HARARE – Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC has submitted to the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) names of seven proportional representative candidates set to fill vacancies in Parliament following the recall of rebel MPs who defected to the renewal team. The party this week submitted a list featuring only one standing committee member — Theresa Makone. The other…
HARARE – A Zimbabwean man has been arraigned before the Chitungwiza Magistrates’ Court after he threatened to kill a South African national in a tit-for-tat attack to revenge the killing of seven foreigners in the neighbouring country. Reason Tsoka, 28, appeared before magistrate Lazarus Murendo, who remanded him out of custody to today. According to…
HARARE – Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai yesterday told thousands of his supporters that the MDC will not take part in any future elections, including the much anticipated 2018 general polls, unless electoral reforms are put in place. Addressing hundreds of his party supporters in Harare’s Glen View suburb, Tsvangirai said partaking in any polls in…
BEIJING – China issued a travel warning this week to Chinese citizens planning to visit South Africa amid the ongoing deadly xenophobic attacks on foreigners in the country, which have killed at least seven people in the past few weeks. The Chinese government also urged its nationals living in South Africa who need help to…
HARARE – Celebrated gospel artistes Charles and Olivia Charamba have cancelled a show set for Cape Town due to the ongoing xenophobic violence in South Africa. The two gospel artistes told the Daily News that holding the concert under the current environment could endanger not only their lives but those of fellow Zimbabweans resident in…
HARARE – Award-winning Tumbuka Dance Company will return to this year’s Harare International Festival of the Arts (Hifa) with a presentation of renowned choreographer Snoden Filimon’s latest work titled We Were Made Men. Tumbuka’s Hifa 2015 show, that will take place at Reps Theatre on May 1, explores the childish traits that linger in the…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) is expected to record negative growth this year due to political uncertainties and depressed economic activity, market experts have warned. Equities research firm Lynton-Edwards Stockbrokers (Les) this week projected the local bourse to close approximately 10 percent in the negative position at year end. “Factors that support our…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s economy is set to slump further this year due to continued decline in global commodity prices, fiscal challenges, and possible difficulties in policy implementation, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said. This comes as the Bretton Woods institution had earlier predicted that Zimbabwe’s economy would grow by 2,8 percent this year compared…
HARARE – Zimbabweans are yet to benefit from the so-called mega deals signed between the Zanu PF-led government and various countries that include China, Russia, Algeria and South Africa among others. Since Zanu PF won another mandate in the July 31, 2013 election — albeit under controversial circumstances — crisis-weary Zimbabweans have been bombarded with…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe is said to be seething with anger against the influential group of senior Zanu PF officials who are derisively known as the Gang of Four, amid serious accusations that its members are taking advantage of their positions both in the party and government to advance their narrow economic and political…
