Robert Mugabe

Ex-minister Walter Mzembi's party has been rocked by further turmoil amid reports the new custodians of the fledgling opposition were at odds over a possible merger with Saviour Kasukuwere. The People's Party, as it is known, was recently dumped by the exiled former tourism minister and deputy president Godfrey Gandawa…

Bar and bottle store operators in Bulawayo have been left counting losses after some of their stocked beer brands expired during the current lockdown period imposed by government to try and contain the spread of COVID-19. President Emmerson Mnangagwa on March 30 2020 announced a 21-day lockdown as a way…

African states across the continent have enacted stringent measures aimed at containing the spread of COVID-19. From Kenya, to Egypt and South Africa, governmental leaders, labor unions, community organizations and professional groupings are contributing resources and talents to assist in the educational, testing and mitigation measures being implemented within their…

Illustration by Lochlan Donald for POLITICO The head of the World Health Organization is feeling the squeeze from the US and China. ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — As head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has achieved what he set out to accomplish: injecting politics into public health and…

HERE’S THE ‘1619’ FAR-LEFT CRANK WHO LOVES THE SOVIET UNION, ROBERT MUGABE, FIDEL CASTRO: Capital Research Center (CRC) presents the facts The New York Times and America’s Leftist Elite in the MSM, corporate boardrooms and on campus won’t tell you about who is behind “1619” and its fake history of…

Press freedom watchdogs say Zimbabwe’s government continues to stifle the media, despite promises by President Emmerson Mnangagwa to relax restrictions. Kudzanai Musengi was arrested recently as he tried to record police enforcing the lockdown rules imposed by the government to contain the coronavirus. Police said Musengi was filming them without…

The Public Service Union of Namibia says it plans engaging the government to secure risk allowance for health workers at the front line of the Covid-19 fight. Risk allowance is generally given to employees working in dangerous environments like ammunition factories, chemical handling, and operating huge cranes or in special…

A gang of robbers, fed with information by an inside accomplice, robbed a Harare businessman of US$59 000, by pretending to be police officers enforcing lockdown regulations and then two of them squandered the money on Mercedes Benz vehicles, leaving the informer out. Simba Kanyepi (24), an illegal foreign currency…

The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has called on government to be humane and stop its current demolitions on vendors's market stalls. ZCTU secretary-general, Japhet Moyo said the workers' group was dismayed over government's callous destruction of a source of livelihood for many in a suffering population. The current…

Over 360 000 calls have been made to the COVID-19 toll-free number, which was set up by the ministry of health to assist with answering questions, receiving complaints and addressing concerns over the COVID-19 pandemic. The number was set up after the country confirmed its first two coronavirus cases on…