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The return of Zuma

The ANC re-elected Zuma as leader of the party, teeing him up for another seven years as head of state with the country’s second richest businessman Cyril Ramaphosa as his deputy. Ramaphosa is seen as broadly favourable to business and investment.After the announcement of Zuma’s re-election, the rand…

Kunonga faction crumbles

Kunonga’s faction has also suffered major defections to either the latter or different other churches after Supreme Court appeal judges ruled last month that rights to Anglican properties were legally vested in the CPCA led by bishop Chad Gandiya.In some cases, Kunonga’s followers have abandoned church services altogether…

Diamond looters cornered

Accusations and counter-accusations have dogged the handling of revenues from Chiadzwa diamond exp-orts ever since the government seized the hugely prolific fields from the private sector in 2006. The discord worsened following the formation of a coalition government in February 2009, with head of the exchequer, Tendai Biti,…

Mugabe risks isolation if he defies SADC

SADC leaders, meeting in Tanzania at a weekend summit to discuss the region’s trouble spots, urged the political stakeholders in Zimbabwe to fully implement the Global Political Agreement (GPA) before holding fresh elections after an inconclusive presidential poll in June 2008.The summit further urged President Mugabe, Prime Minister…

Ministers off the hook

The ZANU-PF leader divulged at the party’s indaba held in Gweru that former South African president Thabo Mbeki had told him that some local ministers had demanded kickbacks from South Africans who were seeking to invest in the country, claiming President Mugabe also wanted a share of the…

ZANU-PF pleads bankruptcy

The report states that ZANU-PF has been experiencing tight liquidity challenges in the last four years, and called for long-term solutions to “its precarious financial position, especially considering the forthcoming harmonised elections, which the party should win at whatever financial cost”.The picture being painted by ZANU-PF in its…

Firms face seizure

The Financial Gazette can exclusively reveal that after narrowly escaping from the jaws of defeat in 2000 by hurriedly expropriating land from the perceived white funders of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), ZANU-PF has again set its sights on taking over foreign-owned firms and giving majority ownership…

Cabinet tackles Save saga

The Mutambara-led committee, whose other members include ministers Ignatius Chombo, Francis Nhema, Walter Mzembi, Saviour Kasukuwere, Kembo Mohadi and Theresa Makone, is already at work, sources said.Problems at the world renowned animal sanctuary were triggered by the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources Management’s decision to award hunting…

Tsvangirai panics

The PM, still smarting from recent independent surveys which showed that President Robert Mugabe has eclipsed his popularity and trying to wriggle himself out of damaging sex scandals, is said to have admitted at the weekend that ZANU-PF was a well-oiled machine which could upset the MDC-T’s electoral…

Conflict over Harare wetlands

Tinashe Madava, Senior ReporterTHE issue of construction projects taking place on wetlands around Harare continues to court debate, with conservationists saying destruction of wetlands will worsen the capital city’s water woes in future.While the allocation of the wetland behind Dandaro village in Borrowdale for a massive retail shopping…