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'Chamisa, Mnangagwa failing Zimbabwe awfully'
Former Zanu-PF youth leader Godfrey Tsenengamu has reiterated that President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Nelson Chamisa are failing Zimbabweans badly by not ending their feud and putting the nation's...Published: 13 hrs ago | 2757 | by Staff reporter
Biti dismiss sanctions document
THE United Kingdom (UK) has dissociated itself from a letter allegedly written by their former Defence minister Geoffrey William Hoon, which fingers MDC vice president Tendai Biti and treasurer David ...Published: 13 hrs ago | 2074 | by Staff reporter
'Joshua Nkomo turning in his grave'
Sibangilizwe, the outspoke son of the revered late veteran nationalist and Vice President Joshua Nkomo, has said the way President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has pushed the country's economy down...Published: 13 hrs ago | 1269 | by Staff reporter
Khupe barred from holding MDC-T Congress
THE government has barred interim MDC leader Thokozani Khupe from holding the party's planned extra-ordinary congress slated for July 31 - until the coronavirus pandemic is under control in the countr...Published: 04 Jul 2020 at 17:24hrs | 7707 | by Staff reporter
Khupe, Chamisa lock horns over chief whips
MDC-T leader Thokozani Khupe and his MDC Alliance rival Nelson Chamisa have opened a new battlefront in their war for the control of the opposition party following their appointment of different set o...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 18:17hrs | 5186 | by Staff reporter
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 | 4393 | by Staff reporter
Khupe's faction wreaks carnage
AS THE MDC's mindless wars worsen, interim party leader Thokozani Khupe threw the kitchen sink at her rival Nelson Chamisa yesterday - recalling nine senators from Parliament and barring more than 1 0...Published: 02 Jul 2020 at 18:33hrs | 5267 | by Staff reporter
Nurses demand US$ to immunise babies
CHITUNGWIZA council nurses have been accused of demanding payment from mothers for immunisation of their infants.According to parents who spoke to the Daily News yesterday, they were being ask...Published: 02 Jul 2020 at 18:30hrs | 594 | by Staff reporter
Govt yet to decide on school calendar
THE government is yet to decide on the school calendar despite that primary and secondary schools are reopening this month.This comes as schools were forced to close early in March as the gove...Published: 02 Jul 2020 at 18:30hrs | 982 | 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 | 4184 | 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 | 3475 | by Staff reporter
Cain Mathema summoned over schools reopening
PARLIAMENT has summoned the minister of Primary and Secondary Education, Cain Mathema, junior MPs and the deaf community to share their views on the reopening of schools amid the coronavirus (Covid-19...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 18:48hrs | 2432 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe switches to substitute ARV drugs
THE government says it has a substitute for the second line drugs for anti-retroviral treatment (ART) which is currently in short supply.In an interview with the Daily News yesterday, deputy m...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 18:47hrs | 2262 | by Staff reporter
Civil servants, govt meet over salaries
Government is set to meet with civil servants today over salaries and perks under the National Joint Negotiating Council. The NJNC has since written to the Apex Council chairperson Cecilia Ale...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 07:59hrs | 5734 | by Staff reporter
Khupe in congress U-Turn
INTERIM MDC president Thokozani Khupe has made a dramatic extra-ordinary congress U-turn after she rolled back the new dates she had set for the Indaba to the original July 31 date.This comes ...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 18:03hrs | 6810 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa told to go back to the drawing board
BATTERED and bruised MDC-Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa, should go back to the drawing board and come up with new strategies to fight for his political life in the wake of the political and legal loss...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 17:49hrs | 2128 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe opposition facing extinction?
IT WAS a journey of 40 years, one which the children of Israel endured until they reached Canaan, but unlike the Israelites, who turned a corner after four decades, the opposition in Zimbabwe has rema...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 17:48hrs | 565 | by Tendai Kamhungira
Chamisa has been hijacked, says Mashakada
Founding MDC member and Economic Planning former minister Tapiwa Mashakada recently left the MDC-Alliance led by Nelson Chamisa claiming the party had stopped being a workers' movement and that it had...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 17:44hrs | 8907 | by Staff reporter
'Mobile money suspension will bury Zimbabwean economy'
THERE is a debilitating mixture of chaos, confusion and panic among both consumers and businesses across the country, after the government made a surprise announcement late on Friday evening that it w...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 17:41hrs | 1943 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's faction receives another morale-sapping blow
IT DOES not rain but pours for Nelson Chamisa's MDC faction, with the beset group receiving another morale-sapping blow yesterday after it lost the battle for the warring party's hugely symbolic natio...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 17:02hrs | 9162 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe poverty datum line more than doubles
THE poverty datum line has jumped by more than 100 percent from $3 398 in May to $8 484 in June, the country's statistical agency — the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (ZimStat) - revealed yeste...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 17:00hrs | 569 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt probing army brutality
AUTHORITIES are probing cases of alleged army brutality in Harare and at the country's borders, after soldiers are said to have gone on a rampage on Wednesday night - assaulting people and looting the...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 17:00hrs | 984 | 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
Mnangagwa challenged to fire Obadiah Moyo
A CIVIC society organisation has challenged President Emmerson Mnangagwa to relieve embattled Health minister Obadiah Moyo of his duties after he was charged with corruption. This comes after ...Published: 25 Jun 2020 at 16:20hrs | 2520 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa warns his corrupt aides
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday warned key figures in his government involved in corruption that they would be dealt with mercilessly, the Daily News reports.This comes as several senio...Published: 25 Jun 2020 at 16:17hrs | 1545 | by Staff reporter
Biggie Zuze dies
DYNAMOS and the entire football community was plunged into mourning following the death of the club's assistant coach Biggie Zuze in Harare Thursday afternoon. Zuze passed away at a private me...Published: 25 Jun 2020 at 16:17hrs | 2116 | by Staff reporter
Minister Raj Modi's shop demands foreign currency...rejects Zimdollar and bond notes
The Bulawayo based Wholesale Centre Liquor Hub owned Deputy Minister of Industry and Commerce Rajeshkumar Indukant Modi is reportedly refusing to accept bond notes and local currency as a medium...Published: 25 Jun 2020 at 15:25hrs | 2373 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Calls for civil society to be audited
ZANU PF-aligned Zimbabwe Citizens Forum (the Forum) has called for the auditing of civil society organisations (CSOs) operating in Zimbabwe to establish where they are getting their funding among othe...Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 20:32hrs | 1007 | by Staff reporter
New US$ pricing sparks confusion
THERE was massive confusion yesterday as retail shops were meant to start charging their goods in both American dollars and the local currency, the Daily News reports.Instead of making life ea...Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 17:22hrs | 4042 | 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
Khupe blames coronavirus, and lockdown
INTERIM MDC president Thokozani Khupe, has postponed the party's court-directed extra-ordinary congress which was slated for next month - where a substantive new party boss was to be chosen.Kh...Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 14:58hrs | 1995 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's solders fear crippling mass protests
THE security sector is on high alert, amid fears among authorities of crippling mass protests by the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) - over the country's deteriorating economic situation....Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 14:55hrs | 2816 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa moves in to deal with his successor'
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's ZANU PF party is pushing for the amendment of the constitution to deal with the succession plan that is provided by the constitution, Constitutional law expert Professor...Published: 22 Jun 2020 at 12:16hrs | 17379 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Renewed push to reunite MDC
MDC-T organising secretary Abednico Bhebhe has called for an end to the mindless bloodletting engulfing the party saying it was time for the MDC leaders to bury the hatchet in the interest of the part...Published: 22 Jun 2020 at 08:25hrs | 5759 | 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
Mashakada fears for his life
The MDC Alliance has been accused of employing the services of cyber mercenaries to target fellow party members and silence them from speaking out on the chaos that has become of the party.Hat...Published: 21 Jun 2020 at 17:00hrs | 2417 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa is seeking to consolidate power through amendment'
PARLIAMENT last week embarked on nation-wide public hearings into Constitution Amendment (No 2) Bill to gather views of the people on the proposal to tinker with a number of provisions in the supreme ...Published: 21 Jun 2020 at 16:59hrs | 1541 | by Staff reporter
Harare repossess sports clubs
THE Harare City Council has resolved to terminate all leases with their sports clubs, council principal communications officer Innocent Ruwende has said.In an interview with the Daily News, Ru...Published: 20 Jun 2020 at 08:45hrs | 1763 | 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
Chamisa insists that ball is in Mnangagwa's court
AS ZIMBABWE'S political and economic crises continue to deepen, Nelson Chamisa says the ball is in President Emmerson Mnangagwa's court to initiate sincere and inclusive national dialogue to help reso...Published: 18 Jun 2020 at 17:47hrs | 5093 | by Staff reporter
Prices go haywire
IN A development which signals the effective and official re-dollarisation of the local economy, under-fire Finance minister Mthuli Ncube, pictured, yesterday awarded restive government workers and pe...Published: 18 Jun 2020 at 17:45hrs | 7435 | 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
Comedians poke fun at Mnangagwa's speeches
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has inspired humourists in the country who are cashing in on his stunts when he addresses the public, the Daily News reports. This comes after Doc Vikela lau...Published: 17 Jun 2020 at 07:18hrs | 9898 | by Staff reporter
Tambaoga aplogises for Zanu-PF links
CONTROVERSIAL mbira musician Tambaoga, pictured, of the Rambai Makashinga fame is asking for forgiveness from the people of Zimbabwe for supporting Zanu-PF "to the extremes" during former president Ro...Published: 17 Jun 2020 at 07:18hrs | 4607 | 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 | 15649 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere says he cannot stage coup
EXILED former Local Government minister Saviour Kasukuwere has said he is a firm believer in constitutionalism and cannot stage a coup as he was a victim of the same in November 2017, the Daily News r...Published: 16 Jun 2020 at 09:54hrs | 2067 | by Staff reporter
Fresh disorder batters Harare
HARARE was once again hit by chaotic scenes yesterday, after security forces stopped tens of thousands of people from entering the central business district (CBD) - as the country held its day of nati...Published: 16 Jun 2020 at 09:48hrs | 2906 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa appeals against councillors' recall
UNDER-SIEGE MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has appealed to Local Government minister July Moyo to thwart efforts by acting MDC-T president Thokozani Khupe to recall his party's councillors, the Da...Published: 15 Jun 2020 at 15:12hrs | 7739 | by Staff reporter
'Boxed Chamisa must think outside the box'
WITH MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa fighting on two fronts - an internal battle for the control of the party with Thokozani Khupe and the closure of democratic space by President Emmerson Mnangagw...Published: 14 Jun 2020 at 19:02hrs | 2920 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa pulled the plug on shady Covid-19 deals, claims Charamba
WITH the advent of the global pandemic, coronavirus (Covid-19), many civil society organisations have called for transparency in the use of various donations that the government has been receiving....Published: 14 Jun 2020 at 19:01hrs | 1972 | by Staff reporter
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