Cllr Scoffs At New Allowance, Demands Motorbike
By Correspondent Masvingo City Councillor for Ward 9, Benard Muchokwa, has dismissed as peanuts recent Council allowance increments. Instead, Muchokwa said the Ministry of Local Government should provide motorbikes together with better allowances. “There is no increament to talk of here.“The money is less that US$50 if we want to convert it. “Councilors are just […]
Zimdancehall Holds Some Lessons For Council
By Wisdom Mumera Zimdancehall has been a self-made guy with equal measures of talent and stupidity conveyed creatively as conscious artistic creations. The organic yin yang nature of nonsense and acute wisdom encapsulated within its street lingo lyrics means many enjoy it with both revulsion and pornographic contentment. In public you revile it but in […]
Chamisa’s Odinga Pattern Is Ominous
By Wisdom Mumera After five attempts Kenya’s veteran opposition politician Raila Odinga last year failed to win against former Vice President William Ruto. His post-election discourse was the same. I was rigged and will contest the results in the courts. That didn’t work either. At 77 years it appears that Odinga may have reached the […]
Has The Kombi Mafia Taken Over Harare CBD?
By Correspondent With a staggering average collection of over US$1 million each month CBD rank marshals have become a strong factor in Harare’s transport sector. The rank marshals are allegedly working with corrupt ZRP and municipal officers to control the hundreds of buses in the CBD. The system is such as well-oiled mechanism such that […]
Hazvibhadhare, ndiri kutambira nzungu muchindiona kudai: Coltart
‘’…kuda kune vamwe vanogona kufunga handizvo kuti ndinopihwa US$25 pamwedzi kuti ndive Mayor, tarisai gwaro remuhoro wangu waNdira (payslip for January).
I’m Not Going To Resign-Coltart
By Correspondent Bulawayo Mayor David Coltart has revealed that he isn’t resigning as he has pressing city issues to deal with. Coltart also revealed that Chamisa had not asked him to resign during a private phone call. In a statement the Mayor said he would have preferred that no one resigned. “As I indicated last […]
Chamisa Is Done But Doesn’t Know It Yet
OPINION By Pieter Ziegler Nelson Chamisa’s exit from the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) was as sudden as it was shocking. Yet, in the context of his two losses in both 2013 and 2018, such a sudden exit makes sense. It’s actually a convenient shedding of old skin in a bid to reprise his vaunted […]
Tshabangu’s Candidate Drags CCC Councillors To Court, Again!
“Sengezo Tshabangu tortoises (are seeking) the Electoral Court to nullify the 9 December 2023 election of popular City of Bulawayo Ward 9, 21 and 22 councillors. These are Councillors Donaldson Mabutho, Tinovimbo Maposa and Bruce Mmeli Moyo.
Mafume Wins Mayoral Post As Chamisa Loses Again
Mafume polled 22 votes against Ruzani’s 14. ZANU-PF candidate Temany Utete got a paltry 4 votes. However the return of Mafume to the post which he held after the 2018 elections has not been without controversy.
Recalled Norton Councilors Dump CCC, File As Independents
The issue of recalls is tricky and we feel that standing as independents is currently better. Those who were stubborn and tried to contest under CCC were recently barred by ZEC. So it doesn’t make sense to follow the same failed path,”