VPs Chiwenga and Mohadi ill, forcing Mnangagwa to cut short annual leave after stint in self-isolation The Covid-19 pandemic has paralysed government amid reports that Vice-Presidents Constantino Chiwenga and Kembo Mohadi are unwell, while President Emmerson Mnangagwa spent 14 days in self-isolation in Harare after his close security details, cabinet […]
President Emmerson Mnangagwa says he is in “low spirits” as he buried two national heroes while mourning key ally, Foreign Affairs minister Sibusiso Moyo, all in the absence of his two Vice-Presidents who are reportedly down with unspecified illnesses. Vice-President and Health minister Constantino Chiwenga and his colleague Kembo Mohadi […]
Incarcerated Zimbabwean journalist and documentary filmmaker Hopewell Chin’ono will stay in remand prison after a Harare High Court judge reserved ruling in his bail appeal on charges of violating a section of the law that has earlier been expunged by the country’s highest court. Hopewell Chin’ono was arrested early in […]
The opposition says Moyo’s ‘tragic death is a wake-up call to us all’ and calls on Zimbabwe to work towards rolling out a robust Covid-19 response and securing vaccines. Zimbabwean Foreign Affairs and International Trade Minister Sibusiso Moyo succumbed to Covid-19 on Wednesday as the country battles to contain a […]
Three inmates who were sharing the same cells with suspended Harare mayor Jacob Mafume at Harare remand prison succumbed to COVID-19, according to Mafume’s lawyer, Tendai Biti. Biti told court that Mafume was to be quarantined on a medical doctor’s recommendation after three of his inmates died of COVID-19. Mafume […]
The crackdown in Zimbabwe and the continued arrest of journalist Hopewell Chin’ono and opposition figures Job Sikhala and Fadzai Mahere have been condemned by Amnesty International. Incarcerated Zimbabwean journalist and documentary filmmaker Hopewell Chin’ono, who was arrested last Friday for the third time within six months, was placed on remand on […]
Police have arrested lawyer and opposition Movement for Democratic (MDC) Alliance party spokesperson, Advocate Fadzayi Mahere, and charged her with inciting or promoting public disorder or public violence after she allegedly tweeted about the abuse of a minor by a police officer. In a tweet, Mahere said, “Arrested. This regime […]
President Cyril Ramaphosa has found himself in another dilemma after Zimbabwe’s Zanu-PF spokesperson, Tafadzwa Mugwadi, threatened to reveal “a bombshell” regarding a recent visit by an ANC delegation to Zimbabwe. According to sources within Zanu-PF, there is a growing belief inside the party that Ramaphosa has been secretly funding opposition […]
South African president Cyril Ramaphosa has waded into a potentially explosive diplomatic tiff between Zanu PF and the ANC over threats by Zanu PF to “leak a bombshell” that would expose and embarrass South Africa’s ruling party. Ramaphosa has come out guns blazing, daring Zanu PF’s director of information Tafadzwa […]
Health experts have warned of a continued surge in Covid-19 cases in the country during the coming weeks and called on government to introduce and equip new decentralised treatment centres around the country. Zimbabwe currently has a few Covid 19 dedicated treatment centres located in big cities and towns and […]