Zimbabwe kicked-off its COVID-19 vaccination programme on Thursday after receiving a donation of 200,000 doses of the Sinopharm vaccine from China earlier in the week. Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga, who doubles as the country’s health minister, was the first to receive the jab, at Harare’s Wilkins Hospital. Zimbabwe aims to vaccinate […]
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 […]
Outbursts by a top ally of President Emmerson Mnangagwa declaring that G40 elements remain firmly within Zanu PF’s top levels have heightened fears in the party that the president’s loyalists are targeting his deputy Constantino Chiwenga, insiders have revealed. Mabel Chinomona, the senate president, is said to have raised eyebrows […]
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has made forced cross-cutting changes to his Presidential Guard (PG) Brigade several months after his wife Auxillia clashed with one of the most senior officers in the unit, The NewsHawks can report. The changes reflect Mnangagwa’s continued coup-proofing strategy and search for stability in the military forces which brought […]
Electoral management body, Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has washed its hands over the by-elections which Vice-President and Health minister Constantino Chiwenga embargoed citing the novel coronavirus, saying it cannot override an Executive decree. Speaking in Darwendale yesterday at a training workshop for journalists organised by ZEC, the electoral body chairperson […]
Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga has dumped a truckload of his estranged wife Marry’s clothes and household property at her offices in Harare’s Eastlea suburb, even though their divorce settlement case is pending in court. Chiwenga had earlier written to Marry’s lawyers notifying them of his intention, but the lawyers protested the […]
Inhuman conditions at the country’s prisons have been exposed in a court application by human rights lobby group, the Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum and a former inmate, Taurai Mbewe who are seeking to compel Treasury to release funds for the construction of more prison facilities. The applicants cited the […]
Beleaguered Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga made spirited but futile efforts to save his allies from the Zanu PF political guillotine during Wednesday’s tense politburo meeting in which a titanic battle among senior party officials exploded into the open. The most high-profile casualty from Wednesday’s meeting was Mashonaland East provincial affairs minister […]
AT least five Zanu PF candidates will contest the party’s primary elections to be held soon to fill the Marondera East constituency seat that was left vacant following the death of Patrick Chidhakwa. Chidhakwa died in South Africa last month due to heart complications and was buried at his rural […]
Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga’s suspension of by-elections cannot be read in isolation as it is part of a well-thought-out strategy to stifle democracy in Zimbabwe. Chiwenga on Friday amended the Covid-19 regulations to stop the holding of parliamentary and municipal by-elections scheduled for December 5. The Covid-19 pandemic was used as […]