HARARE – Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has said he will romp to victory in the forthcoming polls and return the isolated country to the community of nations. Tsvangirai is squaring off with veteran ruler President Robert Mugabe, 89, in the elections the MDC president described as “watershed.” “We are the new brooms, we sweep the…
HARARE – Tomorrow’s Daily News will carry an exclusive interview with the Prime Minister and MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai. Conducted, by one of the country’s top journalists, the Daily News political editor, Gift Phiri, the reverting interview is the first of its kind in Zimbabwe as it was conducted live on stage at the Jubilee…
HARARE – Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai says he does not hold a personal grudge against security service chiefs but wants them to respect civilian authority. Addressing his party members at an MDC policy conference at the Jubilee Christian Centre in Milton Park in Harare yesterday, Tsvangirai said he had no personal issues with the service…
HARARE – The African Development Bank (AfDB)’s Zimbabwe Multi-Donor Trust Fund (ZMDTF) has begun implementing the first phase of its $9 million Emergency Power Infrastructure Rehabilitation Project (EPIRP) targeted at improving electricity supply. The initial phase is one of three to be implemented under the fund’s overall $35 million project. Since 2007, Zimbabwe has battled…
HARARE – Rights commissioners have demanded remuneration packages and perks similar to those enjoyed by judges and government ministers. Giving oral evidence yesterday before the parliamentary thematic committee on Human Rights chaired by senator Misheck Marava, Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC) chairperson Jacob Mudenda said the rights body was financially crippled and is not getting…
HARARE – Stanbic Bank Zimbabwe (Stanbic), a unit of South African Standard Bank, says it has disbursed $800 million since 2012 to various sectors of the economy, despite indigenisation threats. The bank is one of the four foreign-owned financial institutions under pressure to comply with the country’s empowerment policy — compelling non-Zimbabwean firms to cede…
HARARE – Chitungwiza municipal workers have given their employer a 14-day ultimatum to pay their January and February salaries or face industrial action. The workers in January resolved to forego their allowances to ensure regular payment of their salaries but are still singing the blues after going seven months without pay. They told the Daily…
HARARE – A billboard of a smiling Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai reminds Milton Park residents his MDC party will hold an important meeting down the road today to shape the future of Zimbabwe. But behind the giant poster, people see little to smile about: potholed, dirty roads and rampant unemployment speak volumes about the party’s…
HARARE – Members of Parliament yesterday agreed that a new mobile voter registration exercise should be carried out countrywide to ensure that every citizen is allowed to register to vote. Legislators across the political divide supported the motion moved by Settlement Chikwinya MDC MP for Mbizo, who asked government to restart the mobile voter registration…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s electoral body is sweating over potential trouble ahead of the upcoming general election. Rita Makarau, Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) chairperson, is now asking church leaders to pray hard as a watershed general election beckons. After helplessly watching a chaotic mobile voter registration exercise characterised by chaos, Zec — the body in charge…
