VICE-PRESIDENT Joice Mujuru (pictured) has slammed senior Zanu PF officials fuelling infighting through succession battles driven by their presidential ambitions, saying they should respect the party hierarchy — remarks seen as directed at her bitter rival, Defence minister Emmerson Mnangagwa.
THE military and police chiefs have launched a spirited campaign on behalf of President Robert Mugabe and Zanu PF ahead of the next do-or-die elections to regain ground lost to the MDC parties in the last polls.
GOVERNMENT will introduce a policy framework to reduce banks’ inflated interest rates, currently hovering between 15% and 25%, Finance minister Tendai Biti has said.
THE Comptroller and Auditor-General, Mildred Chiri, has found the government ministries’ accounting systems for 2010 shambolic, with constant breakdowns of the system leading to transactions being processed outside the system.
ACCUSATIONS and counter-accusations between Mashonaland Central governor Martin Dinha and party heavyweights, in the province including Vice President Joice Mujuru, are intensifying as infighting spreads.
FINANCE Minister Tendai Biti (pictured) yesterday blasted Chinese company, Anjin Investments, for not contributing anything to the fiscus and questioned the firm’s shareholding structure.
THE security sector, particularly the army, is increasingly manoeuvring into the country’s mining terrain, making footprints in the Marange diamond fields and right across the Great Dyke into remote areas.
ZIMBABWE’S new governance charter will tackle the contentious succession debate with two vice presidents being appointed based on seniority to provide certainty compared to the current situation open to manipulation.
COPAC still needs a further US$35 million to complete the constitution-making process, including holding of the referendum, over and above the US$45 million it has already gobbled.
ZIMBABWE’S new governance charter will tackle the contentious succession debate with two vice presidents being appointed based on seniority to provide certainty compared to the current situation open to manipulation.
THE cash-strapped Bulawayo City Council is proposing to slash workers’ salaries by 20% to service a loan used to purchase luxury vehicles for senior officials after a local bank threatened to attach some of its buildings.
ZIMBABWE’S growing reliance on food imports, particularly from regional countries such as Zambia and Malawi, is testimony to the country’s general regression over the years blamed on the government’s policy failures by players within the agricultural sector, the mainstay of the economy.
BRITAIN’S Ambassador to Zimbabwe Deborah Bronnert (pictured) says she does not see her country funding Zimbabwe’s land reform programme in the near future despite an agreement by the three political parties to Zimbabwe’s Global Political Agreement for the country’s former coloniser to pay compensation for land acquired during the chaotic land reform exercise.
AS Zimbabwe prepares for elections either this year or next year, Zimbabwe Independent reporter Herbert Moyo (HM) interviewed the Organ on National Healing, Reconciliation and Integration co-chairperson Sekai Holland (SH) on what has been done so far to heal scars of political violence and brutality before the polls. Find below excerpts of the interview:
