HARARE, Zimbabwe – Government-employed doctors on Monday ignored a labor court ultimatum to return to work, saying they remain incapacitated by poor wages and inadequate health facilities. Justices Lawrence Murasi and Rodgers Manyangadze on Friday ordered doctors to report for duty within 48 hours. They declared the strike illegal and referred the dispute between the doctors and the government to arbitration within 14 days. Junior doctors have not reported for duty since Sept. 3, saying they no longer can support themselves on salaries of less than $200 a month as Zimbabwe’s economic crisis drags on. Senior doctors joined the strike last Thursday, with both groups also complaining that health facilities lack the equipment and medical supplies needed to treat patients. Dr
Police on Monday raided the headquarters of the Movement for Democratic Change led by Nelson Chamisa in the capital, Harare, following the discovery of helmets of uniformed forces in a nearby building. The police also searched all vehicles making their way into the city’s central business district amid serious security concerns by local people and arrested some MDC activists in connection with the helmets. Luke Tamborinyoka, head of the MDC communications department, said they were forced to shut down all operations as police “camped” at the party headquarters “without any apparent reason”. In a statement, the party said, “Armed police have laid siege at the MDC headquarters starting early this morning in what is clearly a choreographed attempt
Former first lady Grace Mugabe risks losing one of the properties that forms part of her family's sprawling residence in Harare's leafy suburb of Borrowdale - famously referred to as the Blue Roof - following a High Court ruling in June ordering the former first family to let go of that property. This comes as Grace is feeling the heat on number of fronts, including from artisanal miners who have moved onto her properties in Mazowe, in Mashonaland Central, following the recent move by authorities to allow people she had disposed of their land there to claim back. Grace risks losing all her properties in Mazowe – including her famed Gushungo dairy operations and top-notch school thereafter the government indicated that it could re-allocate the farms under her
THE spectre of factionalism that ultimately resulted in the fall of former President Robert Mugabe in November 2017 has returned to hound his successor President Emmerson Mnangagwa, Zimbabolivenews has learnt. Sources within Zanu PF the ethnic tensions between largely Zezuru and Karanga leaders with the party could explode into the public domain with the possibility Mnangagwa might be impeached. The latest round of factionalism in the ruling party reportedly pit Mnangagwa against his supposedly ailing second in command Vice President Constantino Chiwenga who is currently in China where he is receiving treatment. Chiwenga is according to sources now out of danger although his doctors have advised him to quit politics. “There is a vicious fight going on. Confidence in Mnang
Vice President, Rtd General Constantino Chiwenga, is increasingly set to finish off beleaguered President Emmerson Mnangagwa's presidential term, through a vicious military coup said to likely involve foreign hands and players, Spotlight Zimbabwe reported. According to diplomatic sources and a Zimbabwean banker now based abroad, hardline securocrats in Chiwenga's camp, now want him to be the country's president, and that he steps in to finish off Mnangagwa's term between 2020-2023, before handing over power to a successor of his choice, who will contest the next presidential plebiscite on a Zanu-PF ticket as a civilian leader, with the alleged blessing and orchestration of China. Chiwenga who is in Beijing seeking medical treatment for the past months, is
Fuel prices went up over the weekend, triggering price hikes of basic commodities and further worsening an economic calamity whose roots lie in a legitimacy crisis arising out of the stolen election of July 2018. Mr Mnangagwa must disembark from his high horse of arrogance and engage for dialogue with the people’s President, Advocate Nelson Chamisa. Morale is at a low ebb in all private and public institutions especially schools and hospitals. Villagers, urban dwellers, the old, school children and the vulnerable can barely make ends meet in the current crisis where prices and transport fares are going up several times in a single week. Meanwhile, the ED regime continues to bury its head in the sand even as fuel prices increase every week, further straining the lives of ordi
The Apostolic Faith Mission (AFM) in Zimbabwe has been in turmoil in the past two years than at any stage in its history in the country. I am not Christian and I hope this disclaimer will help. It means I do not subscribe to either faction and have been questioning the Christology of their activities, without fear or favour. It means I am an outsider, reading from the terraces. Today, I climb down the terraces to wade into the murky waters. I am there deep in it in a manner that going back is as good as going forward. I have observed this narrative for long. It is fact not fiction that the current stand-off in AFM is not about anything, but wealth, wealth and wealth. It is gospreneurship, the art of making money from the word of God. It is a complex struggle t
FORMER First Lady Grace Mugabe’s empire is teetering on the brink of collapse following reports that she will be stripped off powers to the US$7 million Mazowe Orphanage project that she had usurped,” Zim Morning Post can reveal. This publication understands that the orphanage is under the government’s microscope, on basis that the project was a donation to the Zimbabwean government funded by a Chinese grant. Grace, however turned the project into a personal investment contrary to the clauses of the government to government agreement. According to the agreement, she was supposed to be the patron, not the owner of the orphanage. Zim Morning Post can authoritatively report that the project which now houses the Grace Mugabe state-of-the-art junior and secondary s
20 REASONS WHY MUGABE’S LEGACY IS UNCONTESTED. I have been listening to many misguided Zimbabweans trying to tarnish the legacy of Robert Mugabe, in an attempt to cover up for their own dereliction and failures at playing their role in building Zimbabwe with the tools Mugabe equipped us with. Much of this indoctrination is driven by white propaganda [particularly South African and British media] that seeks to convince Africans that their only means of advancement is directly dependent on surrendering their sovereignty, culture, wealth and resources to western paternalism. Clearly, the white world hated Mugabe for refusing to submit to this western paternalism and him successfully piercing the veil of white superiority to emancipate black minds. Which led them to demand
AILING Vice President Constantino Chiwenga has reportedly banned his wife Mary from visiting and has shut out government security, zimbolivenews.com has learnt. Chiwenga is currently in China where he has been receiving treatment for an ailment believed to be linked to his esophagus that has since been replaced with a plastic one all the way to the stomach. High placed sources told Zimbolivenews.com that Chiwenga has since been admitted to a Chinese military hospital where only that country’s security is allowed. “If you hear government saying they have an idea of how he is, it would be a lie. When he left Zimbabwe after South Africa, the Vice President had security details from both the army and the police protection unit. “Chiwenga is in a military hos
