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Nelson Chamisa, Tendai Biti and crew face trouble as Zanu PF plots to introduce tough law.PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa’s Zanu PF is considering enacting a law that will make it criminal for any Zimbabwean to call for sanctions against the country or be found in any suspicious engagement with foreign enemies of the country. This was revealed by party Chief Whip, Pupurayi Togarepi on the sidelines of a government organised anti-sanctions march in Harare on Friday.“You will see from now going forward that those who go out looking for sanctions, talking to foreign forces against the people of Zimbabwe, asking for sanctions to be imposed on our people, as parliamentarians we will ensure we take a stance against them. “It is not going to be business as usual,” he told NewZimbabwe.Togarepi, who is also secretary for Zanu PF’s militant youth league, last year promised to push for the enactment of a Patriots Law he said should invite death by hanging as punishment if one is caught...

Nelson Chamisa speaks out after Mnangagwa addressed a near empty stadium.OPPOSITION MDC leader Nelson Chamisa said the poor turnout at the government-organised anti-sanctions march last Friday served to confirm President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Zanu PF’s fast shrinking support base. Mnangagwa, buoyed by solidarity messages from other Sadc leaders, led a national march against the Western-imposed sanctions in Harare on Friday, declaring the day a public holiday to enable Zimbabweans to attend in large numbers.The ruling party youths had pledged to mobilise at least 50 000 people for the main event at the giant 60 000-seater National Sports Stadium (NSS) in Harare, but only about 7 000 — mostly State security agents and students attended. This is despite the provision of government-sourced free transport, food, T-shirts, a soccer match and an all-night musical extravaganza after Mnangagwa had addressed a near empty stadium.“There was a big sign in the stadium,” Chamisa said, re...

PARTIES to the Tripartite Negotiating Forum (TNF) — Government, business and labour — will convene on 8 November to discuss “critical issues facing the economy”.It will be the second meeting under the body, which was officially launched on 5 June when President Emmerson Mnangagwa signed the TNF Bill into an Act. Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare Minister Dr Sekai Nzenza told our Harare Bureau there have been inordinate delays in convening the second meeting because there was a need to properly constitute TNF structures in compliance with the Act.While the management committee, whose mandate is to set the agenda, had not been fully constituted, the technical committee — charged with preparing documents for the main TNF — was also still discussing, she said. “The TNF technical committee is expected to formally assign clusters work to be executed leading into the main TNF meeting scheduled for November 8, 2019,” said Minister Nzenza.“It is hoped the main TNF will con...

John Mangudya's NEW Zimbabwe currency, more details REVEALED.THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe will in the next two weeks introduce new currency notes to be interchangeably used at par with bond coins and notes,. in a move expected to ease the cash crunch, central bank governor Dr John Mangudya has said.The injection of new cash into the economy, which will see an upward review of daily cash withdrawals will also help to curb high premiums on cash.Briefing the media after the inaugural meeting of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) today, Dr Mangudya said the central bank would introduce new two and five dollar notes that will be used alongside the bond notes and coins.Harare Mayor Councillor Hebert Gomba reveals when water rationing will end.Harare residents should embrace the continued rationing of water in all suburbs until the rains begin, Harare Mayor Councillor Hebert Gomba has said.Speaking during the State of the City Address (SOCA) today at Town House, Cllr Go...

I have good news, the end of Mnangagwa is coming close.Zimbabwe is sitting on a time bomb that can explode anytime because of President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s poor governance.This was said yesterday by Movement for Democratic Change Alliance (MDCA) president Nelson Chamisa. Speaking in an interview with The Standard, Chamisa said the country was degenerating into deeper crisis every day and its people were in such pain it now posed a serious threat to national security.“Zimbabwe is a ticking time bomb. We are sitting on a time bomb,” Chamisa said.“Zimbabwe is suffering; it is in serious crisis that runs the risk of imploding soon.We have a hungry population, a nation that is in pain. No citizen is without a charge sheet against government: pensioners, vendors, women, youths, the unemployed, nurses, doctors, teachers and workers in the private sector among them, and this is a fact.”.He added: “As I speak, there is hunger in the townships, villages, farms, police posts and polic...

War vets attack Mnangagwa as economy plunges.A GROUP of war veterans yesterday formed a splinter group, accusing Zanu PF, President Emmerson Mnangagwa and the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA) of failing the country through corruption and fanning political violence. The war veterans, led by Wilbert Sadomba, a former Christopher Mutsvangwa-led ZNLWVA secretary for education, said they had now formed a new apolitical war veterans association, the Zimbabwe Liberation Platform (ZLP).The original ZLP was the brainchid of the late liberation war stalwart, Wilfred Mhanda, whose Chimurenga name was Dzinashe Machingura. “This is what we have realised that as long as we remain subservient to a political party.it has got its own ideologies, its own leadership that if we try to be critical, it has to take the practices and culture of that political party and we won’t be able to actually play our role as an overseer of the liberation objectives,” Sadomba said...