Zimbabwe Insider - Part 1539

  • Chombo appoints commission to run Harare

    Local Government Minister Ignatius Chombo appointed an eight-member commission to run the City of Harare and though they were all from the private sector they...

  • Chombo fires Mudzuri

    Local Government Minister Ignatius Chombo fired Harare’s first publicly elected mayor Elias Mudzuri but did not give any reasons except that this was a result...

  • Nigerian President leaves Zimbabwe empty handed

    Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo made a last minute bid to broker talks between the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front and the Movement for Democratic Change...

  • Police harass MDC MPs

    Police arrested four Members of Parliament belonging to the Movement for Democratic Change and 28 other MDC officials in three weeks at the beginning of...

  • The Joseph Chinotimba Wikileaks dossier

    Joseph Chinotimba, the self-styled commander of farm invasions, rose from nowhere in 2000 to become a hero and one of the most feared people in...

  • The differing views of the ZCTU and the ZFTU

    The country’s two major labour federations the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions and the Zimbabwe Federation of Trade Unions did not only have different profiles,...