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Fresh cracks rock Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF
A STORM is brewing in Zanu-PF over the ruling party's newly-launched war veterans' wing - pitting many former freedom fighters against their national spokesperson Douglas Mahiya.This comes as ...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 18:16hrs | 4360 | by Staff reporter
Headache for Zacc
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) is having a massive headache trying to recover billions of dollars stashed outside the country in the form of funds and properties, the Daily News report...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 19:49hrs | 4129 | by Staff reporter
Plot to oust Khupe gathers pace
VULTURES are circling over MDC-T acting president Thokozani Khupe with insiders saying there is a plot to oust her by end of this month after she failed to convene an extraordinary congress (EOC) with...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 08:22hrs | 15437 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa told to engage rivals
RETURNING Zanu-PF liberation stalwart, Rugare Gumbo, pictured, has implored President Emmerson Mnangagwa to join hands with the opposition and other social formations to end the country's deepening po...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 18:50hrs | 3473 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bigwig in court over land deal
FORMER Zanu-PF legislator Goodwills Masimirembwa has been dragged to court over a botched residential stand sale involving US$72 500.In an application, Donald and Sharon Makanyanga want the Hi...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 17:46hrs | 526 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's party burns, Zanu-PF rejoices
NELSON Chamisa has everything to gain by embracing the growing calls for unity talks between him and interim MDC leader Thokozani Khupe - and everything to lose by spurning the mooted dialogue, analys...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 18:17hrs | 2998 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa vows to fight back
MDC-Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has vowed to fight against the recall of his legislators from Parliament by the rival Thokozani Khupe-led MDC-T.Khupe recalled a total of 13 MDC-Alliance leg...Published: 25 Jun 2020 at 16:21hrs | 5976 | by Staff reporter
Khupe inflicts more damage
INTERIM MDC leader Thokozani Khupe unleashed more carnage in the deeply-divided main opposition party yesterday, recalling nine more of her legislators from Parliament.This comes as the sensel...Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 17:20hrs | 668 | by Staff reporter
Law changes to give Mnangagwa edge on succession
A PROPOSED new law which seeks to empower President Emmerson Mnangagwa, to handpick his deputies could see him deciding who takes over after him both as Zanu-PF's and the country's new leader....Published: 21 Jun 2020 at 17:02hrs | 2185 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa told to fix politics to save economy
BOTH political and economic experts have implored President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Zanu-PF to move with urgency to resolve Zimbabwe's long running political crisis if the deepening local economic rot ...Published: 19 Jun 2020 at 17:19hrs | 5989 | by Staff reporter
Zesa to develop debt recovery plan
ENERGY and Power Development minister Fortune Chasi has directed the board of the financially hamstrung power utility Zesa to come up with strategies to recover US$1,2 billion it is owed by customers,...Published: 19 Jun 2020 at 08:20hrs | 1812 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa now keen to resolve his political differences with Mnangagwa
DESPITE the ructions tearing the MDC apart, Nelson Chamisa says he remains ready to engage with President Emmerson Mnangagwa, in a bid to try and end the country's worsening political and economic cri...Published: 17 Jun 2020 at 17:57hrs | 6478 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa now keen to talk with Mnangagwa
DESPITE the ructions tearing the MDC apart, Nelson Chamisa says he remains ready to engage with President Emmerson Mnangagwa, in a bid to try and end the country's worsening political and economic cri...Published: 17 Jun 2020 at 07:12hrs | 15641 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bigwigs snub Chiwenga
TOP Zanu-PF officials and legislators from the Midlands province on Friday reportedly snubbed a field day at Lozani Farm, Kwekwe, where Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga was guest of honour as facti...Published: 15 Jun 2020 at 07:58hrs | 6811 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt warns corrupt lawyers
Government has raised concern over a web of corruption spawned by some lawyers who contaminate the whole chain of the justice delivery system, including judges and magistrates. This comes as t...Published: 13 Jun 2020 at 09:10hrs | 233 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa goes bonkers, gags Biti, Sikhala
IN A move that underscores both the lack of leadership and senselessness of the turmoil that is consuming the MDC, Nelson Chamisa has barred his once close associates from speaking to the media....Published: 12 Jun 2020 at 18:28hrs | 3446 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube tells Zanu-PF that he's no magician
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube on Wednesday told glum-faced Zanu-PF heavyweights in a closed-door politburo meeting that the economy is in terrible shape and he has no magic wand to rescue it overnight...Published: 12 Jun 2020 at 08:01hrs | 7469 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa vetoes call for GNU, talks
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has rejected the growing calls for political dialogue in the country, including the formation of a new government of national unity (GNU) to help end Zimbabwe's myriad cha...Published: 28 May 2020 at 19:21hrs | 10666 | by Staff reporter
Tshinga Dube challenges Mnangagwa
FORTHRIGHT Zanu-PF politburo member and former Cabinet minister, Tshinga Dube has thrown the cat among the pigeons within the ruling party by calling on President Emmerson Mnangagwa to form a governme...Published: 27 May 2020 at 20:23hrs | 11303 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliances loses confidence in Adv Mpofu?
MDC bigwigs in the Nelson Chamisa-led faction have expressed concern over the continued loss of MDC court cases by the opposition party's top lawyer Advocate Thabani Mpofu.A source within the ...Published: 27 May 2020 at 20:13hrs | 2982 | by Christopher Makaza
Wolves are at it again, destroying Zimbabwe's currency
Once again, officials at the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development, along with the honchos at the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) find themselves on the back foot of powerful forces that are man...Published: 24 May 2020 at 22:03hrs | 2854 | by Andrew Lampard
Mnangagwa's govt rocked by infighting
President Emmerson Mnangagwa fired controversial politician Energy Mutodi following accusations that he was part of a faction undermining the Zanu-PF leader amid allegations of fissures in his governm...Published: 24 May 2020 at 09:04hrs | 5854 | by Staff reporter
Sikhosana hero status divides Zanu-PF
FISSURES have reportedly emerged in the Zanu-PF hierarchy over the impromptu declaration of the late politburo member Absolom Sikhosana as a national hero.A group of senior party bigwigs and w...Published: 19 May 2020 at 08:14hrs | 7969 | by Staff reporter
The Daily News won't be bullied by nincompoops within the burning MDC
IT'S a sad reality that Zimbabwe's fortunes have been plunging on many fronts for the past four decades.Unfortunately, one of the things that should have fallen for good by now, but which is s...Published: 14 May 2020 at 10:49hrs | 3815 | by Daily News
Judge raps arrested bigwigs
The High Court has castigated high-profile individuals facing corruption charges for abusing bail conditions, seeking passports for travel for medical or business reasons not revealed in the original ...Published: 13 May 2020 at 07:19hrs | 744 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF's 'revenge tactics' irks MDC bigwigs
THE country was plunged into political turmoil yesterday after the MDC-Alliance suspended participation in parliament pending wider consultations on total withdrawal, as the opposition furiously accus...Published: 08 May 2020 at 17:48hrs | 2046 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa is his own detractor
THE deposal of former President Robert Mugabe in November 2017 was welcomed with song and dance. Citizenry thronged streets of Harare in joy, posing for selfies with soldiers and shaking hands with th...Published: 06 May 2020 at 08:01hrs | 1694 | by Cyprian Muketiwa Ndawana
Govt bigwigs looting COVID-19 funds
MINISTRY of Finance has raised alarm after it emerged that officials were looting funds meant for COVID-19 relief.Permanent secretary in the Ministry of Finance George Guvamatanga this week wr...Published: 02 May 2020 at 07:43hrs | 1021 | by Staff reporter
ZACC warns bigwigs over quarantine rules
Politicians and senior Government officials bullying health officials to release their friends and relatives held in Covid-19 quarantine will be arrested, the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC...Published: 27 Apr 2020 at 23:47hrs | 1065 | by Staff reporter
MDC bigwigs accused of disinformation
Reinstated MDC-T national chairman Mr Morgan Komichi has said MDC-Alliance was an electoral bloc formed among seven opposition political parties for the 2018 elections with no legal standing to recall...Published: 08 Apr 2020 at 07:48hrs | 722 | by Staff reporter
MDC MPs facing a tough choice
SITTING MDC legislators and councillors are facing a tough choice after the party group which has embraced the recent Supreme Court ruling that dethroned Nelson Chamisa from power warned yesterday tha...Published: 07 Apr 2020 at 18:39hrs | 4921 | by Staff reporter
Assassination attempt on Mwonzora?
Reinstated Secretary-General of the opposition Movement for Democratic (MDC) party, Senator Douglas Mwonzora has reportedly been involved in a minor road accident along Lomagundi road.Reports ...Published: 06 Apr 2020 at 08:47hrs | 5819 | by Staff reporter
Coronavirus to push Zimbabwe to the brink?
With Zimbabwe's health-care sector crippled by a strike by doctors and nurses, underfunding and years of general neglect, fears are growing that Covid-19 will hit the troubled country very hard....Published: 03 Apr 2020 at 08:20hrs | 269 | by Financial Mail
Mnangagwa not the change that Zimbabwe needs!
During the course of my life I heard three stories that I dismissed as mere jokes. Firstly a human resources lecturer once told us that he once came come across a white colour employee that did not kn...Published: 02 Apr 2020 at 11:17hrs | 1045 | by Ishemunyoro Mupokosera
Sakunda Holdings responds to COVID-19 fight assistance call
Sakunda Holdings has come up with a multi-million dollar initiative to resuscitate and re-equip Rock Foundation Medical Centre and St Annes Hospital in an effort to assist government in the fight agai...Published: 26 Mar 2020 at 08:06hrs | 2995 | by Simbarashe Mwandipendaa
COVID-19: Sakunda Holdings identifies two health facilities
SAKUNDA Holdings and its associates have come up with a multi-million dollar initiative to resuscitate and equip Rock Foundation Medical Centre and St Annes Hospital as a way of complementing Governme...Published: 25 Mar 2020 at 18:44hrs | 1335 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt too poor to pin down corrupt bigwigs
JUSTICE Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi has admitted it was not easy for the state to go after corrupt bigwigs he said had a tendency of deploying all their financial might to fight their crimes within natio...Published: 23 Mar 2020 at 05:26hrs | 310 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga left Harare aboard Mnangagwa's 'private plane'?
AILING Vice President Constantino Chiwenga was in fact airlifted to China on Sunday, as health woes continue to dog the powerful former military commander.It also comes after he missed two imp...Published: 17 Mar 2020 at 14:47hrs | 8311 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa, MDC dither on rolling demos
THE MDC is blowing hot and cold on its plans to stage rolling mass actions against President Emmerson Mnangagwa, his government and Zanu-PF.This comes as ructions consuming the party continue ...Published: 15 Mar 2020 at 17:47hrs | 3530 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga snubs Mnangagwa
Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga yesterday allegedly snubbed his boss President Emmerson Mnangagwa's field day held at the latter's Pricabe Farm in Sherwood, Kwekwe, as reported power struggles con...Published: 13 Mar 2020 at 06:00hrs | 6700 | by Staff reporter
Komichi to die in MDC
MDC secretary for presidential affairs Morgen Komichi has denied rumours that he has quit the opposition party, vowing to "die and be buried" by the party. Last week, an unsigned letter allege...Published: 12 Mar 2020 at 07:17hrs | 2096 | by Staff reporter
MDC fissures widen, supporters brawl
THE ructions consuming the MDC are escalating, resulting in under pressure party leader Nelson Chamisa now telling his disgruntled comrades to leave the party if they so wish, while his restless suppo...Published: 11 Mar 2020 at 19:08hrs | 3303 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa tells rivals to leave his MDC
THE ructions consuming the MDC are escalating, resulting in under pressure party leader Nelson Chamisa now telling his disgruntled comrades to leave the party if they so wish, while his restless ...Published: 11 Mar 2020 at 06:14hrs | 5877 | by Staff reporter
High-profile people in Zimbabwe to be jailed for corruption
THE government says the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) and the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) are not doing enough to bring to book high profile people accused of corruption....Published: 09 Mar 2020 at 20:13hrs | 3127 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo City Council fails to account for 600 properties
MORE than 600 non-residential properties belonging to the Bulawayo City Council are not captured in the local authority's inventory, raising fears that some bigwigs were taking advantage of the loopho...Published: 08 Mar 2020 at 08:24hrs | 213 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's G40 aligned faction goes after Mwonzora
THE mindless and factional bloodletting within the MDC was further exposed yesterday when the party's secretary-general Chalton Hwende issued a "final warning" to his predecessor Douglas Mwonzora for ...Published: 04 Mar 2020 at 17:18hrs | 1653 | by Staff reporter
Zacc letting down the masses
ZIMBABWEANS were made to believe that the scourge of sanctions imposed on the country by Western countries more than a decade ago are behind the demise of our economy, yet corruption is silently abett...Published: 03 Mar 2020 at 07:37hrs | 522 | by Innocent Mbadzi
'Zimbabwe is Hell on Earth'
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has called for ‘revolutionary' action this year. He said the constitution gave the people every right to demonstrate following the stolen 2018 presidential election and the...Published: 29 Feb 2020 at 07:33hrs | 601 | by Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
There is plenty mealie-meal, claims CIO minister
THE question and answer session in the National Assembly degenerated into a circus yesterday after State Security minister Owen Ncube briefly assumed the position of acting leader of the H...Published: 27 Feb 2020 at 06:16hrs | 783 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF moves to solve circus
Top Zanu-PF leaders from Mashonaland East province on Saturday descended on Goromonzi South to solve disharmony among members, which had resulted in the party having shaky structures.The meeti...Published: 24 Feb 2020 at 10:11hrs | 2510 | by Staff reporter
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