What the hell is this?

September 26, 2011

In one of the vaguest cables released by Wikileaks, the United States embassy in Harare sent out a list of…

Chombo announces ultra fast-track land reform

September 26, 2011

Local Government Minister Ignatius Chombo announced at the beginning of May 2001 that the government was introducing an ultra fast-track…

StanChart plan rejected

September 26, 2011

The government was today reported to have rejected Standard Chartered's ownership plan for its Zimbabwean unit because it falls below…

Fast-track land reform divides white farmers

September 25, 2011

The concerted fast-track land reform that the government had embarked on since 2000 had divided white farmers by February 2001…

ZANU-PF broke

September 25, 2011

The Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front is broke, reports said today. A South African paper said the party will have…

The Ignatius Chombo Wikileaks dossier

September 24, 2011

Local Government Minister Ignatius Chombo, who was exposed by his former wife in an acrimonious divorce as one of the…

MDC challenges Mugabe presidential decree

September 24, 2011

There was keen interest from diplomats and other political watchers when the Movement for Democratic Change challenged a decree issued…

No constituency funds

September 24, 2011

Legislators are not getting the US$50 000 Constituency Development Funds this year because of the unbudgeted rise in civil servants…

Chombo says get your own plot- we will sort things out later

September 23, 2011

Local Government Minister Ignatius Chombo told peasants who had invaded commercial farms to in the Darwendale area to demarcate their…

Chombo described as a non-entity in Mugabe’s cabinet

September 23, 2011

Local Government Minister Ignatius Chombo was described as a non-entity in President Robert Mugabe’s 2000 cabinet which saw him bring…