The Movement for Democratic Change favoured a people-driven constitution that was not tied to any pre-existing documents while the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front preferred the Kariba draft which had been agreed by the three parties in 2007 but never adopted. The Kariba draft would have strengthened President Robert Mugabe and allowed him to die
Zimbabwe, which rarely receives positive coverage from South Africa, has received a major fillip with the Standard Bank of South Africa saying the country's economy, which has been on a free fall for five years, could record positive growth as early as next year. Central bank governor, Gideon Gono, the architect of the country's recovery
An opposition Member of Parliament yesterday urged political parties not to take political issues to funerals because funerals are not rallies. Priscilla Misihairabwi-Mushonga, a legislator for the Movement for Democratic Change-Tsvangirai, told Parliament that the death of Vimbai Tsvangirai-Java, who represented the Movement for Democratic Change Alliance, had united the nation across the political divide
The shortage of water in Bulawayo, which has gripped the city for the past four months, has turned political. The mayor, Japhet Ndabeni-Ncube, has accused the Bulawayo United Residents Association (BURA) of trying to politicise the issue after the association called on the government to fire the entire council and appoint a commission to run
Sengezo Tshabangu, the self-proclaimed interim secretary general of the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), revealed today that he received a call from CCC lea.