THE United Kingdom (UK) has ordered its citizens to leave Zimbabwe in the wake of the coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak which has since claimed three lives, placing the mortality rate at 27 percent in the country. Posting on its Twitter account, the UK embassy said citizens in the country must go home immediately as there are no plans for a charter. “You should return to the UK now if you are a British national normally resident in the UK but still in Zimbabwe. “There are no plans for a charter. Next @flyethiopian flight is Saturday April 11 and seats are still available,” UK embassy said. This comes weeks after the UK ambassador to Zimbabwe Melanie Robinson had also advised that citizens must follow the directive. “UK Foreign secretary Dominic Ra
MDC Alliance secretary-general Chalton Hwende says out of the Party’s 111 MPs, 109 of them have confirmed that they are still Members of the Party. Mwonzora said all the 109 MPs are paid up members and only Morgen Komichi and Douglas Mwonzora have crossed the floor to join MDC-T in violation of electoral laws. Hwende has signed an affidavit form in which he swore his allegiance to the MDC Alliance. He said: I, Chalton Hwende do hereby make an oath and state that 1. I am a member of parliament for Kuwadzona East Constituency. I was elected as such /appointed as such pursuant to the 30 July 2018 election MDC Alliance party ticket. 2. I confirm that I am a member of the MDC Alliance political party 3. I confirm that the President of our party is Adv Nelson Chamisa and the S
Social media has reacted with shock to controversial Prophet Shepherd Bushiri's video in which he tells his followers to pay their tithes and offerings. "You are saying it's a 'Sunday and I cannot go without my offering'. There's a church account I'm putting on the screen right now," Bushiri says in the 27-second video, which is trending on Twitter. Banking details of the church are seen appearing on the video, as Bushiri implores his followers to give their offerings. "I want you to put your offering in the church account. Put your seed, put your tithe, don't hesitate. Don't listen to the devil. Don't listen to what people say. Don't listen to what your mind says. Listen to what God says..." Twitter users were shock
The Chairperson of the Morgan Tsvangirai Legacy Edwin Dzambara has sensationally accused MDC leader Nelson Chamisa of diverting over US$3 million party funds for his personal use. In a press briefing on Friday Dzambara said Chamisa abused over twenty percent of US$18 million which was allocated to the MDC under the political finances Act. He said the money was meant to pay for the medical bills of the late Morgan Tsvangirai but Chamisa diverted the funds. Chamisa’s spokesperson Nkululeko Sibanda has refuted the allegations leveled against his boss.
Zimbabwe and South Africa will at midnight today formally close Beitbridge Border Post to non-essential human traffic in line with the two governments’ robust plans to curtail the spread of Covid-19 which has killed thousands of people globally. On Monday President Mnangagwa announced a cocktail of measures to manage and contain the spread of Covid-19. Some of the strategies include an immediate ban on gatherings around nightclubs, bars, beerhalls, movie houses, swimming pools, gymnasiums and sporting activities until further notice. Further, hospital visits have been reduced to one visit by one person per day while public gatherings have been cut from 100 to 50. Informal markets will remain open but citizens are encouraged to limit their visits while health and sec
BINGA, Zimbabwe (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Anyone driving through Binga, in western Zimbabwe, is greeted by a vision of the past dotted along the tarred road: thatched homes built on stilts, two meters above the ground. The elevated structures - called ngazi - were the traditional homes of the indigenous Tonga people who live in the district until a push for modernity in the 1950s led them to swap the wooden huts for brick homes built on the ground. Now, as the area experiences increasingly intense droughts and flash flooding linked to climate change, the Tonga and others living near the Zambezi River, along the border with Zambia, are looking to the lessons of the past and switching back to homes on stilts. Elias Mudenda, a villager from Siachilaba, 50 km (30 miles) from Bing
PROBLEMS continue to mount for former First Lady Grace Mugabe’s business empire after a Mazowe gold miner she allegedly displaced during her late husband, former President Robert Mugabe’s rule applied for a spoliation order to repossess the farm and equipment where his mine is located. The “spoliation order” is a common law remedy whose purpose is to promote the rule of law and to serve as a shield against cases of “self-help”, where parties take the law into their own hands and exercise “power” which they do not have. The miner, Langton Chapungu, whose case was already in the High Court seeking the eviction of the former First Lady; together with two other individuals who were only identified in court papers as Tongai and Jemwa, made a
The wife of a missing pro-democracy campaigner and freelance journalist, has submitted a letter to President Emmerson Mnangagwa protesting that her husband, who was abducted five years ago, "cannot go unaccounted for just like that” and appealed for help to get answers to ascertain Itai Dzamara’s disappearance. The Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights helped Sheffra Dzamara to submit the letter, which is calling for an immediate response from the Zimbabwean president. “… I believe someone in your government knows what happened to him. If the abductors killed him, give me his body so that I can grieve, bury and get closure. I can also take my kids to his grave and say here lies your father. With tears, I appeal to you as the president to help me. I sin
Multimillionaire trucker businessman Sam "Mshengu" Chabalala has gone missing and has sent his wife and some of his employees a "suicide note", claiming that his life was in danger. Sources in the Hawks said the note, which he apparently sent to his wife on March 3, Chabalala said he never wronged anyone and does not know what he has done to "deserve this". Chabalala is a wanted man after a warrant of arrest was issued for him on Friday when he failed to appear in the Witbank magistrate's court in connection with charges of corruption, illegal possession of a firearm and ammunition, illegal entry and remaining within the borders of SA, and providing false information to be granted entry into the country. He was out on R200,000 bail, which was gran
Spotlight Zimbabwe claims that it has received confirmation from military circles, that the country's security chiefs have finalised President Emmerson Mnangagwa's departure from power, as Zimbabwe's leader. Intelligence at hand shows that Vice President, Rtd General Constantino Chiwenga, is going to takeover the reins of government from Mnangagwa as a transitional president, at a date and ceremony to be announced and broadcast on national television. VP Chiwenga is said to have already lined up his incoming cabinet, and is going to retain some of his key allies who include: Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) Commander, General Philip Valerio Sibanda; Lands and Agriculture minister, Rtd Air chief marshal Perence Shiri; Foreign affairs minister, Sibusiso Busi Moyo; Zimbab
