Category Archives: Press reports
Government Chief Whip castigates MDC’s Coltart
The Herald Herald Reporter GOVERNMENT Chief Whip Cde Joram Gumbo has castigated Bulawayo South MP Mr David Coltart (MDC) for misleading the House of Assembly on the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights (ACHPR) position on the human rights situation in Zimbabwe. Cde Gumbo told the Assembly on Thursday that contrary to claims by […]
Spend this note like it’s going out of fashion
Sydney Morning Herald By Rochelle Mutton in Johannesburg THE problem with Zimbabwean money is that in the hyper-inflated economy, notes have become worth less than the paper they’re printed on. To try to keep up with runaway inflation, Zimbabwe’s central bank has released a new $Z50,000 note. Word on the street is to spend it […]
MDC faction seizes control of parliamentary party
New Zimbabwe A faction of Zimbabwe’s opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) opposed to leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, has taken control of the parliamentary party and moved swiftly to appoint a new shadow cabinet. Paul Themba Nyathi, a spokesman for the faction led by Tsvangirai’s deputy, Gibson Sibanda, unveiled the new shadow cabinet in a statement […]
U.S. priorities dictate spread of democracy
Washington Post By Peter Baker WASHINGTON – Sitting in a prison cell halfway around the planet, an Egyptian opposition leader forced President Bush this month to confront the question of how serious he was when he vowed to devote his second term to “ending tyranny in our world.” Ayman Nour, who dared challenge Egypt’s authoritarian […]
EC ambassadors to tour Manicaland
The Herald FIFTEEN ambassadors of the European Union accredited to Zimbabwe and the Head of Delegation of the European Commission are this week visiting EU-funded projects in Manicaland Province. The visit, which is organised by the delegation of the EC, is taking the ambassadors to Rusape, Nyanga and Mutare, where several EU-funded projects are under […]
Now aristocrats will be evicted for living too close to Mugabe
Daily Telegraph (UK) Harare – Owners of property next to President Robert Mugabe’s retirement mansion have received written warning that their houses will be confiscated by the state. The move represents the first time Zimbabwe’s elite, both black and white, have suffered at first hand. Millions of Zimbabweans were affected by last year’s “clearances” of […]
Shoot to kill
Newsweek By Joshua Hammer Inside the hidden links between American big-game hunters and Zimbabwe’s Mugabe dictatorship Jocelyn Chiwenga is not a woman to be taken lightly. The wife of Gen. Constantine Chiwenga, commander-in-chief of Zimbabwe’s armed forces, Mrs. Chiwenga has earned a reputation in her own right as a vicious enforcer for President Robert Mugabe […]
Ncube not a natural
The Zimbabwean EDITOR – In a development that shocked many Zimbabweans a couple of years ago, the State owned daily newspaper, The Herald carried full page headline story which gave the profile of MDC Secretary-General, Professor Welshman Ncube. It was very rare for the state owned media to give positive coverage to anyone in the […]
Zimbabwe judges compromised by Mugabe’s largesse, say lawyers
Zimonline HARARE – Too many of Zimbabwe’s judges and magistrates have benefited from the government’s political largesse that the bench could not be deemed independent, local human rights lawyers and activists said yesterday. The lawyers and activists were reacting to a statement by Judge President Paddington Garwe, when he opened Zimbabwe’s legal year yesterday that […]
MDC banishes ‘rebels’
Zimbabwe Independent THE Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) national council yesterday passed a vote of no confidence in executive members of the pro-senate faction, barring them from carrying out party functions until the party congress next year. The resolution suspends deputy president Gibson Sibanda, secretary-general Welshman Ncube and his deputy Gift Chimanikire, treasurer Fletcher Dulini-Ncube, […]