Owen Gagare

PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe is intensely lobbying Sadc leaders ahead of a crucial summit in Luanda, Angola, to secure regional consensus before he can call for elections possibly by December despite raging disputes over the Global Political Agreement (GPA) and botched constitution-making process.

Faith Zaba/Owen Gagare

GOVERNMENT has come up with a collective position on the US$750 million Essar deal aimed at reviving defunct steelmaking giant Ziscosteel after a heated high-profile meeting on Tuesday.

Wongai Zhangazha

A REPORT by the Comptroller and Auditor-General has cited financial irregularities in several government ministries including the Defence ministry which failed to account for about US$18 million for the financial year-ended December 31 2010.

Brian Chitemba

BULAWAYO town clerk Middleton Nyoni, housing director Isaiah Magagula and his finance director Kempton Ndimande have been branded incompetent by the council and blamed for deteriorating service delivery and the city’s ballooning debt totalling over US$56 million.

PRIME Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and South African President Jacob Zuma yesterday came under attack at the World Federation of Democratic Youth General Council Meeting being hosted by the Zanu PF Youth League in Harare.

Faith Zaba

FORMER Mozambican president Joaquim Chissano (pictured) yesterday called on former liberation war heroes like President Robert Mugabe to consider transferring power to a new generation of leaders.

Paidamoyo Muzulu

CIVIL society organisations have warned the country is not ready to hold credible, free and fair elections until reforms have been implemented and electoral conditions improved.

Tendai Marima

UNITED Nations (UN) Human Rights Commissioner Navanethem Pillay’s visit to Zimbabwe has raised uproar, with government and civil society groups clashing on issues ranging from her itinerary to the content of their briefings which have shown they are worlds apart on the state of human rights in the country.

Paidamoyo Muzulu

THE Agriculture and Rural Development Authority (Arda) decimated its beef herd  from an all time high of 36 000 head in 1998 to a paltry 1 062 in 2012 through forced sales to newly resettled A2 farmers when some of its ranches were parcelled out under the land reform programme, parliament has heard.

Tendai Marima

FINANCE minister Tendai Biti has strongly criticised the military for its involvement in mineral extraction in the country.  Biti questioned the military’s role in Anjin Investments, a shadowy network of Chinese businessmen and Zimbabwe’s  military chiefs, saying their deals were not transparent and lacked accountability.

Elias Mambo

ZANU PF officials in Masvingo have said the party was shooting itself in the foot by barring former provincial chairman Daniel Shumba (pictured) from contesting in primary elections.

Wongai Zhangazha

WHEN Zimbabweans went to the polls in 2008, Tawana Mabwe was only 17 years old and could not vote. Now she is 21, has enrolled at university and has gained political consciousness. The problem now is she is not a registered voter.

Herbert Moyo

GODFREY Madanhire left his teaching job in Zimbabwe in 2000, at a time  when the country was in the economic doldrums, to pursue a better life in the proverbial greener pastures of South Africa.

ZIMBABWE’S relations with the United Kingdom have been strained since Britain refused to fund the government’s chaotic land reform programme from 2000 which saw thousands of white commercial farmers being displaced and the country’s agricultural output plummeting.

Faith Zaba

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.