Senate passes PVOs Bill…as USAid warns of funding threat
THE Private Voluntary Organisations (PVOs) Amendment Bill, which has been criticised by opposition parties and civic groups for muzzling government critics and narrowing democratic space, has gone a step closer to becoming law after sailing through the Senate. It now awaits President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s assent to become law. Opposition legislators...
Probe Zec commissioners, govt told
Zimbabwe Electoral Commission HQ ELECTORAL watchdogs have demanded that government must launch an inquiry into the fallout among Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) commissioners, which they say has crippled the electoral body six months before the country holds general elections. Zec commissioners have been squabbling over the preliminary delimitation report that...
Zinara hikes Z$ toll fees
Zinara Tollgate THE Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) has hiked toll fees in local currency with effect from February 1, 2023. In a statement yesterday, Zinara said the toll fees in local currency will apply in terms of Section 4 of Statutory Instrument 32 of 2021, which states that...
Equatorial Guinea appoints its first female prime minister
Equatorial Guinea's President Teodoro Obiang Nguema. Equatorial Guinea's President Teodoro Obiang Nguema on Tuesday appointed his vice-minister of education, Manuela Roka Botey, as prime minister, the first time a woman has held the role in the West African country. Botey's new position was announced on state television late on Tuesday....
Polls are tricky, Belarus warns ED
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko (left) and his Zimbabwean counterpart Emmerson Mnangagwa posing for a photo after the two signed eight bilateral agreements at State House in Harare VISITING Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko told his ally President Emmerson Mnangagwa to work extremely hard to win this year’s elections which he said...
Mnangagwa Hints On 2023 Harmonised Elections Dates
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has hinted that the 2023 elections might be held in the second half of the year. Zimbabwe braces itself for the decisive poll — the second since Mnangagwa took over from the late Robert Mugabe in November 2017. Speaking at the Zimbabwe-Belarus instruments of cooperation signing ceremony held at State...