KIGALI – Rwandans have voted overwhelmingly to allow President Paul Kagame to extend his term in office, initial referendum results show. Some 98% of voters support changing the constitution to allow him to run again in 2017 after his second term ends, the National Electoral Commission said. Mr Kagame, 58, could remain in power until…
HARARE – As the race to succeed President Robert Mugabe in the warring post-congress Zanu PF intensifies, embattled Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s allies are coming under more pressure from the Midlands godfather’s party foes. Well-placed sources told the Daily News on Sunday yesterday that the former liberation movement’s deadly factional and succession wars had become…
HARARE – With Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his allies under the cosh in the warring post-congress Zanu PF, erstwhile comrades of the embattled VP are rubbing it in by inviting him to join the “original” Zanu PF that uses the slogan People First. Former Presidential Affairs minister Didymus Mutasa told the Daily News on…
HARARE – The Zanu PF politburo will at its next meeting decide the fate of War Veterans minister Christopher Mutsvangwa who was recently banished from the Zanu PF Mashonaland West Province, party national spokesperson Simon Khaya Moyo has said. Khaya Moyo told the Daily News on Sunday yesterday that while the Mashonaland West provincial executive…
HARARE – The MDC remains the country’s biggest opposition political party. In light of this, the Daily News on Sunday reporters Tendai Kamhungira and Blessings Mashaya (DNS) took time to speak to the party’s spokesperson Obert Gutu (OB), in a wide-ranging interview that touches on the party’s stance on electoral reforms among other issues. DNS:…
HARARE – Opposition leader and former prime minister in the government of national unity, Morgan Tsvangirai, has warned President Robert Mugabe and his warring post-congress Zanu PF about their “continued repression of the people”. Speaking in an interview with the Daily News yesterday — after authorities banned a church-organised meeting in Harare that was to…
MUTARE – In what could prove to be the tipping point in the post-congress Zanu PF’s seemingly unstoppable factional and succession wars, the Daily News has reliably learnt that political heavyweight Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri is on the verge of being hit with the party’s infamous vote of no confidence. This comes as allies of the Water…
HARARE – A war of words has erupted between top officials of the opposition MDC and their Zanu PF counterparts after the ruling party’s national political commissar, Saviour Kasukuwere, accused opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai of causing the suffering of Zimbabweans. Addressing party supporters at a rally in Bulawayo to drum up support for the Zanu…
HARARE – Dynamos Football Club has dragged the Zimbabwe Premier Soccer League (PSL) to court, seeking to bar the country’s top-flight league from holding on to its funds over a debt owed to Barclays Bank of Zimbabwe (Barclays). In the urgent chamber application, Dynamos, which is being represented by Farai Nyamayaro, cited PSL and Barclays…
HARARE – Diaspora remittances to Zimbabwe have overtaken foreign direct investments (FDI) due to the country’s controversial economic policies that continue to push foreign investors away, latest data from Treasury shows. Figures released by the Finance ministry this week revealed that Diaspora remittances in the 11 months to November this year increased by 97 percent…
