February 2016

HARARE – If any further proof was required to show that the Zanu PF faction rallying behind Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s mooted presidential aspirations is reeling from the ruling party’s seemingly-unstoppable factional and succession wars, this was ruthlessly brought to the public fore yesterday. In an unprecedented move, anti-riot police mercilessly clamped down on a…

HARARE – The Zanu PF political careers of a number of allies of embattled Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa are hanging by a thread, after they appeared before the ruling party’s national disciplinary committee (NDC) on Wednesday night. Well-placed party sources told the Daily News yesterday that it was almost a foregone conclusion that the members…

HARARE – War Veterans minister Chris Mutsvangwa has threatened to sue police after its anti-riot ruthlessly put down their demonstration in support of embattled Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa against First Lady Grace Mugabe in Harare yesterday. Police fired teargas and used water cannons to disperse a handful of war veterans planning a march on the…

HARARE – Prosecutors handling the case of Prosecutor-General Johannes Tomana — charged with abuse of office and obstructing the course of justice — were yesterday taken to task why the top prosecutor must remain on remand. Tomana’s charges arose after he withdrew charges against two men accused of plotting to bomb President Robert Mugabe’s dairy…

HARARE – The governing Zanu PF has resolved to dissolve three provincial executives aligned to Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa who are frantically trying to head off the dethronement of their chairpersons. Zanu PF national political commissar Saviour Kasukuwere, nicknamed Tyson, told the Daily News that Mashonaland East, Masvingo, and Midlands that are resisting the suspension…

KARIBA – Zimbabwe Red Cross Society (ZRCS), in partnership with the Danish Red Cross, is implementing a disaster risk reduction project targeting 2 347 households in rural Kariba. The two institutions received funding from the World Bank global facility for disaster risk reduction. It will benefit rural communities of Mola, Negande and Nebiri which have…

HARARE – A High Court judge has ordered businessman John Arnold Bredenkamp to pay back over $3,8 million to his former friend and businessman Yakub Ibrahim Mohammed. Mohammed claimed in court during the civil trial that Bredenkamp borrowed the money to support the government’s troops in the Democratic Republic of Congo over a decade ago….