ZANU PF speaks on banning women from wearing trousers and mini-skirts. ZANU PF national spokesperson Simon Khaya Moyo has distanced the ruling party from messages circulating on social media platforms claiming that the party intends to ban women and girls from wearing mini-skirts and trousers in public places. Here is Khaya Moyo’s statement issued late Sunday afternoon, below: The Revolutionary Party, ZANU-PF distances itself from circulating fake news saying the Party is lobbying or mooting for the disbandment of mini-skirts and trousers for women. The fake news whose origins has been traced to an NGO allied to the opposition parties reflect the views of that organization and its handlers who have no respect for women, women’s rights and our culture. The Liberation
South Africa will deploy soldiers to quell violence that erupted in the wake of former president Jacob Zuma’s jailing, the military said on Monday, after days of riots and looting left at least six people dead. Disturbances worsened as Zuma challenged his 15-month prison term in the country’s top court after weekend unrest by pro-Zuma protesters in his home province of KwaZulu-Natal and in Gauteng. Police said 219 arrests had been made, as opportunistic criminals appeared to take advantage of the anger some feel over Zuma’s incarceration to steal and cause destruction. Any confrontation with soldiers risks fuelling claims by Zuma and his supporters that they are victims of a politically motivated crackdown by his successor, President Cyril Ramaphosa. The rand
After days of drama and suspense before handing himself in, South Africa’s Jacob Zuma began a 15-month sentence for contempt on Thursday, after spending his first night in jail. The former prisoner of the apartheid regime had kept the country on tenterhooks by trying all legal avenues to evade jail, but Zuma became an inmate once again shortly after midnight. It is the first time a former president has been jailed in post-apartheid South Africa. He handed himself in at a recently renovated jail in the small mining town of Estcourt in his KwaZulu-natal home province. The sentence handed to Zuma by the Constitutional Court last week for snubbing anti-graft investigators also set a benchmark for the continent in jailing a former head of state for refusing to respond to a corruptio
MORE than 10 000 people have been arrested for contravening the enhanced Level Four national lockdown regulations introduced last week to curb the rising tide of Covid-19 infections. We urge Zimbabweans to follow the lockdown measures and wear their masks properly, if they don’t, we are going to arrest them,” he said. “For those who are opening beer halls and nightclubs, we are not going to show any mercy to them. “Like for instance, last night police officers on patrol in the Harare CBD arrested scores of people who were drinking at beer halls and nightclubs. “People must follow and respect the curfew. Lately, we have been having problems with people who are giving us unnecessary excuses. For example, some say they are coming from work at
In a report this month, the World Bank predicts Zimbabwe’s economy will grow 3.9% this year even as the country sees an alarming rise in poverty levels, especially in urban areas. The report says a record 7.9 million Zimbabweans are “extremely” poor, earning less than 30 U.S. dollars a month. Forty-one-year-old Richard Luzani is one of many unemployed Zimbabweans hoping the economy will recover and that the coronavirus pandemic will end soon. Each day he pushes a cart full of water buckets while selling the scarce precious liquid in Hatcliffe — one of the poorest suburbs of Harare. He works with his 58-year-old father, Weluzani. “I wish I could a get any formal job," Luzani said. "I am just barely making a living from this hustle of selling wa
Norton Member of Parliament, Mr Temba Mliswa, might have landed himself in trouble this afternoon after Deputy Speaker of National Assembly Tsitsi Gezi said she will rule tomorrow whether the legislator is not in contempt of Parliament for allegedly abusing other Members Parliament. Deputy Speaker Gezi ejected Mr Mliswa this afternoon for disorderly conduct and said she will make a ruling on whether his conduct did not constitute contempt of Parliament. This was after Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi proposed that Mr Mliswa be investigated for disorderly conduct in the chamber. This was after Mr Mliswa heckled at Minister Ziyambi, who is also Leader of Government Business in the House, hurling insults at him as he was on the floor to respond to a que
Two Zimbabwean brothers have been convicted of attempted murder in the United Kingdom following a “savage” daylight assault with a machete. Benedict Zvekare (26), who left his victim with severe injuries, was found guilty of attempted murder and is beginning his 20-year jail term. His brother Blessing (31), also of St John’s Road in Edlington, was convicted by the same Sheffield Crown Court jury and given three years for assisting an offender. Det Insp Lee Townley, who led the investigation, described the incident, which happened as the victim walked along Balby Road with friends last September 28. “At some point, a rock was thrown into the road and towards Zvekare’s vehicle, which was the catalyst for what happened next,” said the officer. &
A Bulawayo based Zimbabwe Republic Police officer was arrested after he allegedly raped a woman at a police station. iHarare has learned that 31-year-old Phinias Shava who is stationed at Hillside Police Station appeared in court facing two counts of rape. Online publication CITE Zimbabwe reports that Shava pleaded not guilty when he appeared before Bulawayo Magistrate Rachel Mukanga. The magistrate released the police officer on ZWL$10,000 bail and remanded him out of custody to April 15, 2021. The magistrate also warned Shava not to interfere with state witnesses and to report at Mzilikazi Police Station every Friday. Outlining the state’s case against the police officer, the prosecutor revealed that the crime occured when Shava was assigned to the How Mine police base.
In a suspected case of witchcraft, three men, one of them wearing a police anti-riot uniform, recently visited a cemetery and dug three old graves. The incident happened at Katambe village in Dinde under Chief Nekatambe area just outside Hwange town a fortnight ago. New Zimbabwe reports that the motive by the three who are yet to be identified or arrested is not yet known. Police investigators found that a grave of a woman who died in 2012 had a one-meter-deep hole while two others had been dug as well on the side of the head suggesting the suspects may have been stealing coffins or anything related to the deceased. Matabeleland North police spokesperson Inspector Glory Banda said investigations were underway. It is alleged that on the 26th of March Vumani Nkosana of Katambe
Dubai based business woman Edith Chibhamu has opened her own political party and will be running for President in 2023. Edith Posted a flyer on her social media platforms. The women of Zimbabwe are tired of suffering during pregnancy and birth. The mortality rate is extremely huge. We need an end to the suffering of the Zimbabwean mothers. Our civil servants are the lowest paid in the world. Our special skills workers deserve to be paid well in line with the rest of the world. A head of state can fly in a commercial flight and cut the travel allowances by 70 percent. Use the savings to build maternity hospitals around the nation.
