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38 years of Zanu PF tyranny has sucked all marrow out of life - We are living dead
"Insanity," said the great Physicist Albert Einstein "in doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result" Talk of insanity and one immediately thinks of the mental patien...Published: 22 hrs ago | 1860 | by Wilbert Mukori
'Zanu-PF committed to human rights'
JUSTICE minister Ziyambi Ziyambi, who served as President Emmerson Mnangagwa's chief elections agent in the July 30 poll, last week met with NewsDay reporter Blessed Mhlanga for an interview where he ...Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 07:15hrs | 479 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa' Alliance welcomes devolution amendments
NELSON Chamisa's opposition MDC Alliance party yesterday warmed up to government plans to amend the Constitution to allow for easier implementation of devolution.The party's shadow local gover...Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 07:06hrs | 699 | by Staff reporter
'No one wants Zimbabwe hangman's job'
Despite government's frantic efforts to recruit a hangman, Zimbabweans have frowned upon the job offer even though unemployment is above 90 percent.In this Question & Answer with the Daily...Published: 16 Sep 2018 at 13:29hrs | 2095 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt moves to amend Constitution
The Ninth Parliament of Zimbabwe officially opens on Tuesday with significant changes to Chapter 14 of the Constitution set to be introduced.The amendments are designed to streamline the struc...Published: 16 Sep 2018 at 07:14hrs | 5315 | by Staff Reporter
Chamisa in U-turn
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has cancelled celebrations to mark the party's 19th anniversary due to the cholera outbreak which is spiralling out of control, the Daily News can report.If anything,...Published: 15 Sep 2018 at 21:50hrs | 10250 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga grounded
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa last week played the ball firmly into Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga's court after politically emasculating him and sidelining his key lieutenants in his cabinet appo...Published: 14 Sep 2018 at 16:34hrs | 19125 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa copies the Kenyan playbook
When Nelson Chamisa this week announced his intention to inaugurate himself as "People's President" of Zimbabwe, he was following in the footsteps of other African opposition leaders — specifically ...Published: 13 Sep 2018 at 18:50hrs | 5110 | by Simon Allison I M&G
Mnangagwa's ministers pledge drastic changes
Ministers that form part of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Cabinet yesterday pledged to hit the ground running and transform the way of doing business in their respective portfolios after being sworn-...Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 14:58hrs | 1615 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Chief Justice Malaba humiliated in Parliament
Chief Justice Luke Malaba had a torrid time in Parliament yesterday after the opposition legislators tried to stop him from swearing-in speaker of the National Assembly Jacob Mudenda and his deputy Ts...Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 14:58hrs | 6403 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa thinks he could force Mnangagwa to accept some of his demands
Government will not hesitate to arrest MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa if he proceeds to swear himself in as president.This follows a declaration by Chamisa over the weekend that he would c...Published: 11 Sep 2018 at 14:41hrs | 6324 | by Staff reporter
Industry ready to work with new Cabinet
INDUSTRY executives have expressed readiness to work with the new Cabinet to transform the economy and applauded President Emmerson Mnangagwa for appointing competent personnel. The economy is...Published: 11 Sep 2018 at 07:01hrs | 239 | by Staff reporter
New ministers to make tough decisions
Newly appointed Cabinet ministers, who will be sworn in tomorrow, believe President Emmerson Mnangagwa's vision of creating a middle-income economy by 2030 is attainable, and tough decisions will have...Published: 09 Sep 2018 at 08:09hrs | 344 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa appoints technocrats in new Cabinet
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday pulled a shocker when he dropped several Zanu PF party bigwigs, some who had served as Cabinet ministers for several years, and appointed three technocrats - for...Published: 08 Sep 2018 at 08:28hrs | 1514 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's new Cabinet has potential to turn around the economy
Our people rarely agree politically but they appear to have over the figures that President Mnangagwa appointed into his Cabinet yesterday. He brought in new faces and a few surprises, youths, added m...Published: 08 Sep 2018 at 08:21hrs | 536 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa in Cabinet shocker
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday pulled a shocker when he dropped several Zanu PF party bigwigs, some who had served as Cabinet ministers for several years, and appointed three technocrats - for...Published: 08 Sep 2018 at 07:14hrs | 2776 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa appoints Prof Mthuli Ncube as Finance minister
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has appointed the Professor Businessman Mthuli Ncube as Finance Minister replacing the long serving minister Patrick Chinamasa.Ncube owned the now defunct Barbican...Published: 07 Sep 2018 at 15:24hrs | 6817 | by Stephen Jakes
BREAKING: Mnangagwa's New cabinet announced
The Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet Dr Misheck Sibanda, flanked by President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Vice President Dr Constantino Chiwenga, has announced the new cabinet at State Ho...Published: 07 Sep 2018 at 14:31hrs | 17010 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance attacks Mudenda over electoral reform comments
THE MDC Alliance yesterday blasted Speaker of the National Assembly Jacob Mudenda for claiming that the opposition legislators in the last Parliament never moved any motion for electoral laws....Published: 07 Sep 2018 at 07:14hrs | 1612 | by Staff reporter
ED rigged elections, per se, illegitimate and 'Chamisa holds the key' argue Biti - what a narcissist
Zimbabwe is in serious trouble already with unemployment at the dizzying heights of 90%, basic services such as clean running water and health all but collapsed and 75% of our people living on US$1.00...Published: 06 Sep 2018 at 16:37hrs | 2519 | by Nomusa Garikai
Zimbabwe's ninth Parly bound to fail, says Biti
Members of the Ninth Parliament were sworn in yesterday with former Finance minister Tendai Biti painting a gloomy picture of its prospects of success owing to what he termed as a 'crisis of legitimac...Published: 06 Sep 2018 at 08:20hrs | 3321 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa holds keys to economy, says Biti
FORMER Finance minister and opposition MDC Alliance co-principal, Tendai Biti yesterday called on President Emmerson Mnangagwa to swallow his pride and engage his rival Nelson Chamisa for dialogue to ...Published: 06 Sep 2018 at 07:02hrs | 3146 | by Staff reporter
Family angered as Zanu-PF snubs war hero
Family members of the late Kiliyon Sonke Babuyile Bhebhe, 90, are not happy that Zanu-PF has shot down proposals that he be declared a national hero.Bhebhe died in Chinhoyi last Tuesday....Published: 04 Sep 2018 at 07:19hrs | 2532 | by Staff reporter
Confusion rocks Air Zimbabwe debt plan
GRANT Thornton is in the dark over its alleged "appointment" as the caretaker administrator of troubled national airline Air Zimbabwe (AirZim) after the sacking of the board early this month, escalati...Published: 01 Sep 2018 at 13:44hrs | 687 | by Staff reporter
How govt sabotaged Chamisa court case
THE government employed a cocktail of crippling measures which severely weakened MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa's Constitutional Court (ConCourt) case in which he is challenging President-elect Em...Published: 01 Sep 2018 at 13:42hrs | 2314 | by Staff reporter
MDC-Alliance rejects captured Constitutional Court ruling
The MDC notes with grave concern and rejects today's evidently captured decision of the Constitutional Court to endorse a patently sham election and to entrench an illegitimate regime that used brazen...Published: 24 Aug 2018 at 19:59hrs | 9540 | by MDC Communications
Con-Court bench members' profiles
Chief Justice Luke MalabaLuke Malaba was born in 1951.He received his law degree from the University of Warwick in 1974, and another law degree from the University of Zimbabwe in 1982....Published: 23 Aug 2018 at 13:07hrs | 5488 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa foreign lawyers fail to practise in ZImbabwe
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa's South African lawyers were yesterday left disappointed after their last-minute attempt to represent their client in a matter in he is challenging the victory of Pr...Published: 23 Aug 2018 at 06:51hrs | 5718 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's SA lawyers denied entry into the Constitutional Court
Chamisa's local lawyers have just filed an urgent application at the High Court challenging the decision by the justice ministry to bar top lawyers from South Africa, including Dali Mpofu, from p...Published: 22 Aug 2018 at 09:02hrs | 9372 | by Staff reporter
Profiles of Zimbabwe's Constitutional Court judges
Nine Constitutional Court (ConCourt) judges will today preside over a matter which will decide on who will lead Zimbabwe for the next five years. Chief Justice Luke Malaba will lead a cast of eight ju...Published: 22 Aug 2018 at 06:26hrs | 8017 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's fate lies with 9 judges
ZIMBABWE'S estimated 14 million citizens are today holding their collective breaths as the Constitutional Court bench made up of nine men and women sit to make a determination in one of the greatest p...Published: 22 Aug 2018 at 06:24hrs | 2670 | by Staff reporter
A deep dive into the world of the Constitutional Court
NO one can deny that this election season has been a rollercoaster and people are confused, anxious and hopeful as they face an unpredictable outcome from the Constitutional Court (ConCourt) in the pe...Published: 22 Aug 2018 at 06:13hrs | 309 | by Thabani Mnyama
Chamisa's expart lawyers refused to submit their CVs
The high-profile South African lawyers who were meant to present the challenge to the disputed July 30 Zimbabwe elections to the nine-member Harare Constitutional Court on Wednesday will not be able t...Published: 21 Aug 2018 at 10:43hrs | 11120 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's foreign lawyers cornered
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa's bid to engage five foreign lawyers in his presidential election challenge could hit a brick-wall, as they are yet to be cleared to pract...Published: 21 Aug 2018 at 06:56hrs | 5927 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa lied over shootings: EU
Mnangagwa lied over shootings: EURELATIONS between President-elect Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration and the European Union (EU) hit a new low yesterday, with the influential bloc's point person...Published: 21 Aug 2018 at 06:41hrs | 3170 | by Staff reporter
'State not paying for Mnangagwa anti-graft unit'
GOVERNMENT is not paying the lawyers and prosecutors who form President Emmerson Mnangagwa's controversial crack anti-corruption unit, Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi said at the weekend.Ziya...Published: 21 Aug 2018 at 06:39hrs | 338 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's South Africa lawyers battle for Zimbabwe clearance
PAPERS for the four South Africa-based lawyers intending to represent MDC Alliance leader Mr Nelson Chamisa are not in order and the legal practitioners will not make it for tomorrow's presidential el...Published: 21 Aug 2018 at 06:38hrs | 2656 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's expat lawyer denied certificate of exemption
MDC Alliance leader, Nelson Chamisa's South African lawyer Jeremy Gauntlett has been denied a certificate of exemption by the Zimbabwean authorities.Minister of Justice, Legal and Parliamentar...Published: 20 Aug 2018 at 18:45hrs | 11431 | by Staff reporter
'Chamisa's expat lawyers applied for admission to practice in Zimbabwe'
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa's international attorneys contesting President-elect Emmerson Mnangagwa's victory in the July 30 harmonised elections have applied for authority to work in the count...Published: 20 Aug 2018 at 12:50hrs | 2812 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa taunts Mnangagwa
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday ordered his political nemesis President-elect Emmerson Mnangagwa to do the "most gracious and revolutionary thing" by conceding defeat and start...Published: 20 Aug 2018 at 06:11hrs | 7040 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa's Biti tweet misconstrued'
FEARS abound that President-elect Emmerson Mnangagwa's government will influence the Constitutional Court's decision in the landmark case in which opposition leader Nelson Chamisa wants the results of...Published: 20 Aug 2018 at 06:02hrs | 1817 | by Staff reporter
Dali Mpofu in Zimbabwe work permit poser
Advocates Dali Mpofu and Tembeka Ngcukaitobi from South Africa - who are reportedly set to lead a legal team contesting President Mnangagwa's victory in the July 30 harmonised elections - cannot appea...Published: 18 Aug 2018 at 08:15hrs | 6685 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's poll agent arrested
MDC Alliance leader, Nelson Chamisa's co-chief election agent, Morgen Komichi, has been arrested on charges of violating the country's electoral laws after he allegedly interrupted the 2018 harmonised...Published: 18 Aug 2018 at 08:03hrs | 927 | by Staff reporter
Challenges for Chamisa's SA lawyers
Advocates Dali Mpofu and Tembeka Ngcukaitobi from South Africa - who are reportedly set to lead a legal team contesting President Mnangagwa's victory in the July 30 harmonised elections - cannot appea...Published: 18 Aug 2018 at 07:59hrs | 1999 | by Staff reporter
Air Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe Airways chaos continues
THE policy flip-flop around Air Zimbabwe (AirZim)'s proposed merger with its equally controversial peer Zimbabwe Airways (ZimAirways) has once again exposed the ineptitude of those superintending this...Published: 16 Aug 2018 at 14:04hrs | 2103 | by Staff reporter
Mnangwagwa is still the boss?
President Emmerson Mnangagwa remains Head of State and Government and Commander-in-Chief of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces, with full executive authority as granted by the Constitution, despite one oppos...Published: 12 Aug 2018 at 09:40hrs | 311 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's scarf feature in MDC election results court challenge
Zimbabwe's main opposition party on Friday filed a legal challenge to the results of the country's first election without Robert Mugabe on the ballot, alleging "gross mathematical errors" and calling ...Published: 11 Aug 2018 at 10:42hrs | 13776 | by AFP
New parliament to focus on devolution
THE promulgation of a law to complete the implementation of devolution power is expected to take centre stage when Parliament resumes sitting, the Minister of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs,...Published: 11 Aug 2018 at 09:27hrs | 557 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa's inauguration delayed
Sunday's inauguration of Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been halted after a legal challenge by the opposition against the election result.MDC leader Nelson Chamisa says he has evide...Published: 10 Aug 2018 at 19:19hrs | 1853 | by BBC
Dali Mpofu to lead legal team challenging Mnangagwa election victory
South Africa's Advocate Dali Mpofu is reportedly set to lead a legal team to challenge Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his Zanu-PF party's victory in the just ended elections – on behalf...Published: 10 Aug 2018 at 10:20hrs | 12222 | by Staff reporter
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