HARARE – Our News Editor Gift Phiri (GP) talks to MDC leader and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai (MT). Below are excerpts of the interview. GP: A massive crowd turned out on Monday to rally behind you at your final star rally in Harare. What do you read into this? MT: You know, ever since the…
HARARE – The countdown has ended for the hour has arrived for the 6.4 million registered voters to give their verdict as to who the next President of the Republic of Zimbabwe will be. It will take up to five days for the people of Zimbabwe and, indeed, the world to know the identity of…
HARARE – Morgen Komichi, chief elections officer in Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC, was Tuesday denied bail and further remanded in custody to August 14. Komichi’s bail application was thrown out by magistrate Anita Tshuma stating that since investigations were still underway, Komichi would interfere with witnesses. Tshuma said there was a likelihood that Komichi…
HARARE – Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC says President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF aided by the dreaded Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) and Chinese allies has worked up a plan to cripple Internet services as the country votes today. MDC spokesperson Douglas Mwonzora, told a press briefing yesterday that Zimbabwe’s feared spy service is behind the…
HARARE – Baba Jukwa and his Vapanduki team have asked Zimbabweans to vote for Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai in today’s critical general poll. With 302 403 followers, the faceless Facebook character claimed yesterday that he held a meeting with his “team” and settled on dumping his “party leader” President Robert Mugabe to stop “a subtle…
HARARE – Fellow Zimbabweans, on this day we have a historic opportunity to define and decide our destiny; to be the authors of our future. At least once in a generation, a nation goes through a single defining moment. The 1980 generation faced an election they were called upon to make a choice between minority…
HARARE – If the scenes and mood in Harare yesterday were anything to go by, President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF is in for a “shock defeat” in Wednesday’s key harmonised elections. While the octogenarian leader’s spin-doctors will argue that “Harare is not Zimbabwe”, the verve and build-up to Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s crossover rally aptly…
HOMS – The Syrian regime says it has taken over a rebel stronghold in Homs, inflicting a strategic and psychological blow to rebels in the country’s two-year-long crisis. Government forces took control of the Khalidiya neighborhood of Homs, Syrian state-run TV reported Monday. The area had been under rebel control for about a year. Controlling…
CAIRO – The European Union’s top diplomat, Catherine Ashton, met with deposed Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi for two hours Monday — the first high-level official aside from the Egyptian military to meet with Morsi since the military whisked him away to an undisclosed location last month. Ashton has sharply criticized Morsy’s forcible removal from power…
HARARE – Musician-cum-comedian Freddy “Kapfupi” Manjalima has been dragged to the Labour Court by two members of his backing band, Orchestra Ndozvo, over unpaid weekly wages. A member of Orchestra Ndozvo who refused to be identified told the Daily News that long-serving lead guitarist Luke Ephraim and bassist Taurai Pinda resorted to legal action in…
