Some aspiring candidates have raised a stink in the party, claiming some legislators and councillors had demonstrated that they only cared for their own wellbeing by engaging in corruption to enrich themselves without any significant development in constituencies.This has resulted in several councillors from across the country being…

The compromise deal has created friction within their respective parties, upsetting the party hardliners who have vowed that the exercise would be derailed, with dissenting ZANU-PF members being whipped into line at a meeting last week held to endorse the document.Sources this week said some ZANU-PF members who…

But unlike the other traditional chiefs, Chief Negomo’s love for publicity is legendary. The media is usually on tow when he or his messengers serve summons on high-profile people who would have wronged him or his subjects.His rulings have also set tongues wagging beyond the Matepatepa mountain range…

His chieftaincy is now hanging by the thread since traditional rituals must be undertaken this year to choose a substantive traditional ruler.Other members of his extended family are actively pushing for his replacement for various reasons.There are those who are alleging that the Negomos “stole” the chieftainship by…

Although the party has projected an image of oneness by uniting behind its leader, President Robert Mugabe, in power for 33 years, the party has, to all intents and purposes, remained deeply fragmented.The incumbent may have landed his post uncontested at the last ZANU-PF elective congress, but that…

Nyagura also turned 65, making him ineligible for reconsideration for the top post in line with the country’s labour laws.He has also served the stipulated two terms as head of the country’s oldest and biggest university.There have been moves by some members of the Buzwani Mothobi-led council to…

As industry burns, the impact of the various government programmes put in place to save the situation is still to be felt.In 2011, government launched the Zimbabwe Economic Trade Revival Facility (ZETREF) and the Distressed and Marginalised Areas Fund (DIMAF) to resuscitate industry, but the take up has…

There is concern President Mugabe is likely to call for harmonised polls in June this year without requisite legislative and electoral reforms, which include the re-alignment of the security sector. The crack-down on civil society members ahead of Zimbabwe’s make-or-break polls has also sent jitters among the country’s…

Moyo’s ascension means that his current position will become vacant.Nkomo died on Thursday morning after a long battle with cancer to become the country’s fourth Vice President to die in office in less than 15 years.His demise has therefore opened a vacancy within the presidium, which insiders claim…

The GPA is the document that culminated in the formation of the inclusive government, which inclu-des President Robert Mugabe’s ZANU-PF, Pri-me Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC-T and Welshman Ncube’s MDC.Ncube’s formation was, at the formation of the inclusive government, headed by Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutam-bara, who was voted…