HARARE – To its credit, the Bernard Gabriel Manyenyeni-led MDC council has honoured its pledge to demolish illegally-built houses. The Harare City Council last week sent excavators to Airport Road and, without notifying the residents, destroyed the houses. True, demolition gets rid of unsightly structures that contribute to blight and invite disorder, looters and vermin….
HARARE – The factional and succession wars devouring President Robert Mugabe’s post-congess Zanu PF have plumbed new lows after a disciplinary committee in embattled Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s Midlands heartland returned a hotly-disputed verdict on raging infighting in the troubled province. Well-placed sources told the Daily News yesterday that the ruling party faction known as…
HARARE – The outcome of the Zanu PF Midlands provincial hearings into allegations of harassment of ministers by party officials linked to Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s faction have been described as “shamelessly partisan”. This was said by the three ministers at the heart of the matter — Makhosini Hlongwane, Tapiwa Matangaidze and Annastancia Ndhlovu —…
HARARE – Two Zimbabwe National Army corporals were arraigned before the courts yesterday for allegedly conniving with an opposition political party official and an ex-army officer to bomb President Robert Mugabe’s Alpha Omega Dairies. President of the Zimbabwe People’s Front political party, Owen Kuchata, 34, ZNA corporals Borman Ngwenya, 30, Solomon Makumbe, 29, and an…
HARARE – The Welshman Ncube-led MDC yesterday condemned the demolition of homes along Airport Road in Harare by the mainstream MDC-run Harare City Council in cahoots with government. The smaller opposition party contended that such a move amounted to forced displacement and would only heighten tensions. The MDC statement came days after bulldozers started demolishing…
HARARE – Teachers have petitioned Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa to intervene and halt the government’s recall of teachers on vacation. Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) said it was seeking an urgent meeting with the VP, and hopes it may stop the “victimisation” that teachers are being subjected to. A fortnight ago, government sent out…
HARARE – Embattled Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s Zanu PF allies are going for broke in their steely determination to swat down their party rivals, the cunning Generation 40 faction, and have the Midlands godfather succeed President Robert Mugabe. After several suspended Zanu PF officials aligned to the VP publicly posed for pictures wearing T-shirts labelled…
HARARE – After jetting into Harare on Friday evening to meet with Equatorial Guinea president Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo — on the back of his month-long holiday overseas — President Robert Mugabe is expected to fly to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to hand over the chairmanship of the African Union. At the same time, analysts and…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s nephew Robert Zhuwao has bemoaned the current demolitions taking place at Arlington Farm along Airport Road. Ironically, the demolitions are taking place at the behest of none other than his namesake and uncle who last year described the buildings as an eyesore. And with vigour the city of Harare is…
HARARE – An alleged close ally of embattled Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been sucked in a damaging land wrangle in Harare South — with frustrated local residents accusing the bigwig of fronting for a white farmer and pushing them away from the land that they invaded in 2000 and subsequently obtained offer letters for…
