HARARE – Government created the economic mess currently being experienced in the country and is lacking capacity to turn around the country’s economic fortunes, an economist has said. Brains Muchemwa, a renowned economist told delegates at the Mandel/GIBS 2015 economic outlook symposium held last week that government lacked capacity and will power to implement necessary…
HARARE – Zimbabwe is ranked among the countries with a dynamic Information Communication Technology (ICT) growth and this is on the back of significant strides made by the government of national unity. It is surprising therefore that Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Morgan Tsvangirai is acting against some of the achievements made during his…
HARARE – Legal experts say Zanu PF hawks are using thuggish tactics to frustrate the legal rights of disaffected party stalwarts, including former Presidential Affairs minister Didymus Mutasa, who wants to take President Robert Mugabe’s party to the courts for allegedly trampling intra-party democracy. This follows ongoing comments by party bigwigs regarding the mooted legal…
HARARE – In a further sign that all is not well in Welshman Ncube’s MDC, the party’s embattled secretary-general, Priscilla Misihairabwi-Mushonga, has dared her colleagues to kick her out of the fledgling opposition party. Responding on Facebook to a scathing letter from a party member against her, that appeared in the Daily News at the…
HARARE – Jacob Mudenda, Speaker of the National Assembly, has threatened to punish Cabinet ministers and their deputies who are in the habit of absenting themselves from Parliament without good reason. Mudenda told the Daily News yesterday that Parliament’s Standing Rules and Orders Committee (SROC) will meet today to deliberate on the matter. He said…
HARARE – Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai spent the whole of last Friday with ordinary Zimbabweans who lost homes, property and crops in Mbire floods that wrecked livelihoods in the Zambezi Valley in Mashonaland Central. The MDC leader left tonnes of household packs that included tents, blankets, clothes and groceries for the hundreds of families in…
HARARE – Government is mooting an ambitious roll-out of anti-retroviral drugs (ARVs) to every Zimbabwean who tests HIV positive. David Parirenyatwa, the Health and Child Care minister, told delegates to a Southern Africa HIV and AIDS Information Dissemination Service (SafAIDS) community event in Mhondoro-Ngezi last Friday that all HIV positive people should access the life-prolonging…
HARARE – Everyone has an idea in their head when they hear the term “sex worker”. But what does a woman who works on the streets really look like in 2015? Last week, we went to Mhondoro-Ngezi with a project which offers support and counselling to sex workers. Among the interesting, touching and frightening things…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s grinding economic crisis has done nothing to alter the ruling Zanu PF party’s ambitions to mark its leader’s 91st birthday with unrestrained feasting in the resort town of Victoria Falls. School children and Zanu PF youth brigades from the 10 political provinces will hold parades to mark the occasion. As in previous…
HARARE – A worried First Lady, Grace Mugabe, is said to be apoplectic about the alleged poor planning and response by President Robert Mugabe’s aides when the nonagenarian fell at the Harare International Airport last Wednesday. Sources told the Daily News on Sunday yesterday that so angry was Grace — whom Mugabe has said is…
