HARARE – After trading his radio broadcasting with politics, Member of Parliament James Maridadi’s DJ legacy still continues as his two sons are professional DJs who enjoy spinning the discs. While working at ZBC’s Radio 3 in the 1990s, Maridadi became famous for his Junior 3 programme, a slot dedicated to children below the age…
HARARE – Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa is desperate to succeed President Robert Mugabe to an extent that he is rewriting the liberation struggle history casting himself as an integral party of the liberation war narrative and in the process lying about his heroic roles and, at the same time, denigrating the involvement of others like…
HARARE – When President Robert Mugabe ploughed through the wrong speech two weeks ago, he did not only waste the country’s time but also cost government thousands of dollars as Parliament had to reconvene the next day. Parliament had to be recalled for another sitting the following day so that Mugabe’s correct speech could be…
HARARE – With the warring post-congress Zanu PF’s ambitious Young Turks, the Generation 40 (G40) faction, cranking up the heat on Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa, veterans of Zimbabwe’s liberation struggle have joined the fray, questioning the embattled VP’s struggle credentials. Speaking in interviews with the Daily News on Sunday yesterday, three distinguished war veterans who…
HARARE – Since the Daily News came back in March 2011 from its eight years of forced and unjust closure by the government, the country’s top rated newspaper has led the way in terms of breaking news, telling it like it is and providing riveting analysis on issues that matter to Zimbabweans. The scores of…
HARARE – Nobody has actually called them the perfect couple — at least not in my hearing. They have been married for a while. The vast difference in age makes it a little wild to paste that monicker on them. There have been upheavals, but nothing sensational enough to suggest a break-up. The difference in…
AMSTERDAM – Telecel Zimbabwe (Telecel) parent company, VimpelCom Limited (Vimplecom), says it is preparing to file an international arbitration against the government next month for cancelling its licence and contravening bilateral investment promotion and protection agreements (Bippas). VimpelCom’s chief group business development and portfolio officer Anton Kudryashov yesterday told Zimbabwean journalists that while the global…
HARARE – Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai reiterated yesterday that he stood ready to work with former Vice President Joice Mujuru to ensure that President Robert Mugabe and his brawling post-congress Zanu PF were comprehensively defeated in the crunch 2018 national elections. Speaking at a rally in Muzarabani in Mashonaland Central, the former prime minister also…
HARARE – The family of theft-accused Allen Mbewe yesterday accused Chegutu police of “executing” their son, as officers insist he overdosed on anti-retroviral drugs. Mbewe family lawyers Bherebhende Law Chambers claim armed police killed the 44-year-old. The suspect was found dead in police cells at Chegutu Police Station on September 17 following his arrest for…
AMSTERDAM – Telecel Zimbabwe (Telecel)’s parent company, VimpelCom Limited, says it is preparing to file an international arbitration against government next month after it cancelled its mobile licence and contravened bilateral investment promotion and protection agreements (Bippas). VimpelCom’s chief group business development and portfolio officer Anton Kudryashov yesterday told Zimbabwean journalists that while the global…
