WASHINGTON – Former Finance minister Tendai Biti says foreign investors are willing to open businesses in Zimbabwe if the political situation improves. Biti, who is currently in Washington DC as a visiting fellow at the Centre for Global Development, said investors are watching the unfolding political drama in the country where a Zanu PF faction…
HARARE – HIV-related illnesses have been identified as one of the leading causes of deaths in Harare, the Harare City Council 2013 health report revealed. In a report presented to the health committee by health services director Prosper Chonzi, HCC noted that the number of deaths recorded in 2013 had dropped to 9 748 from…
HARARE – Climate change being experienced in Zimbabwe has affected farmers particularly those in communal lands who are now confused about when and what to farm given the erratic rainfall patterns characterised by long dry spells. The Daily News Community Affairs Editor Margaret Chinowaita (MC) got hold of Kennedy Mabehla, (KM), Principal Agricultural Extension Specialist…
HARARE – Former and current Zanu PF stalwarts say the Unity Accord signed between President Robert Mugabe and the late Vice President Joshua Nkomo in 1987 has lost significance owing to the debilitating political polarisation within the party. Since the signing of the accord, government has set aside December 22 as the day to celebrate…
TUNIS – Moncef Marzouki has refused to admit defeat in Tunisia’s first free presidential election after exit polls suggested Beji Caid Essebsi had won. The caretaker president, a former exile, said his rival’s declaration of victory was “undemocratic”. Mr Essebsi, 88, has been celebrating with supporters, telling them all Tunisians now need to “work together”,…
HARARE – Miss Zimbabwe 2014 Tendai Hunda has attributed her poor showing at the just-ended Miss World to hurried preparations. Hunda, the third Miss Zimbabwe to be crowned since August this year when Thabiso Phiri stepped down as national queen following an alleged nude pictures scandal, was handed the national beauty title four days before…
HARARE – Vice president Phelekezela Mphoko must explain to the nation his insinuations that President Robert Mugabe’s government was not responsible for the Gukurahundi massacres in the 1980s. The majority of Zimbabweans believe that Gukurahundi was perpetrated by the North Korean-trained Five Brigade at the instigation of then prime minister Mugabe to decimate Zipra cadres….
HARARE – There is an unprecedented groundswell of anger across the political and social divides in the country against President Robert Mugabe and Zanu PF’s misrule, with analysts saying yesterday that this boded well for keenly-anticipated national elections scheduled for 2018. Among the prominent political players who have raised their voices against the country’s deteriorating…
HARARE – Some angry Zimbabweans have called on newly-appointed Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko to either resign from his post or apologise profusely and unreservedly for his “thoughtless” views on the 1980s Gukurahundi massacres. This was after controversial utterances were attributed to Mphoko at the weekend which seemingly absolved the Zanu PF leadership led by President…
BULAWAYO – Zapu President Dumiso Dabengwa says his party has since held meetings with expelled Zanu PF cadres in a move likely to usher Zimbabwe into a new political discourse. Addressing journalists at the Bulawayo Press Club on Friday, Dabengwa described the purging of former Vice President Joice Mujuru and her allies as a well…
