The MDC was due to hold its 20th Anniversary on Saturday at Rufaro Stadium, Harare, as the day for the National Memorial Service for the late President Robert Mugabe. As MDC, being a Pan-Africanist and social democratic party, consistent with our values of ubuntu, solidarity and empathy we have decided to postpone our 20th Anniversary Celebrations to the 28th September 2019 so as to allow the funeral proceedings and events not to compete with our Anniversary celebrations. This is in line with our values of ubuntu, solidarity and empathetic leadership. We had our differences, which are well documented and recorded, with the late President Mugabe, but this is not the time to rehash those differences. This is the time to join the former President’s relatives an
Finance and Economic Development Minister Professor Mthuli Ncube has called for patience among citizens, adding that reforms initiated by Government since late last year were beginning to show signs of economic transformation. He said it normally takes up to 18 months for economic recovery to become visible where austerity measures have been implemented. Prof Ncube said this in an interview with SABC News last week on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum (WEF) on Africa in Cape Town, which ended on Friday. With budget deficits now a thing of the past following the economic reforms being implemented under the Transitional Stabilisation Programme (TSP), Prof Ncube believes the economy has started to turn for the better. The TSP is a short-term economic blueprint that runs fr
President Mnangagwa has expressed surprise that some members of former President Robert Mugabe’s family are not in the country allegedly fearing persecution and were worried about being barred from attending the funeral of the veteran nationalist who passed away on Friday morning, The Herald heard yesterday. Patrick Zhuwao, Cde Mugabe’s nephew, is reportedly in “exile” fearing for his life. This emerged at the weekend as the Mugabe family engaged President Mnangagwa on logistics to give the former President his final rest. The family appointed Mr Leo Mugabe as its sole spokesperson. Deputy Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet Mr George Charamba, who is also the Presidential spokesperson, revealed that on Friday the Mugabe family and Zvimba ch
President Mnangagwa has assembled a delegation led by Vice President Kembo Mohadi, comprising former President Robert Mugabe’s family, the family of the former First Lady — the Marufus — and Zanu-PF officials to facilitate the repatriation of the national hero’s body from Singapore where he died last Friday. The President also wrote letters to the former statesman’s confidants, former Zambian president Kenneth Kaunda and Chinese President Xi Jingpin, officially notifying them of Cde Mugabe’s demise. Deputy Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet, who is also the Presidential spokesperson, Mr George Charamba, said on Friday morning President Mnangagwa and his Government assigned Vice President Mohadi to lead a delegation to S
SOME members of the once-powerful Zanu-PF's G40 faction who are in exile have taken to social media to mourn former President Robert Mugabe, once viewed as the godfather of the group vanquished after a military coup in November 2017 toppled the late ex-guerrilla leader.Mugabe died Friday morning a private hospital in Singapore. However, his former ministers in the G40 faction, who had come to be close to his wife, Grace, could not be close to each other after they were expelled from Zanu-PF with some fleeing into exile fearing arrest and death. However, the faction members took to the social media, especially Twitter to mourn their ‘icon' and share their grief. Former Higher Education Minister, Jonathan Moyo who is reported to be the brains behind G40 faction and all
Robert Mugabe and his wife Grace built up a huge personal fortune and property empire while their countrymen suffered in the starvation and grinding poverty that his brutal regime brought about. Mugabe, who died in Singapore today at the age of 95, owned a lavish 25-bedroom mansion in Harare and a luxury villa in Hong Kong while his playboy sons lived in luxury in Dubai and South Africa. Leaked diplomatic cables estimated the family wealth at more than $1billion, including six residences and a series of farms around the country. The controversial land seizures which the Zimbabwean President claimed would distribute land to poor black people also boosted the Mugabes’ own property empire, while causing economic crisis. The Mugabe mansion in Harare’s Borrowdale suburb
GOVERNMENT has dispelled social media reports it had opened doors for G40 kingpin and ex-Cabinet Minister Jonathan Moyo and other exiled members of the now decimated Zanu PF faction to return home for former President Robert Mugabe’s funeral. Generation 40, as the faction was commonly referred to, was a Zanu PF camp that was once fiercely opposed to then Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s ambitions to succeed Mugabe. The camp was seen as backing what had become an attempt by then First Lady Grace’s bid to take over from her husband, who succumbed to an undisclosed ailment in Singapore Friday at the age of 95. Other key members of the group that was involved in a nasty power scrap that was only undone by a military coup in November 2017 included Mugabe’s ne
Officials and family members are arguing over the arrangements for the burial of Robert Mugabe, the former Zimbabwean president who died in Singapore last week aged 95. High-ranking members of the ruling Zanu-PF party are understood to have told Mugabe’s close family that his remains should be interred at a hilltop monument outside Harare, the capital, following a ceremony at the nearby national stadium, where dozens of prominent African leaders would be present. However friends and allies of Mugabe’s second wife, Grace, have said that the late dictator made it clear he would prefer to be buried at his home town of Zvimba, about 60 miles from Harare, with only close relatives in attendance. They said that Mugabe, who was ousted in a military takeover in November 2017,
By A Correspondent- A Filabusi magistrate has been arrested for allegedly embezzling court funds amounting to $431. Mzingaye Ephraim Moyo (33), who is the resident magistrate in charge of Filabusi Magistrates’ Court, was not asked to plead when he appeared briefly before Gwanda regional magistrate, Mr Mark Dzira, facing a charge of criminal abuse of office. He was remanded out of custody to September 17 on $300 bail. Mr Dzira granted Moyo bail on condition that he reports every Friday at Filabusi Police Station, does not go to Filabusi Magistrates’ Court, surrenders his passport and does not interfere with State witnesses. The State did not oppose bail. Prosecuting, Miss Faith Mutukwa said Moyo received $431 from the clerk of court and converted the money to his o
World leaders mourned former President Robert Gabriel Mugabe who died in Singapore yesterday morning, describing him as a true pan-Africanist and liberation fighter. He was 95. Mugabe attended the formation of the then Organisation of African Unity in 1963, now African Union (AU) as an invitee. AU chairperson Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, who is also the President of Egypt, said: ‘‘It is with immense sadness that I learnt of the passing of Zimbabwe’s former President Robert Mugabe. My sincere condolences to his family and the Zimbabwean people as we mourn an iconic liberation fighter, pan-Africanist in the struggle for liberation and continental integration.’’ China, through its foreign Ministry spokesperson Geng Shuang, said Mugabe was an outstanding li
