March 2016

HARARE – Fearful of losing the eagerly-anticipated 2018 national elections, a panicky Zanu PF has just re-admitted three legislators linked to former Vice President Joice Mujuru’s Zimbabwe People First in Mashonaland East, who were facing expulsion from the party. The provincial executive resolved to boot out National Assembly members Tendayi Makunde (Murehwa North), Felix Tapiwa…

BULAWAYO – Former Education minister David Coltart says he is ready to face Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa in court after the Midlands godfather threatened to sue him over remarks that the VP allegedly made at the time of the Gukurahundi massacres in the early 1980s. In an interview with the Daily News yesterday, Coltart said…

HARARE – In an unprecedented move, both Zanu PF and MDC MPs are demanding another bumper pay rise at a time the economy is teetering on the brink of collapse, the Daily News can reveal. The revelation will spark renewed uproar, as the rest of the austerity-hit nation continues to endure flat wages. The MPs…

HARARE – The Meteorological Department says intermittent light to moderate rain will persist across the country. All provinces will have rain showers and thunderstorms periodically. The Met Department statement said heavy rains will likely occur in Mashonaland East and Central as well as in the Manicaland provinces. “Scattered rain and thunderstorm activity should continue in…

HARARE – The maize being imported into Zimbabwe from Zambia is coming from white commercial farmers evicted during the often-violent land invasions here, President Robert Mugabe has ironically conceded. Speaking at a Zanu PF rally held on Friday at Chipadze Stadium in Bindura, Mugabe said the country was importing tonnes of the staple maize grain…

HARARE – President of the Chiefs’ Council Fortune Charumbira has stirred a storm after declaring that chiefs will back President Robert Mugabe to the hilt. Charumbira told the Zanu PF provincial coordinating meeting in Masvingo on Sunday that traditional leaders were rallying behind Mugabe, remarks that legal experts said were a blatant violation of the…

HARARE – An Epworth step-father has been jailed for one year for malicious punishment of a child after authorities say he forced the toddler to strip naked and hanged her on a plank. Twenty-one-year-old Cecil Matare, 20, was jailed on Monday by Harare magistrate Tendai Mahwe on two counts of ill-treatment of a child. He…

MACHEKE – Adolescents are driving new HIV infections, the National Aids Council (Nac) has warned. Nac monitoring and evaluation director Amon Mpofu told journalists at an HIV and Aids intervention workshop yesterday that young people, particularly adolescent commercial sex workers, needed particular attention as the country battles the epidemic. “New infections are being driven by…