HARARE – Zanu PF’s factional fights have taken their toll on the country’s economy that needs serious and urgent attention. While Zimbabwe is reeling in poverty the ruling party’s factional fights seem to have diverted all the attention from the economy. Zanu PF’s fights are likely to hog the limelight until after the party’s December…
HARARE – Manchester-based Zimbabwean musician La’Diva Leila Million has over the last few years frequented festivals in the United Kingdom and United States of America where she has shared the stage with top international stars. With five albums under her belt which cover genres such as rhumba, soukous, zouk and salsa, Leila’s music career is…
HARARE – Musaemura Zimunya, chairman of the Zimbabwe International Book Fair (ZIBF), says the country’s overhyped high literacy status should translate into an equally impressive reading culture. Zimbabwe has for the past three consecutive years been ranked as the country with the highest literacy rate in Africa but Zimunya, a celebrated poet and academic, finds…
HARARE – Claims that some youth leaders in the deeply divided Zanu PF are being victimised because of their allegiance to First Lady Grace Mugabe are part of the dirty succession wars to hoodwink 90-year-old President Robert Mugabe to turn against those perceived to sympathise with Vice President Joice Mujuru, documents seen by the Daily…
HARARE – Elizabeth, wife to former prime minister Morgan Tsvangirai, says her life is in danger and she no longer feels safe as she is being followed round the clock by people she suspects to have a sinister agenda. In an exclusive telephone interview with the Daily News yesterday, Elizabeth, who is now into real…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe jets into Harare today from a begging trip in China only holding a bag of secretive agreements and signatures but with no cash to revive an economy which is virtually on its knees. Instead of raising hope among the suffering millions of Zimbabweans, most of whom cannot afford a meal…
HARARE – A high-level team comprising of Zanu PF Manicaland provincial leadership yesterday descended on the late Kumbirai Kangai’s Glen Forest Farm in Harare for his memorial service. From chronicling his first interactions with the ex-Cabinet minister at Cold Comfort Farm in 1967 to narrating their second encounter in Britain in 1973, Presidential Affairs minister…
HARARE – Details have emerged that former Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor Gideon Gono, mysteriously travelled to the US in 2006 while under Washington’s travel embargo where he met current vice President and then senator Joe Biden to lobby for the removal of sanctions. The Daily News on Sunday has also established that Gono…
HARARE – The Women’s Parliamentary Caucus has called on government to allow women who would have been raped to abort unwanted pregnancies as espoused in the new Constitution. Female legislators said this during a workshop to discuss family laws and their realignment with the new Constitution in Harare on Friday. Delegates expressed concern over Section…
HARARE – Journalists have demanded that ministers and top management in government boards be made accountable on how they handle public funds. Media practitioners attending a parliamentary workshop in Nyanga organised by the Parliamentary portfolio committee on Public Accounts, last week took Clerk of Parliament, Austin Zvoma, to task demanding public Parliamentary hearings. Journalists said…
