Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa last week said government policy does not allow ministers to disobey court orders, but ducked questions directly related to Local Government minister Saviour Kasukuwere’s alleged defiance of a High Court order to reinstate suspended Gweru councillors.The VP was grilled during the question-and-answer session in the National Assembly by Bulawayo South MP Eddie Cr

Alpha Omega Dairy, owned by President Robert Mugabe's family, has been hurled to the High Court by a South African company, Blakey Investments, over a $38 000 debt for packaging materials supplied to the First Family’s dairy plant in Mazowe last year.Early this month, Blakey filed its case at the High Court in Harare under case HC3813/16 seeking an order to compel Mugabe’s family business to p

Zesa Holdings chief executive Josh Chifamba, has with immediate effect, directed the power utility’s subsidiaries to stop any further payments for public relations consultancy to Fruitful Communications, a company owned by Zanu PF faithful Psychology Maziwisa.This comes amid reports that more $32,000 of public funds from the Zimbabwe Power Company was on its way to the private firm’s bank acco

...As Diplomats StarveTHE Zimbabwe government is contemplating  closing  some of its embassies due to the cash crisis that has seen some diplomats and embassy staff going for months without salaries Presenting a report in the National Assembly, Zanu-PF MP,  Kindness Paradza, who was part of a delegation to Kuwait that was led by the Speaker of the National Assembly Advocate Jacob Mu

TRADITIONAL leaders yesterday demanded duty-free vehicle imports, farms, an increase in their monthly allowances, new vehicles, as well as government-funded medical aid cover from the broke government. Speaking at the ongoing Chiefs’ Council meeting in Harare yesterday, the traditional leaders said they should be allowed to import vehicles duty-free at least once every three years as part of the

FINANCE minister Patrick Chinamasa has declared that the planned introduction of bond notes to ease the cash crisis was non-negotiable, adding government was determined to implement the new measures despite massive resistance from various quarters of the population.Chinamasa told a public discussion, organised by the Southern African Political and Economic Series (Sapes) Trust, in Harare last Thur

WAR Veterans minister Tshinga Dube has called on opposition parties and critics, who have hit out at his ministry for spending $2 million in just under three hours at a meeting with President Robert Mugabe at City Sports Centre, to read the Constitution.Dube said the 2013 Constitution gave the government the mandate to take care of the welfare of war veterans, and that is why his ministry was esta

REPORTS that policemen continue to be nabbed for mounting fake roadblocks clearly indicate something wrong in the law establishment system of the country.That a whole country, with a functional legal system, can have episodes where people mount roadblocks as and when they see fit shows an apparent absence of systems. And, as they say, in the absence of systems everything goes. Lawlessness of this

THE Zimbabwe government has banned the movement of cattle for grazing, fattening, marketing and breeding purposes to contain foot and mouth disease and cut on vaccination costs.Only cattle going straight for slaughter will be permitted to move from one district to another.The new measure will see farmers establishing feedlots and marketing the livestock in their areas.Initially, farmers used to tr

THE Civil Service Commission (CSC) has with effect from this month slashed all diplomats’ allowances due to the prevailing economic challenges.Presenting a report on the visit to Kuwait last month by a delegation of local legislators that was led by the Speaker of the National Assembly Jacob Mudenda, Zanu-PF Makonde lawmaker,  Kindness Paradza told the House that diplomats’ allowances had

MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai was yesterday shortlisted as one of the most famous Blessers in Africa by dating site – Blesserfinder. The newly established social media page where women (Blessees) – mostly young – are matched with rich “benefactors” (Blessers) spent the better part of yesterday poking fun at Tsvangirai, posting his images with women, attaching them with hilarious posts.T

Police in Matabeleland South will soon start taking stern measures against farmers whose livestock strays into highways with offenders being fined $20 per beast or facing culpable homicide charges if the animals cause fatal accidents.Farmers whose livestock stray onto highways will be fined $10 per beast during the day and $20 at night.Matabeleland South police spokesperson, Inspector Philisani Nd

GWERU City Council has threatened to take legal action against defaulting ratepayers as the local authority grapples to recover $37 million it is owed by residents and companies.Council said as a result of failure to settle rates and water charges, it was now finding it difficult to service its own debt that stands at $33 million.The acting Director of Finance, Owen Masimba, told The Chronicle tha

A woman from Cowdray Park suburb in Bulawayo yesterday appeared in court facing an assault charge after she beat up her husband’s lover at her workplace.Sithandazile Dungeni, 36, pleaded guilty to assaulting Lethukuthula Mpofu.On April 29, 2016, Dungeni went to Mpofu’s workplace in the Bulawayo Central Business District and asked to speak to her.During the discussion Dungeni accused Mpofu of h

Bulawayo Zanu PF provincial Youth League political commissar Bornface Mutsure said Bulawayo would be sending 100,000 youths for the million-man march as per the target given to each province by their national executive.He said the youths would leave Bulawayo on May 24 and return soon after the march on May 25.Mutsure said they were prepared to march in support of President Mugabe due to his popula