HARARE – Top Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) officials Nelson Chamisa, Douglas Mwonzora and Tapiwa Mashakada are entangled in a “titanic battle” for the party’s secretary-general (SG) post. The epic clash comes in the wake of the party’s ex-secretary general Tendai Biti’s decision to start a breakaway faction, triggering a bitter power fight to take…
HARARE – Zimbabwe has been declared free of the deadly Ebola virus that has killed almost 3 000 people in West Africa. This comes in the wake of false Namibian media reports that the haemorrhagic fever had been detected in Zimbabwe. Legislators yesterday asked deputy Health and Child Care minister Paul Chimedza in Senate to…
MUTARE – President Robert Mugabe has blocked a senior government official’s attempt to grab a farm from an elderly Zanu PF-affiliated white couple. Francis Gudyanga, the Mines ministry permanent secretary, had kicked Tennis Zimbabwe honorary life president, Ann Pearson Martin, 73, and her 76-year-old husband Frank Thomas Martin out of their 660- hectare Five Streams…
HARARE – Zimbabwean transport baron and Pioneer Corporation Africa director, Simon George Wilburn Rudland yesterday, denied a $2 million fraud charge levelled against him when his trial opened at the Harare Magistrates’ Courts yesterday. Rudland faces allegations that he forged ownership documents for four properties worth $2,3 million belonging to Future Chirango Muvirimi. Appearing before…
HARARE – So we wake up to read that Gideon Gono, former Governor of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe, will not be a Senator any time soon because he is not registered to vote in Manicaland. We really care little whether or not Gono becomes a Senator. The truth is, it really won’t change anything…
HARARE – The Daily News hereby publishes a statement issued by Information minister Jonathan Moyo on the Gideon Gono senatorial saga in Buhera. THE Ministry wishes to correct three gross misrepresentations in a statement attributed to Dr Gideon Gono and widely reported today by the mainstream media. Firstly, Dr Gono is reported to have, in…
NEW YORK – The United States and the European Union should remove their “unilateral and illegal sanctions,” says Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe as he berates them for trying to achieve “regime change” through sanctions in his country. “These evil sanctions violate the fundamental principles of the United Nations Charter and should be condemned by the…
HARARE – Zimbabwe must invest in re-establishing local diamond auctions to avoid being short-changed at international markets, Mungai Lenneiye, former World Bank Zimbabwe country manager said. This comes as Mines minister Walter Chidakwa last week said the country will resume auctioning its diamonds locally in November this year on the back of challenges faced at…
HARARE – There is nothing fancy about the man. He’s not famous. You probably never heard of him – and even if you have, his name didn’t ring a bell. It begs the question, why? Is it because Lazarus Zizhou is the ultimate epitome of modesty, or a victim of a system that forgets, discards…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s daughter Bona has reportedly kicked out a white farmer from his farm. While details remained sketchy yesterday, the white farmer, only identified as Nathan, vacated his Divonia Farm along the Harare-Nyamapanda highway yesterday. When the Daily News crew visited the farm just outside Harare yesterday, the terrified farmer was preparing…
