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Looted development funds bankrolled Zimbabwe President’s extravagant 92nd birthday party PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe’s lavish 92nd birthday party early this year was partly funded by money drawn from the Zimbabwe Manpower Development Fund (Zimdef), fresh evidence related to a sensational corruption scandal rocking the government has revealed. Mugabe, a fortnight ago …

Pensioners fight to survive as Zimbabwe flounders Zimbabwean pensioner John Charumbira talks about his economic hardships at his home in Kuwadzana township in Harare 4 October 2016. Charumbira struggles to make ends meet with a paltry state pension of 60 USD . HARARE – They sleep outside banks, skimp on …

Visitors to the recently completed Prophetic Healing and Deliverance (PHD) Yadah Village, a giant guesthouse in Waterfalls, Harare, will fork out between US$300 and US$900 to spend three days at the leafy facility. The guest house was officially opened on September 2, 2016 after it was built in a record four …

  The Katsina Emirate Council on Thursday declared that the marriage between a 14-year-old girl,Habiba Isa, and the Emir of Katsina, Alhaji Abdulmumuni Usman, was irreversible, PUNCHreports. Isa was reportedly abducted by one Jamilu Lawal, who is an aide of the Emir, on August 16, 2016 and was converted to Islam …

Across the globe at the moment, any name that goes with “Mugabe” is a household name at least in Zimbabwe. Grace is one of those. Grace Mugabe is the current First Lady of Zimbabwe. The 51 year old woman was born on July 23 1965, in Benoni, Johannesburg, South Africa. Before …

By Tendai Mugabe Zanu-PF provinces have welcomed the step taken by the party’s Secretary for Women’s Affairs, Dr Grace Mugabe, last Friday to clarify misunderstandings and misinterpretations of their proposal to have the party’s constitution amended to have a woman in the Presidium. The proposal was read to imply that …

>Frail and looking sick, 34-year-old Zimbabwean activist, Linda Masarira, walks in the streets of Harare a day after her discharge from a Harare hospital. Though she is now testing what she calls “freedom,” her mind returns to her recent 84-day stint in Chikurubi Maximum Prison. Masarira, a widow and mother …

The United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH) has announced the indefinite cancellation of elective surgical operations as a result of lack of the lack of a sedative drug, pethidine. A news portal in the country, Zimbabwe.com reports that UBH’s clinical director, Naracacious Dzvanga, had confirmed the hospital’s position through a memo to …

WASHINGTON DC —  Zimbabwe’s acting president Phelekezela Mphoko says there is nothing wrong with top state officials draining money from the national fiscus to finance Zanu PF activities. Mr. Mphoko made these remarks in Kent, Norton, where he was addressing a Zanu PF rally ahead of a parliamentary by-election pitting …

High Court approached for minister’s arrest PRESSURE to have Higher and Education, Science and Technology Development Minister Professor Jonathan Moyo prosecuted over corruption allegations intensified yesterday after a Harare vendor approached the High Court seeking an order compelling police to arrest the minister. Prof Moyo has been in the news …