HARARE – Despite public protestations to the contrary, President Robert Mugabe’s cash-strapped government is moving with speed to identify and retrench tens of thousands of civil servants in a bid to contain its ballooning wage bill that is sucking most of its resources, the Daily News on Sunday has established. Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa (pictured)…
HARARE – Former Vice President Joice Mujuru has been forced to upgrade her security amid fears that some of her political enemies in the warring post-congress Zanu PF “continue to plot day and night” against the presumptive People First leader. This comes as the Daily News has recently reported that the hapless widow of the…
MUTARE – The seemingly-unstoppable factional and succession wars ripping President Robert Mugabe’s post-congress Zanu PF apart have now taken an ominous turn in Manicaland, with regional women’s league members seen as working against the nonagenarian’s controversial wife Grace receiving death threats. At the centre of the increasingly-ugly ructions in the troubled province is a push…
HARARE – Zimbabwe could soon be plunged into total darkness if water levels in Kariba Dam do not improve soon, Energy minister Samuel Undenge has said. He told a Zimbabwe National Chamber of Commerce meeting in the capital yesterday that while power generation at Kariba was already 36 percent below optimum capacity, this was set…
MUTARE – The deadly factional and succession wars that are ripping the post-congress Zanu PF apart have gone a notch higher in Manicaland after Macro-Economic Planning deputy minister Monica Mutsvangwa, openly threw her weight behind under-fire allies of Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa. As the officials under siege in the troubled province are not in the…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) has signed its first engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract with Intratrek Zimbabwe (Private) Limited (Intratrek) – just a week after government has awarded the 300 megawatt (MW) projects to three companies. This also comes as Harare grapples with a 1 200MW deficit that has occasioned blackouts of…
HARARE – Jamaican multi-genre artiste Busy Signal’s maiden concert held at the Glamis Arena on Saturday night was worth the wait! Despite being one of the most celebrated Jamaican artistes on the international stage for close time now, Busy Signal had not performed in Zimbabwe until this weekend, when he rocked thousands of adoring fans….
JOHANNESBURG – Twenty-nine people have been charged with public violence in South Africa following the biggest student protests to hit the country since minority rule ended in 1994. Police fired tear gas and stun grenades on Wednesday to disperse students who had stormed the parliamentary complex. The 29 who appeared in court in Cape Town…
HARARE – Alistair Campbell has quit his post as Zimbabwe Cricket (ZC) director international cricket and commercial affairs after an eventful 10-month stay. The former Zimbabwe Test captain tendered his resignation to ZC chief executive Wilfred Mukondiwa and is now serving his three-month notice until the end of the year. The Daily News saw Campbell’s…
HARARE – CAPS United president Farai Jere has reached an agreement to sell 20 percent of the club’s shares to board member Nhamo Tutisani as the Green Machine’s value increases. Jere, who bought a controlling stake in the club in May, will now remain with 60 percent equity while vice president Twine Phiri retains his…
