HARARE – Zimbabwe Open University pro-vice chancellor Gabriel Kabanda has been dragged to the Harare Civil Court by his wife Patience Sadombe over child support. Sadombe told the court she was not getting financial support for their three children. “He hasn’t been providing for the children and does not buy food or buy groceries for…
HARARE – Outgoing Justice and Legal Affairs deputy minister and MDC Harare provincial spokesperson Obert Gutu (OG) was nominated by MDC to serve as Harare mayor. The Daily News reporter Wendy Muperi (WM) spoke to Gutu (OG) on various issues covering his new conceivable office. Below are excerpts of the interview. WM: May you give…
HARARE – Parliament is desperately looking for new premises, with attempts to convert the City Sports Centre into a legislative chamber flopping because of space constraints. Kennedy Chokuda, the deputy clerk of Parliament and two legislators Joel Biggie Matiza and Daniel Mackenzie Ncube, both of them architects, toured the City Sports Centre on Monday with…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s utterances at the National Heroes Acre on Sunday regarding the Bulawayo and Harare metropolitan electorate shows strong and bad-tempered desire for revenge never witnessed before. On the one hand, the vindictive threats he made portray an eloquent demonstration of how, after all these years in politics, he lacks requisite understanding…
EDITOR — I write this letter regarding the late national hero Mike Karakadzai’s story published in a different publication. Nevertheless, I am hopeful that your readers will be able to relate to it since the death of Karakadzai, who was the general manager of the National Railways of Zimbabwe, was a national issue and was…
EDITOR — The Combined Harare Residents Association would like to condemn the statement issued by President Robert Mugabe during the burial of former liberation fighter Mike Karakadzai. The president threatened Harare and Bulawayo residents with unspecified action for investing their vote in Morgan Tsvangirai, who leads the biggest opposition party in Zimbabwe. In Harare, the…
EDITOR — On August 25, 2013 there was a congratulatory message in a local weekly newspaper from the Methodist Church in Zimbabwe (MCZ), for the President’s inauguration. In the advert the presiding bishop congratulated the president and went on to include other bishops, reverends and the entire Methodist community. I am a member of the…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s threat to seize the assets of British companies operating in Zimbabwe is likely to deal a fatal blow to the country’s economy, economists warned yesterday. Condemning comments by the 89-year-old president, economists described Mugabe’s threat to nationalise foreign-owned firms as “dangerous posturing”, which would only discourage foreign investors Zimbabwe desperately…
HARARE – MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai is set to vacate his Charter House office at the end of this month. Tsvangirai’s spokesperson Luke Tamborinyoka confirmed the development saying the PM’s office — situated along Samora Machel Avenue in Harare — was winding down its operations following the inauguration of President Robert Mugabe for a seventh…
JOHANNESBURG – A nasty spat has arisen between the Mail & Guardian (M&G) and Iqbal Survé, the chairperson of Sekunjalo Independent Media Consortium, which recently bought Independent News & Media South Africa for R2 billion. The Mail & Guardian was apparently incensed after Survé refused to sell to its chairperson, Trevor Ncube, and his funders,…
