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Chris Mbanga

Kasukuwere plot gives MDC-T headaches

By Tatenda Dewa | Harare Bureau | What started off as a Zanu PF plot to undermine opposition dominance at the Harare municipality has generated turbulence in the MDC-T which has recalled the Acting Mayor, Chris Mbanga, who was appointed on the party’s ticket. The capital’s local authority is dominated by the MDC-T which has […]

Harare City saga rages as suspended town clerk orders replacement out

By Tatenda Dewa | Harare Bureau | The saga at the Harare municipality continues to rage, with suspended Town Clerk, James Mushore ordering Josephine Ncube who was acting in his place to vacate office for alleged insubordination. Mushore was recently appointed town clerk to replace Tendai Mahachi but government overruled the appointment, insisting that he […]

How not to be a mayor

By Andrew Kunambura At the helm of Harare is acting mayor, Chris Mbanga. The city, Zimbabwe’s capital, is a metropolitan that seems to be sinking, each day, under the weight of garbage piling up in the central business district and suburbs. The unbearable stench from the refuse heaps bears testimony to a tragedy of unmanageable […]

Harare mayor application dismissed

By Helen Kadirire Suspended Harare mayor Bernard Manyenyeni’s bid to be reinstated hit a brick-wall yesterday after a High Court judge dismissed his application challenging his suspension by Local Government minister Saviour Kasukuwere. Manyenyeni was suspended after he appointed former NMBZ Holdings group chief executive officer James Mushore as the new town clerk in defiance of […]

MDC-T takes on Saviour Kasukuwere

By Andrew Kunambura The Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T) is moving to forestall Local Government Minister Saviour Kasukuwere’s attempts to weaken its influence on the remaining urban strongholds under its dominion as the country’s political parties brace for a gruelling encounter at the 2018 general elections. Since his appointment to the ZANU-PF commissariat and as […]

Fifa get Asiagate Scandal update

FIFA development officer for Southern Africa Ashford Mamelodi flew into the country last night for a weeklong visit during which he is expected to get an update on Asiagate and the challenges that have emanated against Zifa over the sanctions imposed.

PM Tsvangirai fires Maridadi over office affair

Although the weekly Financial Gazette reported that Maridadi had been removed as the PM’s spokesman as part of a restructuring exercise Nehanda Radio can exclusively reveal that the former Radio 3 DJ is in fact in hot soup after having an affair with Tsvangirai’s secretary at Munhumutapa Building in Harare.