Movement for Democratic Change founding president Morgan Tsvangirai says President Robert Mugabe has no clue on fixing the ailing economy.Tsvangirai, who is recovering from an undisclosed ailment, said President Mugabe’s Zanu PF party has run out of ideas on how to handle the current cash crisis, high unemployment and other issues.The MDC-T leader says this has resulted in the president blaming

Masvingo residents have rejected the proposed Local Government Amendment Bill saying it violates some provisions of Zimbabwe’s constitution.Like people in other provinces, they told a committee overseeing the parliamentary outreach program gathering people’s views on the Bill that the proposed piece of legislation gives the Minister of Local Government too much power in running local authoriti

A ZAMBIAN woman who dumped her minor twins at the Victoria Falls Border Post has been deported back to her country after being sentenced to a wholly suspended six months in jail.Constance Sililo, 32, of Indego Extension in Livingstone, Zambia, dumped the tots aged 28 months on Thursday last week after failing to meet their father, Edmund Mutsinze, a Zimbabwean truck driver.The two had arranged to

A BULAWAYO woman has taken Shangani commercial farmer, Bruce Moffat to court seeking an order directing his eviction from the disputed Oaklands Farm.Sibongile Shava, in court papers, says she was allocated the farm in 2014 by the Ministry of Lands and Rural Resettlement.Shava, a widow of the late Vice-President Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo’s driver, Colleen Shava, on Tuesday filed summons at the Bulaway

AN UNLICENSED driver from Bulawayo’s Mpopoma suburb who had been arrested and taken to the Western Commonage police station for pirating without an operator’s licence, smashed into the station’s gate as he tried to reverse on his way out.Mphathisi Gwebu, 22, pleaded guilty to crashing into the gate and driving without a licence but denied the charge of pirating.He was remanded out of custody

POLICE in Bulawayo have arrested a man who allegedly broke into the Old Bulawayo Museum and stole King Lobengula’s gold coated spear among other artefacts that have since been recovered.Bongani Mahlobo, 33, of Hope Fountain on the outskirts of Bulawayo was arrested on Tuesday.He allegedly told officers that he did not mean to steal the artefacts but did it on ancestral spirits’ influence.Bulaw

Mines and Mining Development Minister Walter Chidhakwa yesterday defended his ministry’s permanent secretary Professor Francis Gudyanga for chairing three boards of parastatals under the ministry saying the entities were due for dissolution and it was not prudent to constitute substantive boards in those circumstances.Minister Chidhakwa said while he agreed that it was not consistent with the te

MAPUTO. — Mozambique’s army will escort trucks travelling a 270-kilometre stretch of road that passes through territory held by militias aligned with the opposition Renamo party, an industry body said.Last week, two people were killed and 12 cargo trucks burned on National Road 7, a key artery linking Mozambique’s port of Beira to landlocked Zimbabwe, Malawi and Zambia, as well as the Democr

Local Government minister Saviour Kasukuwere yesterday issued a ministerial statement in the National Assembly outlining alleged gross incompetence at Gweru City Council which prompted him to suspend all the city fathers.In his statement in response to a question he was asked last week by Mkoba MP Amos Chibaya (MDC-T), Kasukuwere read out a litany of irregularities that he said were unearthed by a

Youth and Indigenisation permanent secretary George Magosvongwe has revealed Triple Bottom Line (3BL) was engaged to do consultancy work for government through the recommendation of minister, Patrick Zhuwao.Appearing before the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Youth, Indigenisation and Empowerment chaired by Gokwe-Nembudziya MP Justice Mayor Wadyajena (Zanu PF), Magosvongwe said Zhuwao instruc

PREGNANT women in Zimbabwe are allegedly being forced to bribe officials in order to access the life-saving blood, a local health lobby group has said.Citizens Health Watch (CHW) trustee Fungisai Dube disclosed that the cost of blood remained a cause for concern in Zimbabwe with officials indicating the precious liquid remained beyond the reach of ordinary people.“The issue of women paying bribe

A HARARE man Andrew Muzhezha is in the habit of urinating on his wife and also walking naked in the presence of his children, the Civil Court has heard.The matter came to light yesterday when Magdalene Mutizwa made an application for a protection order against Muzhezha, whom she described as being of an abusive nature.Mutizwa told the court that whenever she had an altercation with Muzhezha, he wo

THE government’s debt to Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has increased to about $5 million, placing further strain on the local authority’s ability to deliver quality service to residents.According to the latest council minutes, as at the beginning of April, the government through its various departments owed BCC $4,3 million but the debt increased to $4,9 million by the end of that month.“At t

Zimbabwe People First (ZimPF) leader, Joice Mujuru, faces her first real political test when she addresses a rally in Bulawayo on Saturday, her first since the formation of the opposition party in March.Mujuru will address party supporters at the Stanley Square in Makokoba suburb.Mujuru dispatched the interim national coordinator Dzikamai Mavhaire to the city yesterday to assess the venue and get

TWENTY-THREE people escaped death yesterday afternoon when a Honda Fit and Toyota Hiace kombi collided at the intersection of Nketa Drive and Hyde Park road in Bulawayo’s Mpopoma suburb.Traffic lights at the intersection of the two roads were not functioning at the time of the accident due to a power cut in the area.The Honda fit, which had seven people on board including the driver, was going t