The Zimbabwe government has launched an astonishing attack on the country's Catholic bishops after the bishops issued a pastoral letter critical of the government. Zimbabwe’s minister of information publicity and broadcasting services, Monica Mutsvangwa lashed out at the bishops: “Ahead of the Catholic Sunday Mass, the government of Zimbabwe draws the attention of the national Catholic congregation shards of a pastoral letter issued under the misguided if evil minded leadership of the Archbishop of Harare,” she said. Mutsvangwa said the government vehemently object to and strongly condemns the pastoral letter of Archbishop Robert Ndlovu of Harare and his coterie of Catholics Bishop prelates. The Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops Conference dispatched a stinging pastora
Opposition MDC-T leader Thokozani Khupe has claimed that there is no legitimacy crisis in Zimbabwe and told South African envoys to concentrate on allegations of human rights abuses. On Monday, South Africa’s Sydney Mufamadi and former National Assembly Speaker Baleka Mbete visited Zimbabwe to assess reports of human rights violations perpetrated by President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s under-fire administration. MDC-T spokesperson Khaliphani Phugeni told the Daily News that the envoys had to address issues of human rights only adding that there was no legitimacy crisis in Zimbabwe. It is that contestation which has brought polarisation in the country and impending development. It is not fair to contest the President’s legitimacy when the courts ruled in his favour.
SOME MDC Alliance bigwigs are said to be making a determined push to have the coalition's firebrand deputy national chairperson, Job "Wiwa" Sikhala, expelled for his radical political activities and dogged opposition to Zanu-PF and its government. So bad is the situation said to have become for Sikhala, that sources told the Daily News last night, that some of his comrades were even hoping that authorities would manage to fish him out from his current hideout. Sikhala has been in hiding ever since authorities started cracking down on the leaders of last month's failed mass demonstrations. The sources who spoke to the Daily News said senior Alliance officials had recently discussed Sikhala's jettisoning in the party's standing committee (SC) WhatsApp group
The High Court has dismissing the urgent bid by 14 MDC Alliance legislators to stop MDC-T from replacing them in Parliament following their recall. The 14 contested the 2018 harmonised elections on the MDC Alliance ticket. But the courts early this year ruled that the MDC-A was an electoral bloc formed by seven political parties in August 2017 to contest the 2018 harmonised elections not a political party. Thus any of the seven parties has the legal right under the Constitution to recall and replace those it nominated on the combined bloc list. The MDC-T was the largest party in the MDC-A bloc, but the Supreme Court has found after a civil action that changes in the leadership since 2014 were not in accordance with the party’s own rules and nullified those changes, which
ZIMDANCEHALL icon Winky D has disclosed that the country’s music industry was in a serious crisis due to the impact of COVID-19, whose lockdown measures have included the prohibition of public gatherings. For the majority of musicians in Zimbabwe, public live shows have traditionally been their major income stream. Winky D’s manager Jonathan Banda said to a greater extent, Zimbabwe was lagging behind in terms of the requisite technology for ideal online shows. “The development model we all try to follow is what they call modernisation. If you are looking at Zimbabwe, we are trying to catch up, we are trying to replace whatever it is which is in place, the infrastructure technology, and we are still growing in terms of such things that’s the honest truth,&rd
Activist, Hopewell Chin’ono’s case has taken a new twist after the state made a fresh application seeking to remove his lawyer, Beatrice Mtetwa from representing him after she commented on a matter before the courts. According to the state, Mtetwa disrespected the court by posting matters which are before the court on her Facebook page. The state led by Whisper Mabhaudhi and Ms Tendai Shonhai read the comments which they alleged they were posted by Mtetwa in reference to Chin’ono’s case. The court then ordered Chin’ono who is the chief witness in the matter to take the witness stand where he tried to exonerate Mtetwa and claimed the Facebook account in question is a ghost one. He also claimed that the Facebook page actually belonged to a documentary
THIEVES broke into the United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH) and stole seven plasma television sets that were mounted at the health facility’s private ward. The thieves are said to have taken advantage of the absence of security guards manning the premises to raid the ward. The theft is said to have occurred between Friday and Tuesday morning and was discovered on Tuesday by hospital authorities. The hospital has a few patients after UBH was designated as Covid-19 centre while non-Covid-19 patients were transferred to Mpilo Central Hospital. The move was done to minimise the risk of non-Covid-19 patients from contracting the virus if they mixed with positive ones. UBH is serving a temporal Covid-19 treatment centre while renovations at Thorngrove Infectious Disease Hospital, Ek
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President Emmerson Mnangagwa's daughter was reportedly detained at Mazowe police station after it emerged that she was part of the rampant illegal mining. Chido Mnangagwa who is one of ED's children is being sucked in corrupt mining deals and is reported to have been nabbed for riverbed mining with highly placed sources saying the call was made by Vice President Constantino Chiwenga though the case was later swept under the carpet. According to the source, the arrest of Chido came a few days after Home Affairs Minister Kazembe Kazembe and Mines Minister Winston Chitando toured the Mazowe River area to assess the state of illegal mining activities by the Chinese. "Chido who is ED's daughter was arrested earlier this week (Monday) for her involvement in riverbed min
The year 2020 has not been a good year for Nelson Chamisa the leader of a heavily fractured MDC A as he presides over a breaking up party. Nelson Chamisa had rode on the lightning of firm and glory as he became a household name in Zimbabwe. He became a charismatic leader whose lies could not cost him his position as a party president. He lost narrowly to the current Zimbabwean president Emmerson Mnangagwa. In all fairness to the young man Chamisa has achieved more than Tsvangirai in his first attempt to the presidency. But as fate would have its way CHamisa's grip on power was loosened by a Supreme Court rulling he himself had appealed. He lost a struggle of power contest to Thokozani Khupe indeed with the help of Mwonzora and Morgan Komichi. Chamisa was blamed by his youthful ba
