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2014

Econet refuses to slash tariffs

Mobile operators, NetOne and Telecel have moved in to comply with the Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (POTRAZ)’s directive to slash voice tariffs from 23 cents to 15 cents per minute, but Econet remains defiant.

MDC salivates as Zanu PF implodes

HARARE – Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC is salivating at the prospects of contesting dozens of by-elections across the country should the brutal infighting within President Robert Mugabe’s ruling Zanu PF party result in the booting out of up to 100 ruling party legislators from Parliament.

VP Mnangagwa is a marked man

In an article published 28 December 2014, by the Sunday Mail entitled: “Minister in Acting First Lady gaffe,” it is reported that the Minister of State for Mashonaland West, Mr. Faber Chidarikire – who introduced the Acting Vice President Hon. Mnangagwa’s wife as Acting First Lady at a party celebrating the recent appointment of Hon. Prisca Mupfumira to the Politburo and cabinet as Minister of Public Service, Labour and Social Services – is reportedly to be in trouble for the remarks.

VP Mnangagwa: Why Prof Moyo is right

I have been struggling like many people to appreciate the legal, moral and constitutional basis of the anger expressed against the notion that in appointing the two VPs, President Mugabe had any intention to pass on the baton to one of them.