admin‘PM seeks to deny citizens right to vote’
Lovemore Chikova News Editor
Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai is seeking to disenfranchise Zimbabweans of their right to choose their leaders by filing an application in the Constitutional Court to extend the voting date for the harmonised elections from July 31, President Mugabe said yesterday. In his heads of arguments in the case in which he is cited as the first respondent
Special voting dates announced
Felex Share Herald Reporter
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission has set July 14 and 15 as the days on which special voting will take place in 209 polling stations that have been set up countrywide for the exercise. Special voting, done in terms of Section 81A of the Electoral Act (Chapter 2:13), is meant to afford those who would be on duty on voting day the chance to cast their
Zanu-PF to launch manifesto on Friday
Takunda Maodza Senior Reporter
ZANU-PF is set to launch its election campaign and manifesto at the historic Zimbabwe Grounds in Highfield, Harare on Friday. The date and venue were decided in the wake of recommendations to the party hierarchy by the Zanu-PF national elections directorate. “The national elections directorate recommended that it be launched at the Zimbabwe
Zimpapers speaks on political adverts
Peter Matambanadzo Senior Reporter
THE Zimbabwe Newspapers Group board of directors has resolved that
Tsvangirai bunks Cabinet, hits campaign trail
From George Maponga in MASVINGO
MDC-T leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai, who has been lobbying for poll
43 MDC-T members defect to Zanu-PF
Bulawayo BureauAt least 43 MDC-T members from Makokoba constituency in Bulawayo yesterday defected to Zanu-PF in protest over alleged imposition of candidates by the party leaders. The defectors were welcomed by Zanu-PF Politburo member and National Assembly candidate for Makokoba, Rtd Col Tshinga Dube, Central Committee member Cde Molly Mpofu and
Zanu-PF mourns one of its founding members
Herald ReporterOne of Zanu-PF’s founding members, Cde William Murombo Chirenje, has died. Cde Chirenje succumbed to diabetes and hypertension complications on Monday at BS Leon Trust in Harare. He was 76. Cde Chirenje is survived by his wife Runyararo Magadzire, five children and eight grandchildren. Cde Chirenje will be buried in Chirenje village under Chief
Govt to pay US$5,3m to college lecturers
Felex Share Herald ReporterGovernment has been ordered to pay a combined US$5,3 million in relocation expenses and interest to the 18 college lecturers it unilaterally transferred last year over various offences. The lecturers successfully challenged their transfers over allegations that included participating in an industrial action. The Labour Court then ordered Government,
UNWTO assembly theme song announced
Problem Masau Entertainment CorrespondentA COLLABORATION by Zimbabwe’s top musicians Suluman Chimbetu, Audius Mtawarira, Chiwoniso Maraire, Albert Nyathi and Mono Mukundu was declared the winner of the United Nations World Tourism Organisation assembly theme song competition. The song produced by Russel Madamombe, topped 37 other entries. For their effort, the musicians
Policeman beaten by mob
Callie-Lou Kakwere and Stanely Mushava Herald ReportersA policeman was yesterday beaten by a crowd that accused him of causing an accident in which a disabled woman was knocked down by a fleeing commuter omnibus that plies the City-Mufakose route in Harare. Witnesses said the commuter omnibus driver was trying to evade arrest at the corner of Chinhoyi Street and Albion Avenue in the city centre when