President Emmerson Mnangagwa and members of the Cabinet are set to follow Vice President CDG Chiwenga’s lead in getting vaccinated against the Covid-19 pandemic. Vice President Chiwenga took the lead when he volunteered to be the first in the country to be vaccinated against the novel virus with the controversial Chinese Sinopharm vaccine. iHarare learned from The Chronicle that President Mnangagwa and his Cabinet will get the Sinopharm vaccine jab when the second batch of the vaccines arrive in the country in two weeks time. The president dispelled widespread rumors doing rounds on social media that the Sinopharm vaccine was not safe and that the country’s leadership was not going to get vaccinated. He said pressing government business prevented him from officiatin
Musician-cum preacher and politician Hosiah Chipanga has revived efforts to meet and have a conversation with President Emmerson Mnangagwa, saying that he has to deliver a message from God that will save the country from turmoil. Chipanga told TellZim News in an interview that the country has derailed from God’s path and was now isolated in a wilderness marked with endless suffering. He said the country lost its direction beginning from the days of former president Robert Mugabe to the ‘new dispensation’ which has done nothing to remedy the ‘curse’ that has befallen the country. “For the past 40 years, I have tried all means known to me to meet the President of my country both the late and the current one to no avail. “It is true that tho
Vice President Kembo Mohadi has furiously denied sexual misconduct allegations against him following the release of a series of audios in which he is purportedly asking for sexual favours from his subordinates, who include married women. At a press conference held on Wednesday, the Vice President said that the allegations levelled against him are false and part of a well-orchestrated plot to demean and soil his image. Mohadi said that the audio clips which are currently circulating on social media are a result of “voice cloning,” and that he is an innocent victim of “political machinations.” Curiously in the same statement, the Vice President said that his private communications have been hacked. Mohadi also insisted that he is not going to step down from his
Vice President Kembo Mohadi was left nursing wounds after being bashed over an extramarital affair with a married female Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) agent who works in his office. According to ZimLive sources, Mohadi was on Sunday left bleeding after a raucous showdown with Jacob Mumpande, Abigail’s husband, who was accusing him of dating his wife. Mumpande together with his wife allegedly stormed the 71-year-old’s Milcox Road residence in Glen Lorne after learning of the affair. It is also alleged that, an unidentified woman who was with Mohadi inside his Harare home got so angry at the discovery that he was seeing another woman she hit the vice president with an object, possibly a shoe, which caused him to bleed from the head, following the confrontation
THE Covid-19 pandemic has paralysed government amid reports that Vice-Presidents Constantino Chiwenga and Kembo Mohadi are unwell, while President Emmerson Mnangagwa spent 14 days in self-isolation in Harare after his close security details, cabinet ministers and top bureaucrats tested positive. This means that the country was left on auto-pilot as there was no acting President. Mnangagwa had to cut short his annual leave. Information gathered by the Zimbabwe Independent from senior government and intelligence sources indicates that Mnangagwa's co-deputies are ill. Top businessman and presidential advisor, Kuda Tagwirei, is also battling the deadly virus. Mohadi, acted as president before disappearing from the public scene as he was taken ill. It was not immediately clear if C
Zimbabwe’s Foreign Affairs and International Trade Minister, Retired Lieutenant General Sibusiso Busi Moyo has died. Moyo succumbed to COVID-19 in Harare on Wednesday morning. He was 61. In a statement announcing Moyo’s death, the Acting Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet, George Charamba described the late as a decorated soldier and freedom fighter. Said Charamba: His Excellency the President, Cde E.D. Mnangagwa, regrets to announce the passing on early this morning of Dr S.B. Moyo, our Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Trade. The late Minister succumbed to Covid-I9 at a local hospital. The Nation will be kept apprised of further developments regarding this untimely demise of the late Minister, himself a decorated soldier and freedom fighte
ECONOMIC Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema has criticised the closure, this week, of South Africa's borders including the Beitbridge Border Post saying the decision was self-hate. The Beitbridge Border Post and at least other 20 other South African borders have been closed to minimise the risk of spreading the Covid-19 pandemic. Addressing a virtual press conference on Thursday, Malema said the closure of the borders announced by South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa was an irresponsible act and called on SADC citizens to find "creative" ways to enter the country. "We condemn the leadership of SADC for failing to mitigate the needs of our people in times of cross border travel particularly at the Beitbridge border. The closing of borders around SADC,
Skeletons are now tumbling in the MDC-T party amid allegations that Mr Douglas Mwonzora, the runaway winner in Sunday’s disputed party presidential elections, misused nearly $6 million of party funds. However, Mr Mwonzora who polled 883 votes to Dr Khupe’s miserly 118 votes, to become the main opposition party president said the allegations are unfounded and meant to tarnish his name. Mr Mwonzora and Dr Khupe were slugging it out against Messrs Morgen Komichi and Elias Mudzuri who respectively got nine and 14 votes in a poll marred by violence including verbal and physical attacks on the former deputy prime minister. The victory of Mr Mwonzora has, however, turned to be a bitter pill to swallow for the losing candidates who want him arrested for allegedly abusing party
Thokozani Khupe has said she regrets ever working with Douglas Mwonzora in the opposition MDC-T after the party’s Supreme Court-sanctioned congress which Mwonzora won turned violent on Sunday. Khupe accuses Mwonzora of being the instigator of the chaos and also of manipulating the electoral process in his favour. The former deputy to the late party’s founding leader, Morgan Tsvangirai has been working with Mwonzora since March this year when the Supreme Court ordered the party to hold an Extraordinary Congress to elect the substantive successor to Tsvangirai. The Supreme Court, like the High Court, had ruled that Nelson Chamisa who leads the rival MDC Alliance was not the legitimate leader of the party after he reportedly attained the presidency unconstitutionally followi
MDC-T Secretary-General Douglas Mwonzora was declared the party’s new president following a violent and chaotic election which was held at the Harare International Conference Centre (HICC) over the weekend. The MDC-T party held an Extra-Ordinary Congress (EOC) to choose a new substantive leader to succeed the late Morgan Richard Tsvangirai after the courts declared that Nelson Chamisa was not the legitimate leader of the party. However, the election which pitted acting President Thokozani Khupe against Mwonzora and senators Elias Mudzuri and Morgen Komichi degenerated into a farce as the other three candidates accused Mwonzora of rigging the elections. A disgruntled Mudzuri walked out of the process saying that he would not endorse a fraudulent election. Khupe and Komichi ha
