused of turning conferences into talk shops which fail to come up with meaningful policy proposals and resolutions to tackle the myriad of problems bedevilling the continent, including poverty, disease and human rights abuses. Throughout the year, different countries on the continent play host to various international gatherings -- from the African Union ...
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Trevor Ncube Deplores Media Repression
ALPHA Media Holdings chairman Trevor Ncube has deplored the continuing state of media repression and restrictions in Zimbabwe, saying this is inimical to the free flow of information and sharing of vibrant ideas necessary to drive forward development in the country. Speaking at a Sapes Trust policy dialogue forum on Media Freedom in Harare last night, Ncube said it was deplorable that the ...
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Frontier Markets Need to Cease the Moment
Global recession has led to slow growth in most developed economies. Leading economies as the US, Japan and the Eurozone are still to recover fully from a meltdown that began with a financial sector crisis in 2008. Developed economy central banks have responded with aggressive monetary policy tools. Central banks have been increasing money supply in the hope that cheaper, more abundant money ...
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Zimbabwe Zanu-PF Infighting Now Vicious Cycle
ZANU PF factionalism is now increasingly becoming a vicious cycle - those recently appointed to investigate renewed infighting have become entangled in the problem as they now also stand accused of fanning the internal strife. Following the eruption of fresh clashes in Bulawayo and Manicaland, the Zanu PF politburo appointed a team comprising party national chairperson Simon Khaya Moyo, ...
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Zimbabwe Zimbabwe - Election Dynamics and Scenarios
As the Global Political Agreement (GPA) staggers to an end, continued violations of the agreement, reform deficits, limited institutional credibility and the rejection of a UN election needs assessment mission underscore the continued absence of conditions for peaceful and credible elections despite the new constitution adopted in March 2013. President Robert Mugabe has been forced to step back ...
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RBZ Demands Microfinance Bill Should Be Amended
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) and registered microfinance institutions (MFIs) have called on parliament's budget and finance committee to support on a host of amendments to policies governing operations of microfinance institutions aimed at protecting the public. This follows a series of incidences which saw members of the public losing their cash to unscrupulous MFIs who were taking ...
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Stockbrokers Express Concern Over Bill
Stockbrokers have expressed concern with a clause in the new Securities Amendment Bill, passed in the lower house of parliament this week, relating to the corpus of the investor protection fund amid fears it could increase operating costs. The bill was passed on Tuesday without amendments but stockbrokers felt there was still need to consult further on this particular clause relating to the ...
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Zimbabwe National Food Policy Launched
THE national nutrition situation is of major concern to Government as one in three children is chronically malnourished, President Mugabe has said. Officially launching the Food and Nutrition Security Policy and its implementation plan in Harare yesterday, the President attributed the situation to several exogenous factors, among them recurrent and intermittent droughts and the effects of the ...
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