September 2014 headlines

Tuesday 30 September, 2014

• Namibia disowns minister’s Zimbabwe Ebola scare
• We have been dumped – Mugabe
• ‘We can’t pay RBZ debt’
• Council to demolish 324 illegal settlements
• Zimbabwe is food secure this season
• Zim launches cotton export strategy
• Gumbo: Moyo does not speak for Zanu PF
• MDC Renewal: No reforms, no elections
• Community radios mull govt court challenge
• US: Incompetence the problem, not sanctions
• Worried regime lays Harvest House siege

Monday 29 September, 2014

• Mugabe Calls For Discipline In Zanu (PF)
• Oil reserves ‘discovered’ in Zimbabwe
• TB Joshua church collapse: Third Zimbabwean confirmed dead
• Tough fight for MDC-T secretary general
• Zim registers health, education gains
• Jonathan Moyo ‘real CIA spy’, Mliswa
• Govt faces fiscal crisis on bloated wage bill
• Grace Mugabe PhD scandal deepens
• Politburo showdown looms over Gono
• ZRP officers ordered to buy Zanu PF cards
• Council in midnight demolition blitz
• Govt awards extra $468m to ministries
• TV Channel dedicated to live Parly debates in pipeline
• China is taking advantage of the lack of competition and has therefore given us raw deals
• Zim to send large observer mission to Mozambique
• 300 000 housing units on the cards
• Zim to host mining indaba
• Zim seeks SA loans
• Zinwa wants to bill underground water users
• Running battles in Chitown, Epworth
• Hundreds Left Homeless as Zimbabwe Starts Demolishing ‘Illegal’ Houses

Saturday 27 September, 2014

• High Court relief for police persecution victims
• Corruption: Chinamasa says govt clueless
• Break-in at Mnangagwa’s offices
• Moyo hits back at ‘ignorant’ Gono
• Zimbabweans in SA can renew stay
• The Professions: Zim’s rotten judiciary
• Mugabe denounces ‘evil’ US, EU
• Chamisa poised for secretary general
• Bona grabs farm?
• Parly reluctant to call Gono
• ‘Audit Marange firms before merger’
• Chinamasa finalising new RBZ board — Mangudya
• Zanu PF desperate to save economy
• Tax spikes pile on misery for suffering employees
• Striking parallels between Grace, Elena
• Charge us fairly, Chinamasa tells South African banks
• Tsvangirai, Khupe remain favourites in Harare, Chitungwiza
• British company brings ICT to rural school

Friday 26 September, 2014

• Mugabe’s Daughter Allegedly Seizes White Farmer’s Land
• Corruption threatens Harare Water
• Chinese dragged to High Court
• Biti warns of economic collapse
• MDC MPs reject supplementary budget
• Zimbabwe looks beyond East
• Zimbabwe’s crisis is a crisis of leadership
• For poor countries, China is no model
• Minerals Act awaits AG’s scrutiny
• Byo rejects RBZ Debt Assumption Bill
• More woes for car importers
• Chinese firm awarded NewZim Steel tender
• Civil servants blast Chinamasa
• The money that they stole
• ConCourt confirms criminal defamation finally struck off
• CHRA denies MDC-T partnership
• Detractors plotted my senate disqualification: Gono
• Finance Bill passed
• MDC-T official’s body arrives in South Africa
• Sabi Mine chaos: Workers threaten to beat bosses
• Senate rejects Mugabe as trustee of Sovereign Wealth Fund
• Ethanol project to comply with empowerment laws
• ‘Poorly negotiated mining contracts killing sector’
• Bill Watch 37/2014 of 24th September

Thursday 25 September, 2014

• 3-story mansion
• Dr Grace
• Grace Mugabe and the case of her PhD
• Zimbabwe after Mugabe
• Be ready for ebola
• Non-stop praise
• Mnangagwa’s chances very slim
• Chatunga off to the UN
• Kadzura nails ex-Air Zim bosses
• Mugabe race gets dirtier
• Chinamasa: Govt wage bill embarrassing
• MPs hammer govt, reject $950m request
• Zinara officials grilled over road rehabilitation
• Mixed feelings over planned demos
• Agriculture ministry grilled over GMOs adoption
• IMF seeks donor support for Zim’s debt rescheduling
• Tollgate revenue doubles

Wednesday 24 September, 2014

• Special coins by November to ease Zimbabwe change woes
• Patients suffer as doctors, nurses abscond from duty
• Tsvangirai continues to douse fire
• US embassy denies ‘buying’ Zanu PF MPs
• Zimbabwe moves to activate African Development Bank grant

Tuesday 23 September, 2014

• Zim election secrets set to be exposed
• Chombo praises Mujuru’s ‘military prowess’
• A Zim Asset – Zimbabwe Vigil Diary: 13th September 2014
• Stealing farms will not empower society or grow our economy
• $300 000 for elephant, rhino conservation
• Respect public views on RBZ debt
• Grace Mugabe’s masters research ‘upgraded’ to PhD
• Tables turned – Zimbabwe Vigil Diary: 20th September 2014
• Boost for Tsvangirai : ZCTU, residents threaten to join demos
• Medicines control lab gets WHO nod
• Gono livid about $1.3b RBZ debt kerfuffle
• Mugabe off to New York for UN assembly
• China Deals: Zim’s Silent Revolution
• MDC-T Rejects Handpicking Of Leaders
• FlyAfrica cuts Hre-Joburg fares 80pc
• UK nurse makes sanitary pads for Zim
• Two million to need food aid: WFP
• RBZ debt: Chapfika got $80k, never repaid

Monday 22 September, 2014

• Cellphones replace NRZ signals
• MDC clears hurdles ahead of congress
• Tsvangirai to lead street protests against Mugabe
• Zim poll secrets exposed
• RBZ debt: Chapfika got $80k, never repaid
• Moyo officially dumps Tsvangirai
• Zanu PF MP lashes out at govt minister
• Figtree farmer David Connolly vows to defy Mugabe’s aide
• Tsvangirai suffers huge setback
• ‘Roy Bennett, Mutumwa Mawere have not joined Renewal’
• Bloch passes on
• Beitbridge Rd work stalls over court row

Saturday 20 September, 2014

• Zim to open world class medicines quality control lab
• Zanu (PF) will abandon chiefs after Mugabe
• HIT, Zimra in tax wrangle over donated equipment
• Bicycle programme gets girls back into school
• Zim seeks timber export market
• Zanu PF’s Georgias loses sanctions case
• Storm over $218m Net-One China loan
• Bickering Zanu PF mutes all but Gumbo
• Cops torture suspect to death
• ‘Bulawayo will never die,’ says Mugabe
• Deaths in police custody raise concern
• ‘Engage religious sects in health programmes’
• Accusations, counter accusations at AirZim fraud trial
• Violence, social inequalities force women out of politics
• Zimbabwe advertise for assistant coach, physio

Friday 19 September, 2014

• ZMDC to stave off Amari threat
• War vets vow to wrestle posts at congress
• Army worried by faction fighting
• Chinese firms partner govt in 1 200MW power station
• Zesa hit with $100m backpay bill
• ‘Land invaders criminals,’ says Obert Mpofu
• Zanu PF fights: House bombed
• No silver bullet to Zim’s economic woes
• Zanu PF rules out party split
• Economy to collapse if Z$ returns, minister
• $370m Zisco debt stalls Essar deal
• Zim led by ancient relics, MDC Renewal
• Leave white farmers alone: Minister
• Pro-Mnangagwa movement raided
• Holland takes over MDC renewal team leadership
• Civilians can lead Zim: Jabulani Sibanda
• Grace ejects Zanu youth leader
• Mnangagwa takeover bid exposed

Thursday 18 September, 2014

• Con-Court defers Gono, Kereke hearing
• Mutamba to fight suppression of Tuku book
• Magaya accuser chickens out
• Zimbabweans refuse to pay $1.3b RBZ debt
• Minister loses patience with Chinese miner
• Our friends are here, Bob tells ‘evil’ West
• Insurance marketing agent jailed 18 months
• Parly Speaker exposes Chinamasa
• 565 000 in rural areas require maize relief
• Zanu (PF) belongs to Mugabe
• We have to take climate change seriously
• Fishy endorsement
• State universities gone to the dogs
• Old stories – current message
• Demolition of informal trading structures
• The miraculous graduate
• Making marbles from manure
• Harare: The Great White Colony
• Zanu PF pestering us for economic advice — Chamisa
• NetOne applies for datacasting licence
• Mugabe nephew raises alarm

Wednesday 17 September, 2014

• Stop this madness
• Govt to clamp down on phone cards, used cans littering
• Baba Jukwa suspect fined for possession of firearm
• Kasukuwere threatens to evict 3 500 timber plantation settlers
• Govt must reduce wage bill
• Mixed fortunes for mining sector
• World Bank approves establishment of development fund
• China’s lesson and response to Zimbabwe
• Russia, Zimbabwe to Develop Nation’s Biggest Platinum Mine
• Supreme Court gives nod for sale of 29 AirZim vehicles
• Zimbabwe inflation eases to 0.15 percent in August: Zimstats

Tuesday 16 September, 2014

• Jabulani Sibanda defends farm invaders
• ‘Zim losing $17bn in diamond revenue’
• Harare – Mutare rail way line construction to begin soon
• Mugabe my only rival, Mujuru declares
• Corruption: Let’s be ruthless like China
• Govt alarm over Mujuru’s India attack
• MDC-T gets confrontational
• Impossible to have clean voters roll by 2018 – Zesn
• Zimbabwe’s black granite faces possible ban
• Debt Assumption Bill under public scrutiny

Monday 15 September, 2014

• Harare City Council Owed $280m
• Time To Pile Pressure On Mugabe Is Now: Tsvangirai
• High fuel costs, ageing planes cripple AirZim
• IMF team set for Zim
• Harder times ahead
• Policy inconsistency, our own undoing
• Govt on high alert for measles
• It’s now Dr Grace and Dr Mujuru!

Saturday 13 September, 2014

• Simba Makoni calls out Mugabe on sanctions, labels him ‘incompetent’
• Senior MDC founding official dies
• No boxes of cash from China, Mugabe
• Oscar Pistorius guilty of culpable homicide
• Succession stalling economy, Mutsvangwa
• People waiting for ‘the event’, Mafume
• Mugabe reminisces about late wife Sally
• Punish errant ministers: Mnangagwa
• Secret ballot fuels new Zanu PF row
• MDC-T relaxes elections guidelines
• ‘Succession fight may destabilise Zim’
• Rural poverty on the rise in Zim
• Hwange fault triggers massive load-shedding
• Bleak future as Chinamasa introduces new taxes
• Mugabe stops in Singapore for medical attention
• Mujuru camp under fire in Masvingo
• Opposition slams Mid-Term Fiscal Review Statement
• Chiwenga evicts estranged wife from farm
• Extension of Defence Forces retirement age
• Nhema moves to revive youth fund
• Grace Mugabe populist rants suicidal
• Zim consumers over-borrowed
• Are the Draft Local Government Bills Constitutional?
• Govt to complete Chinese power joint venture
• Govt in $218m budget deficit in first half-year
• Lesotho: Zuma will not brief Mugabe

Friday 12 September, 2014

• Companies risk folding — Chinamasa
• Tsvangirai won’t back down on jobs demos
• Grace for president?
• Pistorius not guilty of murder, judge to decide on culpable homicide
• ‘Govt not going back on gazetted farms’
• Police cells are fast becoming unsafe for suspects
• Bill Watch – Parliamentary Committees 45/2014
• Intra-party plot to oust Zanu (PF) MP
• Informal traders finally kicked out of Meikles Park
• MDC-T bigwigs battle
• We were tricked: Chiefs
• No money for Zanu congress
• New Zimra measures to stoke price hikes
• Coltart: Bob not your usual 91 year-old
• China can’t feed us
• Black farmers have let us down: Mavhaire
• Kariba power expansion project cost inflated: Biti
• Zimbabwe to adopt single Sadc visa

Thursday 11 September, 2014

• Mugabe’s Zhing-Zhong Legacy
• Mugabe throwing rocks at the White House
• Of Chinese deals and mega propaganda
• Zim needs policy certainty: US
• Refinery poser after mine collapses
• Mujuru attains PhD
• Be careful how you read
• Generals
• Zimbabwe pays almost R2 billion to service Chinese loans
• Gideon Gono’s fate lies with the Supreme Court
• Zanu-PF to spy on ‘rogue’ members
• Indian on trial for fleecing Bob’s nephew
• ‘Gucci Grace’ claims Mugabe a poor man
• Mugabe ought to name successor now
• Behind closed doors: What the Chinese (could have) said
• What kind of partner is China?
• Weakness of Opposition Parties
• Land grab spree threatens crocodile project
• ‘CIO agents’ haunt Mberengwa donor
• China largest tobacco export market for Zimbabwe
• Grace Mugabe’s pictures raise storm
• Spirit mediums wade into Zanu PF fights
• No more singing in Parliament — Mudenda
• What did Mugabe promise China?
• Bill Watch 34/2014 of 9th September
• I would vote for a White Candidate in Zimbabwean 2018 election

Wednesday 10 September, 2014

• State media feel heat of Zanu PF factionalism
• Bid to scuttle Joice Mujuru
• ZimAsset must add a line on ‘how not to be stupid’
• Parliament moots banning analogue TV set imports
• Policy uncertainty weighs down Zim
• Tsvangirai faces stern test over amendments
• Welshman Ncube’s MDC blasts Zanu-PF over devolution
• Parly Speaker warns govt of civil unrest
• ‘Grace-mania’ hits Harare streets
• Zim holds third Antwerp gem auction
• Government urged to release $7,6m for GMB rehab
• Misa castigates Zanu PF attacks on private media
• Radio licence hearings move to Harare

Tuesday 9 September, 2014

• RBZ floats $50m bond for special coins
• Mujuru hits back
• Khaya Moyo cracks whip
• Jonathan Moyo, Tendai Savanhu in near blows at airport
• Govt fails to unlock $51m Chinese facility
• Government to construct 2,000 schools
• Mangoma: I’m no Biti poodle, respects ex-PM
• ‘Tax’ the Mafia – Zimbabwe Vigil Diary: 6th September 2014
• Lions kill safaris employee
• Education fund ensures sector’s survival — Report
• No business in new cars in Zimbabwe
• ‘New Victoria Falls airport a game changer’
• Power Project Cost Raises Suspicion

Monday 8 September, 2014

• Grace will never rule Zimbabwe: Misihairabwi
• No Meetings on Monday 8th September
• Hurdles cleared for Gono’s Senate post
• Boot-licking killing Zanu PF — Dongo
• MDC will form next govt: Tsvangirai
• Tsvangirai speaks out
• Activist Thomas Deve Dies
• Mzembi’s dream needs govt support
• BAZ concerned about media cross ownership
• School curriculum review on cards
• MINING GOLD: Mercury poisoning: The slow, silent killer
• Unpacking Chinese deals
• ‘Arrest Zanu-PF farm invaders,’ says Obert Mpofu
• Zanu-PF elections to be held under a secret ballot system
• Zanu-PF official suspended
• Kick out remaining whites — Mugabe
• New lease of life for generals
• Grace will never rule Zimbabwe: Misihairabwi

Saturday 6 September, 2014

• MDC-T MP arrested over weekend assault
• US VP held ‘off-radar’ Gono meeting
• Biti-led faction expels youth leaders
• ‘Processed tobacco would have earned Zim $65 billion’
• Lawyers seek to depose Zimbabwe president
• Don’t go to opposition media: President
• Ministers’ vehicles: A scandal that will not die
• Four judges lose chamber keys
• UK police launch hunt for HIV rapist
• Grace Mugabe moves to build support base
• ZCTU fires salvo at MDC-T
• Govt moves to tighten border controls
• Chinese deals pie in the sky
• Succession hurting economy: Analysts
• Mujuru prevails
• Ruthless clashes in Zanu PF politburo
• Women ‘chicken out’ in political wrangles
• Let’s now look beyond Mugabe
• Khaya Moyo gathers ministers
• Bloody Coup Looms in Zimbabwe, Top Analysts Say
• UZ students squatting like rats
• Inefficiency, delays cost government money: Mugabe
• Succession issue recipe for disaster
• Dissecting Mugabe succession matrix
• Heated showdown at Zanu PF’s 10-hour Politburo meeting
• Updated: Two die in Air Force plane crash
• The many faces of Zimbabwe
• Kariba South Power Station to empower Zimbabweans, President
• Breaking news: Two die in Air Force plane crash

Friday 5 September, 2014

• ZIMRA descends on vendors
• BAZ bans social media postings
• Parliamentary Committee Meetings
• Report: Zec admits it was rocked by corruption during 2013 elections
• Court grants MDC-T activists immediate medical exam application
• ’90% Zimbabweans have no access to medical aid’
• TZ leads in online news
• Zimbabwe toughens import measures
• Preps for MDC congress on course
• Mujuru camp rattled by Mugabe’s outbursts, 2 key members jump ship
• Chinese company handpicked for Vic Falls airport
• Police thwart Zanu-PF mob
• Mutasa, Khaya Moyo break ranks over Zanu-PF chairmanship
• Mugabe is supreme says Gumbo
• We are in it together: Nick Mangwana
• Illegal structures to be spared
• Parly rumpus over China trip secrecy
• MDC-T plans ConCourt demos challenge
• Only 50pct of firms paying NSSA dues
• Grace’s rise claims first scalp
• ‘Chidyausiku office break-in due to Zanu PF factional fights’
• Politburo upholds conference results
• Mliswa faces contempt charges
• China to fund bankable projects — Chinamasa
• Zesa in salary storm
• Parastatals remuneration audit on
• Ban non-digital TV sets imports: Parly
• ZAMCO going for secured debt only
• MDC-T MP, activists stay in custody
• Zimbabwe Crisis Sees Pensioners Rear Chickens, Do Odd Jobs
• Kariba South power station expansion work begins

Thursday 4 September, 2014

• Both Houses of Parliament Are Sitting This Week
• Mugabe meets faction leaders
• Cricket
• Trying times for civil society
• ‘Western aid depends on acceptance of homosexuality’
• Mugabe seeks diamond polishing partnership with China
• CASE invests $10m towards Gwayi dam construction
• Big Brother Africa cancelled after house burned down
• Women’s league welcome
• We must now arise
• No joy for Jukwa suspects
• Name, shame traitors: Zhuwao
• Mugabe the brains behind Grace’s political rise
• Mugabe faces challenge to restore discipline in Zanu PF
• Drug-resistant malaria vector re-emerges
• Parirenyatwa must stand his ground
• Mliswa faces contempt of Parliament charges
• Misihairabwi-Mushonga exposes fake war vets in Parly
• Used car import ban looms
• Mugabe using divide-and-rule tactics – Dongo
• Demonstrators picked up in Harare South
• Legislator slams party chefs over vote buying
• No to corruption
• A lawless state
• Mugabe returns empty handed
• Chinese money trees
• The Independence Dividend
• Mugabe must act on corruption

Wednesday 3 September, 2014

• More toll gates open
• Jukwa: Cops want to visit Google in US
• SADC to receive normal rainfall
• Bogus Zimra official nabbed
• No big name takers for Tsvangirai offer
• Asiagate: Where are the denialists
• Zinara takes over road fees collection
• Zim set to join elite financial market
• CMED seeks to recover stolen funds
• Infant deaths rate declines
• Ex-Zipra combatants attack Jonathan Moyo
• Air Zim needs $340m for new wings
• Zanu PF faction wants Mugabe out, Gumbo
• Mugabe being misled – Gumbo
• Anti Corruption Commission dispute referred to Labour Court
• Radio licence hearings move to Bulawayo
• Freedom of Expression Case
• Kereke Eternally Enmeshed In Debt Woes

Tuesday 2 September, 2014

• Chief Justice Chidyausiku burgled
• Zanu PF has caused poverty: Tsvangirai
• Zimplats commences work on refinery
• Zanu PF ‘national chair’ post open to all: Jonathan Moyo
• ‘Allow raped women to abort’
• Mangoma launches ‘livelihoods scheme’
• Zanu PF Hre emperor’s ‘head’ offends Bob
• I fear for my life: Elizabeth
• Biti, Mangoma deny rivalry, blast Ex-PM
• Mugabe: Victim of Zanu PF lies
• Mugabe returns from China with signatures
• Kereke’s ‘rape case’ appeal date set
• Health scare hits Kadoma
• Ordinary Zimbabweans can still afford enough food
• Lesotho coup: Mugabe’s chance to flex muscles
• Minister’s powers to be whittled down
• SA turns truckers away over ebola
• Lesotho coup: Zim on fact finding visit
• The empty vessel – Zimbabwe Vigil Diary: 30th August 2014
• British tourist survives Nyanga Mountain ordeal
• MDC, Zanu PF blamed for abuses spike
• Minister: Stop giving cows ‘contraceptives’
• Zim’s ‘First shopper’ rattles Zanu PF
• Mugabe wins at Beijing bingo

Monday 1 September, 2014

• Child TB cases go untreated
• MPs steal from each other
• Corrupt ministers face jail: President
• Youth leader names, shames chefs
• Grain imports chew US$3bn – Banker
• Zimbabweans’ lives improve: Report
• MDC-T on frantic begging spree
• Social services sector records progress
• I am ready to lead, says Gideon Gono
• What a shameless charade!