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Soldier raises fresh concerns about Mnangagwa safety
IN A shocking development, one of the soldiers guarding President Emmerson Mnangagwa at State House fired several rounds of live ammunition earlier this week, before he was apprehended as he was about...Published: 8 hrs ago | 2826 | by Staff reporter
Another MDC rally banned
POLICE yesterday banned yet another MDC rally that was set to be held in Chitungwiza's Zengeza East constituency - the third such opposition event to be prohibited in a fortnight - as the democratic s...Published: 8 hrs ago | 856 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police indiscriminately attack citizens
The international community and SADC need to call out on Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangangwa to accountability and all the armed forces for attacking innocent civilians who were gathered in the city centre a...Published: 21 Nov 2019 at 16:11hrs | 1254 | by Simbarashe J Jingo
SA nudges Mnangagwa, Chamisa towards dialogue
South Africa has called on President Emmerson Mnangagwa and opposition leader Nelson Chamisa to end their dispute so the country can get much-needed international help, the Daily News reports....Published: 20 Nov 2019 at 19:41hrs | 714 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa pleads with Trump, Europe
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is pleading with the West to lift their sanctions against Harare and help Zimbabwe to turn around its sickly economy, the Daily News reports.This comes after Presi...Published: 19 Nov 2019 at 20:47hrs | 3021 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa ready for Mnangagwa dialogue
Opposition leader Nelson Chamisa has disclosed that he recently met with President Emmerson Mnangagwa's "emissary", to explore the scope for formal talks between the two men, the Daily News reports. ...Published: 18 Nov 2019 at 06:40hrs | 6045 | by Staff reporter
Govt to raise passport fees
Govt to raise passport feesTHE registrar-general(RG)'s office says it will hike up its fees in a bid to marshal enough foreign currency needed to produce sufficient passports for Zimbabweans, the ...Published: 18 Nov 2019 at 06:39hrs | 3950 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa advised to cooperate with Mnangagwa
WITH President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government slowly, but surely closing the democratic space by banning most of the opposition MDC's activities, including demonstrations and rallies, analysts have s...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 20:00hrs | 7998 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa succession plan revealed
HAVING almost lost his life for wanting to succeed Zimbabwe's late former leader Robert Mugabe, President Emmerson Mnangagwa has initiated the process of handing over the reins of power to a younger s...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 18:23hrs | 12865 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube to embark on a brutal clampdown against cash barons
THE government has warned that it would embark on a brutal clampdown against cash barons and unscrupulous bank officials who are diverting money to the black market, the Daily News reports.Thi...Published: 16 Nov 2019 at 19:16hrs | 2522 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF to introduce war veterans wing
ZANU-PF is set to amend its constitution to create a war veterans wing, similar to the youth and women's leagues, the Daily News reported. Speaking to journalists after yesterday's politburo m...Published: 14 Nov 2019 at 05:46hrs | 1707 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora bullied in front of Chamisa
THINGS took a turn for the worse in the warring MDC on Tuesday when party hooligans stormed a meeting that was being chaired by its leader Nelson Chamisa, threatening to deal with former secretary-gen...Published: 14 Nov 2019 at 05:45hrs | 8347 | by Staff reporter
General SB Moyo falls sick...airlifted to South Africa
Foreign Affairs Minister Retired Lt general Sibusiso Busi Moyo has fallen sick and was airlifted to South Africa for treatment, former Daily News Editor Stanley Gama has alleged. Posting on Tw...Published: 12 Nov 2019 at 16:29hrs | 6514 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chamisa allies go for the kill
Former MDC secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora is under the cosh within the country's main opposition, with the party revealing yesterday that it would initiate disciplinary proceedings against him tha...Published: 12 Nov 2019 at 08:35hrs | 10035 | by Staff reporter
Govt, civil servants' pay dispute spills into Parliament
THE Senate's Thematic Committee on Peace and Security has invited civil servants, who are embroiled in a salary dispute with the government, to give oral evidence on their welfare.The Public S...Published: 12 Nov 2019 at 08:34hrs | 4245 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube silences Zimbabwe soldiers, police
Under-pressure Finance minister Mthuli Ncube is poised to pump billions of dollars into the coffers of the military and other security clusters when he announced his national budget next week - after ...Published: 08 Nov 2019 at 06:22hrs | 15319 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa going after billionaires and millionaires in Zimbabwe
Zanu-PF insiders also say that although President Emmerson Mnangagwa had not moved with speed to deal with corruption, the current anti-graft blitz had long been coming. They pointed to the re...Published: 06 Nov 2019 at 11:57hrs | 9308 | by Staff reporter
PG under pressure to act on Mthuli Ncube
Lawyers representing pro-democracy activist Mfundo Mlilo will engage Prosecutor –General (PG) Kumbirai Hodzi before going to court after the lapse of a seven-day ultimatum within which they demanded...Published: 06 Nov 2019 at 11:55hrs | 6743 | by Staff reporter
New graft blitz rattles Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF
Zanu-PF big guns are said to be quacking in their boots following Monday's surprise arrest of Cabinet minister and politburo member Joram Gumbo – who is also considered to be a close ally of Preside...Published: 06 Nov 2019 at 11:55hrs | 5542 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa allies in fresh push to expel Mwonzora from MDC
AS DIVISIONS continue to ravage the MDC over how to tackle President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Zanu-PF, as well as its simmering leadership tussles, former party secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora says h...Published: 04 Nov 2019 at 12:04hrs | 5420 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt tackling American ambassador Brian Nichols head-on
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government is tackling American ambassador Brian Nichols head-on over his country's robust statements during last week's anti-sanctions march - in another move that coul...Published: 31 Oct 2019 at 07:42hrs | 7892 | by Staff reporter
MDC councillor calls for Mnangagwa's arrest
MDC Marondera Central councillor Charles Ngwena and municipal police officer Paul Chikuni, who called for the arrest of President Emmerson Mnangagwa for "organising the anti-sanctions march", have bee...Published: 30 Oct 2019 at 11:41hrs | 4315 | by Staff reporter
Fresh headache for Mnangagwa, Zanu-PF
MORE war veterans are expressing their disquiet over the direction Zimbabwe is taking with disgruntled former freedom fighters also lashing out at Zanu-PF for breaking many of the promises the p...Published: 25 Oct 2019 at 14:21hrs | 7572 | by Staff reporter
MDC demo flops
THE much-hyped MDC demonstration, which the party had vowed would go ahead yesterday despite a police ban, failed to take place, exposing the lack of a coherent strategy in Zimbabwe's biggest oppositi...Published: 25 Oct 2019 at 14:21hrs | 3726 | by Staff reporter
Bad fight erupts among war vets
A nasty fight has erupted within the influential Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWA), with spokesperson Douglas Mahiya, taking serious issue with political commissar Francis ...Published: 23 Oct 2019 at 06:59hrs | 5940 | by Staff reporter
Life-size statue in honour of Tsvangirai
THE MDC will erect a life-size sculpture at the party's headquarters in Harare in honour of its founding president - the late Morgan Tsvangirai - before the end of the year, the party's secretary-gene...Published: 22 Oct 2019 at 13:00hrs | 5785 | by Staff writer
Chamisa, Mnangagwa parties row over GNU
As efforts to get President Emmerson Mnangagwa and opposition leader Nelson Chamisa to talk directly increase, it has emerged that Zanu PF and the MDC came close to setting up a second government of n...Published: 21 Oct 2019 at 07:50hrs | 9385 | by Staff reporter
MDC MPs lose allowances
PARLIAMENT has docked the allowances of opposition MDC legislators as punishment for walking out on President Emmerson Mnangagwa's State of the Nation Address (Sona) last month, the Daily News reporte...Published: 18 Oct 2019 at 18:30hrs | 5603 | by Staff reporter
MDC renews push for diaspora vote
MDC secretary for elections Jacob Mafume has said the party will use all legal channels to make sure that people in the diaspora vote in 2023.Mafume told the Daily News that his party will app...Published: 18 Oct 2019 at 05:31hrs | 199 | by Staff reporter
The curious case of Peter Lobengula, the Prince of Salford
On a Wednesday morning in the spring on 1899 the Union Ocean liner called Goth sailing from Cape Town South Africa, docked in Southampton United Kingdom carrying the entire cast of a show called â€...Published: 17 Oct 2019 at 19:50hrs | 61 | by Joseph Qobo Mayisa
Nurses to report for duty once a week
Nurses, who recently declared incapacitation, have resolved to report for duty once a week, a situation that will worsen further service delivery at public hospitals that were also deserted by doctors...Published: 17 Oct 2019 at 09:09hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter
Dialogue news lifts Zimbabwe hopes
Daily NewsMany Zimbabweans have welcomed the tentative moves to the end of the months of political brawling in the country between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and opposition leader Nelson Cha...Published: 17 Oct 2019 at 09:04hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
MDC bigwigs visit Zanu-PF HQ to push for 'bilateral talks'
Zanu-PF and MDC bigwigs have held a meeting to initiate dialogue between the two parties - raising hopes that the much needed direct talks between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and opposition leader Ne...Published: 16 Oct 2019 at 16:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF suspends Harare, Bulawayo restructuring
Daily NewsZanu-PF has suspended its restructuring of Harare and Bulawayo provinces despite completing the setting up of District Coordinating Committees (DCCs) in the capital city. Las...Published: 16 Oct 2019 at 16:19hrs | 23 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa warned of uprising
THE church has warned President Emmerson Mnangagwa to end the country's myriad crises or risk facing a revolt from an increasingly restless populace, the Daily News reported. Local churches wh...Published: 12 Oct 2019 at 19:12hrs | 2123 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa disbands MDC wards
Nelson Chamisa, the MDC leader, has disbanded the party's ward structures to merge them with branches as resolved at the opposition party's congress in May. The party's organising secretary, A...Published: 10 Oct 2019 at 18:22hrs | 3216 | by Staff reporter
'CIOs takeover all Zimbabwe newspapers'
Professor Jonathan Moyo has alleged that the members of the dreaded Central Intelligence Organisation have infiltrated into all the newsrooms of media houses in the country except that of the South Af...Published: 10 Oct 2019 at 08:25hrs | 12619 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa lashes at his advisors
A recent report in the Daily News on the deliberations of and the goings-on within the Presidential Advisory Committee (PAC) caused Emmerson Mnangagwa to blow the gasket - in a development which left ...Published: 10 Oct 2019 at 07:33hrs | 5086 | by Staff reporter
Grace may have tampered with Mugabe's body ahead of his burial?
In stranger than fiction new revelations, former first lady Grace Mugabe apparently performed bizarre rituals on the remains of her late husband, Robert Mugabe - and also barred close family members a...Published: 09 Oct 2019 at 20:33hrs | 8198 | by Staff reporter
Daily News lampoons Jonathan Moyo
The Daily News has lampooned the self-exiled former Cabinet minister, Jonathan Moyo, for suggesting that its sister newspaper, The Financial Gazette, is owned by the country's notorious Central Intell...Published: 09 Oct 2019 at 20:23hrs | 7999 | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe took part in bizarre rituals
In stranger than fiction new revelations, former first lady Grace Mugabe apparently performed bizarre rituals on the remains of her late husband, Robert Mugabe - and also barred close family members a...Published: 09 Oct 2019 at 07:26hrs | 14562 | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe pleads for Mujuru forgiveness
Following the recent death of her long-ruling husband, Robert Mugabe, a vulnerable and once untouchable Grace is apparently reaching out to some of her erstwhile political rivals. Among t...Published: 08 Oct 2019 at 06:57hrs | 15741 | by Staff reporter
Ziyambi headlines human rights forum
Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi will be the guest speaker at a high-powered human rights discussion forum to be held in Harare on October 10 at Harry Margolis Hall in Milton Park. The event o...Published: 03 Oct 2019 at 07:58hrs | 299 | by Staff reporter
Joshua Nkomo could be exhumed from Heroes Acre
The family of liberation icon Joshua Nkomo says it is not ruling out exhuming his body from the National Heroes Acre in Harare for reburial at his homestead in Kezi, Matabeleland South.Nkomo's...Published: 02 Oct 2019 at 20:59hrs | 3302 | by ZimLive
Zupco admits failing to meet Bulawayo demand
The Zimbabwe united Passenger Company (Zupco) has admitted that it is failing to meet demand in the second largest city, as transport woes continue to hit long-suffering Zimbabweans hard, Daily News r...Published: 02 Oct 2019 at 07:44hrs | 951 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC ordered to compensate employee
THE Nelson Chamisa led Movement for Democratic Change has been ordered to pay $10 000 in damages and interest to an employee they fired unlawfully.According to the Daily News, Bramston Gwena h...Published: 26 Sep 2019 at 07:06hrs | 191 | by Staff reporter
Nyarota faces imprisonment over US$60k debt
VETERAN journalist and founding editor of the privately owned Daily News, Geoffrey Nyarota faces imprisonment for failing to settle a debt he owes the newspaper's publishers Associated Newspapers of Z...Published: 24 Sep 2019 at 07:46hrs | 502 | by newzimbabwe
Chiwenga to kick out Mnangagwa?
Recuperating Vice President, Rtd General Constantino Chiwenga, is reportedly going to use the country's dreaded Joint Operations Command (JOC), to forcefully kick out President Emmerson Mnangagwa from...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 00:16hrs | 26876 | by Mary-Kate Kahari/Malvin Motsi
Mangudya summoned over Command Agric
Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor John Mangudya has been summoned to appear before the Parliament's Accounts Committee (Pac) to answer allegations that US$3 billion vanished under the controvers...Published: 16 Sep 2019 at 06:07hrs | 2668 | by Staff reporter
Did Mugabe propose to marry Barack Obama?
Following the death of Robert Mugabe, who died on September 6 at age 95, various media have carried articles on some of his most famous quotes.Among the quotes is a claim that he once proposed...Published: 15 Sep 2019 at 06:57hrs | 1478 | by Staff reporter
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