EDITOR — New Zimbabwe national football team coach Ian Gorowa has done well to salvage the battered image of our national team by leading them to qualification for next year’s Chan in South Africa. Zimbabwe has equally talented players compared to African power houses like Nigeria, Ghana and Ivory Coast. Even though Klaus-Dieter Pagels did…
EDITOR — May I thank the outgoing mayor of Harare, Muchadeyi Masunda, for a job well done under very difficult circumstances. And may I also congratulate the MDC for choosing Obert Gutu, a very promising talent as his successor? Congratulations are due to the incoming mayor for the trust his party has in him. It…
LONDON – British Prime Minister David Cameron opened an emergency session of the House of Commons on Thursday by saying the debate on Syria is about “how to respond to one of most abhorrent uses of chemical weapons in a century” — not about regime change or invasion. “Put simply, is it in Britain’s national…
CAIRO – Leading Muslim Brotherhood figure Mohammed al-Beltagi has been arrested, according to Egyptian state media. Mr Beltagi, secretary-general of the Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), is accused of inciting violence, Channel One TV said. Prosecutors had ordered his arrest on 10 July. It comes as Egypt’s military moves against Brotherhood leaders following the…
HARARE – Most Zimbabwean firms are highly geared and lack creditworthiness, leading to their failure to access credit lines, the African Development Bank (AfDB) says. The regional lender said while there are bank facilities created to bail out the distressed companies, most of them “generally fail the due diligence test”. It said the funds are…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe has a punishing schedule that will see him bury a comrade today, open the Harare Agricultural Show tomorrow and inter another ex-guerrilla war hero on Saturday. The 89-year-old Zanu PF leader, who has not taken any rest since sweeping to a disputed victory in the July 31 harmonised elections, will…
HARARE – Eminent lawyer Munyaradzi Paul Mangwana is tipped to become the new Attorney General of Zimbabwe, highly-placed sources told the Daily News yesterday. The notification in this regard will be issued in the next couple of days and Mangwana is expected to assume office at some point next week. The 52-year-old Mangwana will replace…
HARARE – MDC chief election officer Morgen Komichi’s lawyer Alec Muchadehama has told the court that police hijacked the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec)’s election process, owing to the chaotic voting process. Muchadehama said this yesterday while cross examining the commission’s deputy chief elections officer Utoile Silaigwana. He said that the electoral body was now using…
HARARE – Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC has said outgoing Local Government minister Ignatius Chombo’s plan to block the nomination of mayoral candidates from the MDC was “ill-advised” and a blatant contravention of Section 272 (1) of the new Constitution. The new Constitution states that: “At the first sitting after every general election, a provincial council must…
LONDON – The UK is to put a resolution to the UN Security Council later on Wednesday “authorising necessary measures to protect civilians” in Syria. The resolution will be put forward at a meeting of the five permanent members of the council, UK Prime Minister David Cameron said on Twitter. Earlier a team of UN…
