HARARE – Ousted former war veterans’ leader Jabulani Sibanda has savaged Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko as a “clueless and confused opportunist” who is lying about Gukurahundi and who allegedly deserted Zapu during the liberation struggle to enjoy an easier life in Mozambique. Responding to Mphoko’s attack on him at a rally in Bulawayo on Sunday,…
HARARE – Opposition MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai has described Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who is heavily tipped to succeed President Robert Mugabe, as an unpopular strongman who cannot win an election. Addressing supporters at a rally in Harare’s Kuwadzana high density suburb yesterday, Tsvangirai said he would embarrass Mnangagwa come 2018 should Zanu PF make…
HARARE – Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition executive director McDonald Lewanika speaks to Senior Assistant Editor Guthrie Munyuki about civic society’s role in the current discourse and the political terrain. Below are the excerpts of the interview. Q: Zimbabwe civil society is accused of having a stork syndrome — hiding one leg — in this current…
HARARE – Former Presidential Affairs minister Didymus Mutasa says Zimbabwe is destined to remain a nation of street vendors unless post-congress Zanu PF leaders concentrate on fixing the country’s comatose economy rather than their “destructive” factional and succession wars. Speaking in an interview with the Daily News last week, Mutasa accused ruling Zanu PF bigwigs,…
HARARE – The MDC, stung by a withering attack on its leader by Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa, has come out guns blazing declaring it will scupper his presidential bid. Mnangagwa taunted the MDC and Morgan Tsvangirai for their defeat in the 2008 elections and latest boycott of the impending by-elections. But MDC spokesperson Obert Gutu…
HARARE – The wave of political expulsions in Zanu PF is not subsiding yet Information minister Jonathan Moyo calls its genesis, the accusations of wanting to topple President Robert Mugabe levelled against former Vice President Joice Mujuru and a host of other party leaders by a hysterical First Lady, Grace ‘Dr Gucci’ Mugabe, “political banter”….
HARARE – Last week, a parliamentary delegation visited prisons in the capital — Chikurubi Maximum, Chikurubi Female as well as Harare Central prisons — to assess the conditions in which inmates live. This came as Chikurubi Maximum Prison was, in March, rocked by riots over food and other living conditions. The major reason why offenders…
HARARE – Colourful businessman Philip Chiyangwa gave music star Jah Prayzah two stands worth $27 000 during the launch of the Uzumba-born musician’s latest album titled Jerusarema at the Harare International Conference Centre (HICC) on Friday night. The two stands pledged by Chiyangwa during the auction of Jerusarema include a Harare one worth $12 000…
HARARE – Rave queen Rozalla Miller (51) is confident that her latest single If You Say It Again, which is currently enjoying a good run on the US Billboard Charts, will reaffirm her status as a global star. The Zimbabwe-bred musician, who was born in the Zambian city of Ndola, told the Daily News on…
HARARE – Moira Kambanje, 66, can now receive money from her daughter in South Africa, buy groceries, pay bills and also send money to her other child at a local university. She does this without even visiting the bank or the city council offices. How times change! The revolution spurred by mobile money transfer is…
