HARARE – At least 10 Cabinet ministers and more than 100 Zanu PF legislators face the political wilderness as the mindless bloodletting in the divided party reaches alarming levels ahead of its crucial “elective” congress scheduled for next week. The well-choreographed bloodbath, masterminded by the party’s bigwigs, is raising serious concerns about its impact on…
HARARE – Newly-elected war veterans’ leader Christopher Mutsvangwa has failed to secure a nomination into Zanu PF’s central committee. Mutsvangwa failed to garner a nomination at the Zanu PF Mashonaland West inter district meeting held on Sunday. Party insiders who attended the meeting said the vociferous war veterans leader styling himself as part of the…
HARARE – Kudakwashe Bhasikiti, the Masvingo Provincial Affairs minister, told President Robert Mugabe last weekend that all members of the Zanu PF politburo were in “wrong baskets”. Following a verbal shellacking he received from Mugabe during last week’s politburo meeting where the 90-year-old president asked Bhasikiti why he was “in the wrong basket”, the embattled…
HARARE – Disagreements over the party name and colours are threatening to scupper the union of the Welshman Ncube-led MDC and Tendai Biti’s renewal team, insiders have said. The parties are set to officially sign a “unity accord” tomorrow to become one political party and start preparing for a joint congress. While most of the…
MASVINGO – A municipal police officer who ran over a vegetable vendor’s three-month-old baby during an informal traders crackdown operation will languish in prison for the next one year. Jacob Mugova Mutero, 58, was convicted of culpable homicide by magistrate, Oliver Mudzongachiso. In passing judgment, Mudzongachiso condemned the municipal worker for negligent driving and taking…
HARARE – The resurgence of a re-vitalised informal sector operating under the guise of darkness in downtown Harare is eating into the smooth operations of supermarkets in the country. Recently released financial results from listed companies show retail outlets are feeling the pinch of the current liquidity crunch and the increasingly informalised economy as sales…
CAIRO – A block of flats has collapsed in Egypt’s capital, Cairo, killing at least 10 people, officials say. Seven people were also injured when the eight-storey building in the western suburb of Matariya collapsed overnight. Emergency services chief Gen Mamdouh Abdul Qader said rescue workers were searching through the rubble for 15 people who…
ST LOUIS – The St Louis suburb of Ferguson has seen rioting and looting after a jury decision not to bring charges over the killing of Michael Brown. A local police chief said the violence was “probably much worse than the worst night we ever had in August” after the black teenager was killed. St…
HARARE – Despite the fact that the Miss World Pageant began five days ago, the Miss Zimbabwe Trust insisted yesterday that national beauty queen Tendai Hunda will fly to London for the global beauty competition as soon as she secures a visa. Hunda — the third Miss Zimbabwe to be crowned within the last five…
HARARE – Dendera artiste Douglas Chimbetu and popular comedian Uncle Ritchie of the Zvinombofamba Sei fame will be among the star performers at the inaugural Hurungwe Arts Festival which takes place this weekend. Joel Zilala, one of the organisers of the arts showcase, told the Daily News that Mashonaland West’s first ever festival will be…
