MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday obtained a provisional High Court order halting the disbursement of $7.5 million under the Political Parties Finance Act to the Thokozani Khupe -led MDC-T as assets became the latest battleground in the fractured opposition. Government was due to release the money given to political parties with more than five seats in Parliament to the MDC Alliance at a time the opposition party had been thrown into disarray by a Supreme Court ruling declaring Chamisa an illegitimate leader. The ruling made last month, also declared Khupe the acting president of the opposition party until an extra congress to be held in three months. This is despite Chamisa and Khupe participating in the last general elections under different political groupings. Armed
Yesterday, social media was awash with pictures of the supposed renovations that have taken place at the country’s major soccer facility, National Sports Stadium. The pictures were taken during Minister of Youth, Sport, Arts and Recreation, Kirsty Coventry’s tour at the soccer ground. According to a report from the state-controlled media, Coventry is confident that what has been done could meet FIFA and CAF standards. After being embarrassed late last year, Government intensified renovations of all the country’s stadia which had dilapidated as some were being used as maize fields. The changing rooms have been given a major facelift while the doping room is now up and running. The press conference room and the media centre have been given a facelift as well.
The opposition MDC Alliance on Thursday said it foiled an attempted take-over of its Harare headquarters hours after it announced a boycott of parliamentary proceedings to protest against the dismissal of four of its legislators at the behest of a faction opposed to the party leadership. On March 31, the country’s Supreme Court declared that Nelson Chamisa’s leadership of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) Alliance was illegitimate and ordered the party to hold an election to elect new leadership within three months. A majority of MDC-A leaders have rallied behind Chamisa, arguing that the leadership issue was settled when the party held a congress in 2019 to choose a new executive. But a faction opposed to Chamisa has been emboldened by the court ruling and this
Entertainment hotshot, Taona Oswald Chipunza, popularly known as Teemak’s picture while in police custody has gone viral. The usually composed and clean cut Teemak is pictured barefooted and humbly seated on the floor at the police station charge office amid allegations that he was arrested over fraud charges. Sources privy to the development alleged that the socialite was arrested after he pawned off a vehicle which he had bought on credit to a loan shark. He is said to have owed a loan shark money and in order to cover his debt, he pawned off his vehicle. However it is alleged that the said vehicle was purchased under credit and he had notfinished paying for it. Teemak allegedly pawned off a USD60k vehicle which he purchased on credit from a Harare car dealer,
JITI music exponent Baba Harare, who was reportedly under the weather with severe chest pains sparking a Covid-19 infection scare, has fully recovered. His manager Filda “Mama Filo” Muchabaiwa said the 31-year-old was safe and sound. She however said her camp was on sabbatical waiting for normalcy to return. “Baba Harare is safe and sound at home, he is resting as is the case with most of us,” said Mama Filo. Asked what was keeping them busy during the lockdown, she said: “We are just home resting and we don’t want to flout the lockdown rules because we will be in trouble with the authorities. “What I can tell you is that we are home and we will only resume shows when the situation is permitting.” She said Baba Harare&rsquo
Douglas Mwonzora speaks on why he recalled the MDC Alliance MPs. On Tuesday, the Speaker of Parliament, Jacob Mudenda made a shock announcement that MPs Chalton Hwende, Prosper Mutseyami, Thabitha Khumalo, and Lilian Timveous were no longer sitting legislators as the party had recalled them following a request from Mwonzora. Reinstated MDC-T secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora has said he was left with no option but to write to Parliament ordering the recall of four top party MPs as they were leading other legislators into disregarding a Supreme Court ruling that nullified Nelson Chamisa presidency. However, Mwonzora in an interview with NewZimbabwe as adamant the recall was justified and also a formality as the affected MPs had already expelled themselves from the part
Police arrested 115 people for not wearing masks while thousands stood for hours in bus queues on a chaotic day Monday, as Zimbabwe began easing lockdown restrictions which had shut down most of the country since March 30. A 35-day lockdown due to expire on May 3 was extended for a further 14 days by President Emmerson Mnangagwa, but big businesses were allowed to re-open although informal markets – where over 80 percent of Zimbabweans earn their living – remain closed. Mnangagwa also said only buses would be allowed to transport workers, freezing out taxis which many workers avoiding the congestion in buses prefer. There was also an outcry from businesses which have been ordered to get their employees tested for coronavirus before they can resume operations. After get
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People who will get out of their homes without face masks will from tomorrow be arrested as part of a raft of measures meant to ensure that the country conforms to Covid-19 lockdown Level Two guidelines announced by President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Friday. Mnangagwa announced that the country will extend the national lockdown which was meant to end at midnight today by a further 14 days but downgraded it to Level Two, which entails among other guidelines that all people must wear face masks of any type, even home-made cloth ones, in all public spaces and when they are outside of their homes. Mnangagwa also announced the reopening of industry and commerce provided that the companies ensure mandatory screening and testing and operate from 8am to 3pm. Permanen
Opposition leader Nelson Chamisa has admitted that MDC Alliance workers haven’t been paid their salaries since February, and attributed the delay in salaries payment to the coronavirus pandemic. Without elaborating how the pandemic stopped the MDC from paying its workers, Chamisa said “MDC workers haven’t been paid during the coronavirus period.” He was responding to a party supporter who asked him on social media if it was true that his party’s workers have been struggling to get their salaries. “Mr President I heard, MDC workers haven’t been paid, can you please tell us what are the challenges the party is facing for it to fail to pay it’s workers or is it propaganda from those who are against the party,”
