HARARE – Zanu PF’s ambitious Young Turks known as the Generation 40 (G40) group, working in cahoots with other allies of President Robert Mugabe’s controversial wife Grace, are moving in on plucky War Veterans minister Christopher Mutsvangwa and his wife Monica, the Daily News has learnt. The power couple, both war veterans and believed to be…
HARARE – Hundreds of MDC supporters flooded Harare’s central business district yesterday demanding an end to President Robert Mugabe’s and Zanu PF’s three-and-a-half decades in power. The angry demonstrators, some of whom chanted “Mugabe kill us all or leave office”, bemoaned the lack of democratic space and slow pace of electoral reforms in the country….
HARARE – Zifa presidential aspirant and maverick businessman — Phillip Chiyangwa — whose quest to run the country’s football affairs is facing resistance from old school soccer timers, has received backing of the national supporters to lead the country’s supreme body. The flamboyant businessman and politician pitched his bid two weeks ago following the ouster of…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe should cut both his bloated Cabinet and costly foreign trips before his government moves to retrench civil servants as it is contemplating doing, the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) says. Commenting in the wake of weekend revelations that government is set to wield the axe on tens of thousands…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s daughter Bona and her in-laws are caught up in a damaging land dispute after they allegedly elbowed out Zanu PF political commissar for Mashonaland East Province Herbert Shumbamhini from his Divonia Farm in Goromonzi. Mashonaland East chief provincial lands officer Wilfred Motsi confirmed the development, but said the matter was…
HARARE – Controversial socialite and businessman Genius Kadungure says celebrities from 10 African countries attended the recent all-white party he recently hosted in Sandton, South Africa to celebrate his 31st birthday. Speaking through his spokesperson Shaleen “Ms Shally” Nullens, the Domboshava-born founder of Piko Group-a diversified company with interests in gas and solar-also poured cold…
BULAWAYO – So despondent is liberation struggle icon Dumiso Dabengwa with the glaring lack of democracy and its benefits in post-independent Zimbabwe that he now often wishes he was dead, in which event he says he does not want to be buried at the National Heroes Acre. Speaking to the Daily News in an exclusive…
HARARE – National Social Security Authority (Nssa) top executives who were sacked last week by the national insurer’s board, have challenged their retrenchment, saying it was in violation of the Labour Act. This comes as it emerged that the board announced to the media that it had cut ties with the executives yet in fact,…
NYANYADZI – Former prime minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC says President Robert Mugabe and his post-congress Zanu PF should brace themselves for more mass demonstrations until they restore democracy and respect human rights in the country. The warning follows a brutal police clampdown on the party’s supporters over the past few days, which has seen its…
HARARE – Opposition MPs want Parliament, through the portfolio committees of Finance and Agriculture, to probe First Lady Grace Mugabe on what they say is her abuse of public property — in the wake of her ongoing “donation” of government-sourced farming equipment to Zanu PF supporters only. Speaking during a parliamentary debate on Wednesday, Vice…
