HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s payout to former Vice President Joice Mujuru has exposed his wife’s lack of understanding of State architecture and rule of law, analysts say. On Friday, through the government gazette, Mugabe set out Mujuru’s exit package despite utterances and suggestions by the First Lady a day earlier in Binga that the…
HARARE – Zanu PF insiders say President Robert Mugabe’s increasingly influential wife, Grace, is dreaming anew about succeeding her nonagenarian husband, with the ruling party’s ambitious Young Turks, the Generation 40 (G40) group, apparently continuing to play a “sneaky role” as they plot to thwart Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s presidential aspirations. Well-placed sources who spoke…
HARARE – Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai fears his Highlands mansion has been bugged following last month’s raid by the assistant sheriff of the High Court and police officers in an attempt to seize property. The Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO), never comments on operational intelligence matters. The former prime minister told the Daily News on Sunday…
HARARE – Most Harare suburbs were yesterday hit by serious power cuts lasting 12 hours due to scheduled maintenance work. Yesterday’s power cuts came barely 24 hours after greater Harare was plunged into darkness for 10 hours on Friday. In a statement, the Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC), said yesterday’s 12-hour interruption was…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF government, known for its patronage system and use of gullible supporters to win votes, has no appetite to arrest land barons who are accused of fuelling illegal settlements in towns and major cities, analysts say. This comes as the Zanu PF government is demolishing houses built on illegal…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe yesterday flew out to Botswana to join other Heads of States at the 35th Sadc summit where he will relinquish his region’s chairmanship post. The development could be a relief to cash-strapped government and the nonagenarian himself who has clocked more than 140 00km of travelling mostly on official business…
HARARE – As the Zimbabwe economy continues to choke, throwing workers onto the streets and companies closing down, there have been a few smiles elsewhere as a result of this carnage. It is the auctioneer who is smiling all the way to the bank. And as fate would have it, some of the banks are…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s impoverished youths, whose job prospects have dimmed with the continuing economic meltdown, have been rallied to confront President Robert Mugabe and his Zanu PF government. Leading the calls for taking action against Mugabe are expelled former Mashonaland West chairman Temba Mliswa and MDC Kuwadzana East MP, Nelson Chamisa, who accuse them of…
HARARE – The United States has nominated Harry Thomas to replace its outgoing ambassador, Bruce Wharton, as its representative to Zimbabwe. Thomas is a career member of the US Foreign Service. The 59-year-old is now awaiting approval from the United States senate and President Barack Obama. Wharton presented his credentials as US ambassador to Zimbabwe…
HARARE – Afro-fusion musician Jah Prayzah’s latest album Jerusarema has brought him fame and fortune but in the process he has lost his privacy. The country’s current favourite musician told the Daily News on Sunday at his new offices in Belvedere that he misses window shopping in the bustling streets of Harare thanks to his…
