HARARE – First Lady Grace Mugabe’s current visit to China has raised a stink within the bitterly-divided post-congress Zanu PF, with her party foes suggesting that the trip is allegedly meant to fundraise for her bid to take over from her frail nonagenarian husband, President Robert Mugabe. Well-placed sources told the Daily News yesterday that…
HARARE – Elton Mangoma’s newly-formed opposition Renewal Democrats of Zimbabwe (RDZ) has hardened its opposition to a political deal with other opposition parties. An opposition coalition is seen as critical to the outcome of the closest election for a generation expected in 2018. Analysts say none of the myriad opposition political parties would be able…
MOSCOW – Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad has visited Moscow on his first overseas trip since the civil war broke out in his country in 2011, state TV says. During the surprise visit, he held talks with President Vladimir Putin. Russia launched air strikes in Syria last month against the so-called Islamic State and other militant…
EDITOR — Allow me to express my views on the hot topic of succession in Zanu PF. I have been a staunch supporter of Zanu PF under President Robert Mugabe for more than two decades but it does not make me blind to the realities on the ground. One of the most contentious issues which…
HARARE – Newly-appointed Indigenisation minister Patrick Zhuwao will next week headline the Zimbabwe Mining and Tax Law Market Briefing 2015 in South Africa where he is expected to clarify the country’s empowerment laws. Enacted in 2008, the indigenisation law requires foreign firms to hand over 51 percent of shares to local partners. However, there is…
HARARE – Mighty Warriors assistant coach Sithethelelwe “Kwinji 15” Sibanda says the team need to start preparing early after sealing qualification for the 2016 Rio Olympic Games at the weekend. The Mighty Warriors wrote their own piece of history by becoming the first football side in the country to qualify for the global sporting showpiece…
HARARE – Recently-launched Zvishavane-based YAFM radio station is struggling to attract advertising, its chief executive officer Munyaradzi Hwengwere has revealed. The privately-owned radio station, headed by former Power FM boss Davies Mugadza, began operations last month and has found the going very tough. “We launched at a time when the economy is not conducive for…
HARARE – The National Social Security Authority (Nssa) has embarked on a major top management shake-up that resulted in the departure of former general manager James Matiza who has been immediately replaced with ex-BancABC Zimbabwe managing director Hashmon Matemera. Nssa on Monday said Matemera’s appointment is, however, not expected to extend beyond the latest date…
HARARE – In another ringing endorsement of opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, former Presidential Affairs minister Didymus Mutasa says the MDC president was always right on his “principled stand” against a “rotten” Zanu PF led by “self-seeking looters” who now belonged to the “dustbin of history”. Speaking to the Daily News at the weekend, the former…
HARARE – The minister of State for Mashonaland Central Martin Dinha’s lawyer Tapson Dzvetero has accused the State of attempting to ambush him in a case in which his client is accused of soliciting $60 000 from a white commercial farmer. Dinha’s trial was supposed to begin yesterday before High Court judge Happious Zhou. Dzvetero…
