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Why Zimbabwe has a ‘Minister of WhatsApp’

A spoof government notice hit social media as soon as President Robert Mugabe announced he had set up a new ministry responsible for Cyber Security, Threat Detection and Mitigation. Zimbabweans reacted with customary humour to the letter, which faked the signature and
October 28, 2017

POLITICAL activist Fadzayi Mahere arrested over soccer tournament

POLITICAL activist and Harare lawyer Advocate Fadzayi Mahere was arrested as she attended a sports tournament she had reportedly organised. Mahere has indicated she will contest next year’s elections as an independent candidate in the Mt Pleasant parliamentary constituency. Witnesses a police
October 28, 2017

MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai health update

HARARE: Opposition MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai has flown to South Africa for medical care, a party official told AFP on Saturday, as concerns grow over his health ahead of next year’s election. Tsvangirai, a former prime minister and veteran opponent of President
October 28, 2017

Fadzayi Mahere has been arrested

Fadzayi Mahere is a Zimbabwean advocate of the High Court and Supreme Court of Zimbabwe. She’s also a political activist who has been very vocal in her opposition to Zanu-PF governance since about 2015. She has been one of the most prominent members of #ThisFlag Movement.
October 28, 2017

Sungura ace Alick Macheso out of UK show

SUNGURA maestro Alick Macheso is no longer part of the bill for a UK show featuring Chimurenga guru Thomas Mukanya Mapfumo, it has emerged. Macheso was supposed to join the US-based Mukanya for the show this Saturday at Athena Hall in Leicester.
October 28, 2017

President Mugabe gets honorary doctorate

Lupane State University has conferred an Honourary Doctorate of Agricultural Sciences to President Robert Mugabe for his outstanding work in promoting the growth of agriculture in the country. The conferment was held at ten LSU graduation ceremony this Friday afternoon. LSU Vice
October 28, 2017

Saviour Kasukuwere goes for Mnangagwa again

The Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front, which is going for a special congress in December, has suspended four top officials from Masvingo and the Midlands in a move seen as targeted at Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Party national commissar, Saviour Kasukuwere, one of
October 28, 2017

Zimbabwe: CBZ Bank Hit With U.S.$385 Million Penalty

ZIMBABWE’s biggest bank by asset base, CBZ Bank, has been slapped with a staggering US$3,8 billion fine by the United States Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (Ofac) for thousands of financial transactions done on behalf of ZB Bank then under economic
October 28, 2017

Emmerson Mnangagwa Hammered again

HARARE – Ray Goba has been shown the door as the country’s Prosecutor-General (PG), barely two months after assuming the high-profile position. President Robert Mugabe rescinded Goba’s confirmation as PG yesterday, in a move seen as a direct attack on Vice President
October 28, 2017

President Mugabe axes top Mnangagwa allies

UNDER Fire Vice president Emmerson Mnangagwa suffered a huge blow Friday after the ruling Zanu PF party suspended two of his top allies. Gokwe-Nembudziya Member of Parliament, Justice Wadyajena, and Zanu PF’s Masvingo provincial chairperson Ezra Chadzamira were banned from ruling party
October 28, 2017
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