Unlicensed kombi conductor jailed

Court Reporter
AN unlicensed commuter omnibus conductor who knocked down a nine-year-old girl, resulting in the minor sustaining a fractured arm and bruises was last week sentenced to an effective three months in prison.

Chairman acquitted

Court Reporter
AN MDC-T Chitungwiza Ward 24 chairperson who was facing charges of assaulting a relative of one of the party’s aspiring councillors, accusing her of forging names of people on the electoral college was last week acquitted.

Illegal voter registration backfires

From Abel Zhakata in Mutare
FOUR suspected MDC-T activists yesterday appeared before a Mutare magistrate facing charges of unlawfully conducting voter education without authority from the Zimbabwe Election Commission.

Tongai Muzenda: It runs in the family

Fortious Nhambura
It runs in the family. He is in politics to keep his late father Vice President Simon Muzenda’s vision for Gutu and the country alive.
Forty-seven-year old Cde Tongai Muzenda wants to leave an indelible mark on Gutu West and Masvingo.

MDC-T manifesto founded on crisis

Rangu Nyamurundira

Egypt is in renewed crisis, after we thought its “Arab Spring” had facilitated the return of democracy. The year-old democracy now sees the people embark on a new spring, albeit coup, against an incumbent democratically elected president, Mohamed Morsi, who is the product of their freely expressed political will.

Zanu-PF oils victory machine

Makomborero Mutimukulu

The Zanu-PF juggernaut can also be complacent, sickeningly complacent. Zimbabwe’s history is laden with examples of what the liberation party is capable of achieving when it pulls together in one direction.

No room for lone rangers

Johannes Chinotimba

The late outspoken Zanu-PF leader Cde Eddison Zvobgo used to warn fellow party members that no matter how much they are frustrated, quitting the party should never be an option. This was apt advice for those who recently filed their papers with the Nomination Court to contest as independents.

Editorial Comment: Why be workers when we can own it all?

Historically the study of geography was for different reasons for different races in this country. The colonisers came into the country as explorers and they traversed the length and breadth of the country seeking minerals, largely gold, so that they could improve their lot back home.

Unpacking Zanu-PF’s poll campaign theme

Kurai Prosper Musenyama

Friday July 5, 2013 was a historic day for Zimbabwe as it heralded the official launch of the Zanu-PF election campaign and Party manifesto by the Head of State and Government and Commander-in-Chief of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces President Mugabe at the Zimbabwe Grounds in Highfield, Harare.

Secret laws, secret govt

Patrick Martin

THE secret court that hears applications for wiretapping and other forms of electronic surveillance, under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, has issued secret rulings that vastly expand the spy powers of the National Security Agency, according to a report Sunday in the New York Times .

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