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Harare-In a twist of events, Mary Chiwenga (nee Mubaiwa) the embattled wife of Vice President Constantino Chiwenga has been charged with attempted murder. According to charges brought before the Harare Magistrate Court, Mary is accused of plotting to kill the former Army General. The state alleges that Mary tried to kill her husband by unplugging […]

Harare-The Government announced that it now charges citizens living in the Diaspora in U.S. dollars for production of passports as it is currently battling to clear a huge passport backlog due to foreign currency shortages. According to the Government the backlog currently stood at 359,288 as of August this year. The Registrar General is facing […]

Harare-There was chaos in Zimbabwe Parliament on Wednesday as opposition legislators blocked their Zanu PF counterparts from debating the 2020 budget statement. The opposition legislators were seeking an explanation over Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube’s mathematical gaffe over the amount of money that the Chinese had injected in the country’s economy. Business was brought to a […]

Zimbabwe’s ruling Zanu-PF party will transfer ownership of the palatial home in which the late President Robert Mugabe lived in the capital, Harare, to his family, the state-owned Herald newspaper has quoted a party official as saying. The “clarification” by Zanu-PF’s secretary for administration Obert Mpofu followed speculation that the party intended to turn Mugabe’s […]

By Tendai Mugabe Nouakchott, Mauritania — Government has so far recovered US$850 million out of the US$1, 4 billion illegally externalised by corporates and individuals following a three-month moratorium given by President Mnangagwa upon his assumption of office in November last year. The amnesty was part of broader measures implemented by President Mnangagwa’s administration to […]

Two people have died of their injuries after an explosion at a Zimbabwe presidential campaign rally. The Chronicle newspaper said officials at Mpilo hospital confirmed the deaths. The blast which went off shortly after President Emmerson Mnangagwa addressed a stadium crowd in Bulawayo has been called an assassination attempt. At least 49 people were injured, […]

Movement for Democratic Change Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has been derided for saying that hitmen are after him. According to the Daily News, Chamisa told a rally in Victoria Falls that he had gathered intelligence that President Emmerson Mnangagwa had put together a team of security agents to snoop on him and their brief included […]