HARARE – Last week’s handling of the Telecel saga by government leaves a lot to be desired as it has consequences of scaring away potential investors at a time the economy is in the doldrums and in dire need of fresh capital to jump-start it. President Robert Mugabe’s administration showed all and sundry — for…
HARARE – In a development that could worsen the deadly factional and succession wars devouring President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF, High Court judge Chinembiri Bhunu has sanctioned the party’s two feuding candidates for the keenly-contested Harare East Constituency in the forthcoming by-elections. Justice Bhunu also ordered the ruling party to sort out its own mess,…
HARARE – Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko’s Choppies Supermarkets are on a collision course with Christlove Church, as the two fight over renting premises in Gweru’s Mkoba suburb. The church, through its lawyer Simon Simango, has filed a High Court application seeking to bar Choppies from carrying out construction works at the premises and taking occupation….
HARARE – A Harare magistrate yesterday denied bail to three MDC youths allegedly behind the petrol bombing of Zanu PF Harare youth league chairperson Godwin Gomwe’s Budiriro house. Tendai Muchekamanzu, 38, Stephen Dalaina, 26, and Victor Munhuwani, 36, appeared before magistrate Tendai Mahwe charged with malicious damage to property. Mahwe said releasing the trio would…
HARARE – Controversial businessman-cum-musician Energy Mutodi, has dropped his bid to fight for the Mashonaland East Zanu PF chairpersonship and has thrown his weight behind minister of State for the province, Joel Biggie Matiza. In a surprise somersault, Mutodi told the Daily News that he is no longer interested in the post as he is…
HARARE – Zimbabwe has been removed from the international financial blacklist after the country took steps towards improving its role in the global fight against money laundering and terrorist financing, a Cabinet minister said. Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa welcomed the move by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) to remove the country from a monitored…
HARARE – A close ally of former Vice President Joice Mujuru says the popular 60-year-old widow of the late liberation struggle icon, General Solomon Mujuru, will challenge President Robert Mugabe or whoever will represent the post-congress Zanu PF in the much-anticipated 2018 presidential elections. The spokesperson of disaffected Zanu PF stalwarts, who now operate as…
HARARE – Ignatius Chombo, the Zanu PF secretary for administration, has unwittingly revealed how his party rigs elections using traditional chiefs. In a video circulating on social media, Chombo is seen addressing Hurungwe West headmen and warning them that they should not associate with independent candidate Temba Mliswa. The minister says he has put up…
HARARE – High-flying Tourism minister Walter Mzembi, and, arguably President Robert Mugabe’s blue-eyed boy is under fire, as his peers in both government and Zanu PF, daily plot for his downfall, including omitting him on government itineraries. In an interview with the Daily News, Mzembi said he is perplexed by decisions by officials in the…
HARARE – Zimbabwe Nurses Association (Zina) has scoffed at the unrestrained attack by Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association (ZHDA), describing the remarks as not representative of the doctors’ fraternity. At the centre of the fight is $1,5 million availed this January by Treasury to cover health sector employees’ allowances. Nurses feel the money is being shared…
