Zanu-PF leadership shut down some power grab from Manicaland province after they tried sneaking presidential adviser Paul Tungwarara onto the central committee without following the rulebook. National commissar Munyaradzi Machacha sent a letter killing the whole thing because the provincial crew ignored party guidelines that say replacements have to come from the same district as whoever left, and Tungwarara was not from Chipinge like the person he was supposed to replace. Machacha also warned everyone that handing out cash or goodies to delegates counts as vote buying and gets you bounced immediately.
Word on the street is that Tungwarara dropped money and bought meals for the people who backed him during the meeting. The guy built...
Candidates fighting over the Nkulumane seat went head-to-head at a public forum where Zanu-PF's Freedom Murechu claimed his party connections would unlock government money for local projects, while independent challenger Rodney Jele fired back that centralized control from Harare killed urban development after opposition councils took power. Murechu pointed at recent improvements in other constituencies that flipped back to the ruling party and said he already drilled a borehole with personal cash, but Jele countered that Bulawayo collapsed when the national government stripped away local autonomy and forced everything through the capital.
Independent hopeful Mbuso Fuzwayo said nobody can fix the constituency alone, and everyone needs...
Zanu-PF's commissariat boss Munyaradzi Machacha says the ruling party pulled 437,000 people away from opposition groups through some campaign that tells former rivals to come back home. The party set up a whole department just to process everyone bailing on the other side, and Machacha wants these switchers to join local cells right away.
Defections hit 187,000 just this year after another 250,000 came over earlier, which the party sees as proof that opposition politics are dead while their development agenda keeps winning converts. The campaign even scored Morgan Tsvangirai's brother Collins, and Machacha thinks this momentum will basically make Zimbabwe a one-party state again without needing any laws.
Some guy working to get independent candidate Mbuso Fuzwayo elected in the Nkulumane area got threats from what appears to be a Zanu-PF supporter who rolled up to his house and said he would torch the place. Colbert Mahonondo was putting up campaign materials when the person showed up in a party-branded car and confronted him about rallying voters for Fuzwayo, and the whole thing scared Mahonondo enough that his team rushed over after he called them freaking out.
Fuzwayo is running against eight other people for the seat and says his posters keep getting ripped down by suspected ruling party activists who cannot handle competition. One of his rivals had a campaign worker bail to Zanu-PF this week, but a spokesperson said losing that...
Zimbabwe has been sitting on roughly 85 million dollars it yanked from government worker paychecks to cover microfinance loans, and that pile has been collecting dust for five months straight. CBZ affiliate Red Sphere Finance stopped issuing any new loans to civil servants after the government basically ghosted everyone, and word on the street says smaller lenders are shutting down left and right because they cannot float operations without those remittances coming through.
The paymaster who handles civil servant salaries claimed the holdup was some deliberate liquidity management trick rather than broke government syndrome, and he promised 150 microfinance outfits would get paid before the year wraps. Anonymous sources contradicted...
Masvingo cops grabbed some Mirror reporters who went to check out water pipe damage at a disputed property tied to provincial minister Ezra Chadzamira, but the trespassing charges flopped after a three-hour detention. Police then pivoted to investigating whether the newspaper's Toyota Aqua matched a vehicle caught on security cameras during robberies that netted cash from a local store, and they forced the accountant to hand over registration docs for verification at the road authority.
The car got cleared by officials who confirmed everything was legit and up to date with fees, but sources claim people pretending to be intelligence agents and working for Chadzamira kept pressuring law enforcement to nail the journalists with...
Zimbabwe President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa just hooked up the Zanu PF old-timers with 10 Ford Everest SUVs at some ceremony, and he threw in laptops plus Apple gear for the party propaganda crew. The Elders Council has former bigwigs like Sydney Sekeramayi running point, and they basically advise the president on party drama whenever things get messy at the top.
Sekeramayi gave the typical speech about how the country keeps building stuff under this administration, while another elder thanked the president for remembering they exist. Christopher Mutsvangwa from the Information Department said the tech donation came right when Zimbabwe rolled out some new economic blueprint, and he spent most of his time gushing about how even the...
Zimbabwe wants cops to actually crack down on people messing with their phones behind the wheel after way too many crashes got blamed on distracted drivers. Deputy Minister Joshua Sacco and a bunch of transport stakeholders met up in Harare for a workshop thrown by the Traffic Safety Council and the telecom regulator, and they talked about how texting while driving basically wrecks everything because it pulls your eyes off the road and scrambles your brain at the same time.
Sacco pointed out that even though the roads themselves have gotten better under some national development plan, drivers still keep causing wrecks by scrolling through their devices instead of paying attention. The Zimbabwe Public Transport Organisation chairman...
Some dude in Zimbabwe basically ransacked his brother's place and grabbed a grinding mill plus four animals after finding out the guy knocked up his wife, but Chief Makoni's court said that whole vigilante compensation thing was bogus. Michael Dzomba got dragged to the community court by his brother, Itai Mashumba, who wanted everything back since no actual legal ruling told Dzomba to pay up in the first place.
The chief ruled that Mashumba pulled an extortion move because Dzomba handed over stuff under pressure without proper adultery proceedings, and he ordered all the seized property returned immediately. Mashumba then filed a formal adultery complaint right there in court, showing text messages where his wife told Dzomba the kid...
