Owen Gagare

THE negotiators of the Global Political Agreement (GPA) have completed their task and have written to the Sadc-appointed mediator in the Zimbabwean crisis, South African President Jacob Zuma, asking him to tackle the principals on the implementation of the outstanding issues of the pact and the election roadmap.

Brian Chitemba

THE US$40 million Distressed and Marginalised Areas Fund (DIMAF) allocated to resuscitate ailing Bulawayo firms is a drop in the ocean compared to the financial requirements of the closed companies, the Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries said this week.

CONCERNS over Zimbabwe’s indigenisation programme are stalling the country’s efforts to lure independent power producers (IPPs), who are desperately needed to lift Zimbabwe’s electrical power output, which is critical to the revival of the country’s industry and economy.

Faith Zaba/Wongai Zhangazha

THE inquest into former army commander General Solomon Mujuru’s death ended this week at the Magistrate’s Court, with sharper contradictions and inconsistencies, deepening suspicions of foul play. Harare magistrate Walter Chikwanha  ruled that it was not his responsibility to order Mujuru’s exhumation after a  request by Mujuru’s family to have the remains of one of Zimbabwe’s most decorated soldiers re-examined.

Wongai Zhangazha

A SOUTH African police forensic analyst said it could be possible that accelerants or inflammable materials were present at the fire which gutted the late General Solomon Mujuru’s farmhouse in Beatrice last year.

Owen Gagare

PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe’s sense of insecurity is deepening as he fears that Western nations are planning military intervention in Zimbabwe as they did in Libya and Ivory Coast, particularly after the next elections whose outcome is likely to be hotly-disputed.

ALPHA Media Holdings (AMH), the publishers of NewsDay, The Zimbabwe Independent and the Standard, on Thursday appointed award-winning investigative journalist Dumisani Muleya as the editor of the Independent with effect from Wednesday.

Wongai Zhangazha

A PROBE into the accident which claimed the life of former Zanu PF national commissar Elliot Manyika (pictured) in 2008 has concluded that there was no foul play in his death.

Herbert Moyo

ZIMBABWE Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) has warned Copac against producing a draft constitution that maintains unfettered power in the hands of the executive and emasculates other organs of government, including the legislature and judiciary.

Nduduzo Tshuma

ZANU PF factions are sucked in a race to capitalise on the swelling popularity of Mines minister Obert Mpofu in Matabeleland following the Umguza legislator’s attraction of a huge crowd at his weekend birthday and graduation party in Nyamandlovu last Saturday.

IN our businessdigest article titled “Restoration of RBZ’s lender status crucial” in the January 27 issue of the Zimbabwe Independent, Economics lecturer Prof Tony Hawkins was quoted as saying confidence in the financial sector would not be restored as long as the Central Bank remained dysfunctional. We have since established that the words were erroneously attributed to him and sincerely apologise for any inconvenience this might have caused him.

Faith Zaba

THE inquest into former army commander General Solomon Mujuru’s death has entered its third week at Harare Magistrates’ Court and Zimbabweans are still puzzled as to the cause of the fire which burnt one of the most decorated liberation war heroes to ashes.

Owen Gagare

PRIME Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has all but given up on the implementation of the Global Political Agreement amid indications that some of the pact negotiators have grown weary after haggling over virtually the same issues since the coalition government was formed in 2009.

Wongai Zhangazha

THE family of the late retired army commander, General Solomon Mujuru, is not convinced that the charred remains found at his gutted Beatrice farmhouse were those of the decorated liberation war hero since the police had not positively identified the remains at the time a public announcement was made.

Paidamoyo Muzulu

NEWLY elected Zanu PF Mashonaland West provincial chairman John Mafa has set his sights on claiming the party’s national commissar and Information minister Webster Shamu’s Chegutu East seat in the forthcoming party primaries.