HARARE – Zimbabwe hopes to ramp up gold production to 50 tonnes and rake in $1,8 billion in revenue by 2020, as the country moves closer to being re-admitted into the London Bullion Market Association (LBMA). The country, which was disqualified from LBMA in 2008 due to successive declines in gold production, could be readmitted…
HARARE – As Zanu PF’s much-hyped million-man march gets underway today, long-suffering Zimbabweans say the demonstrating party members would best use the opportunity by telling President Robert Mugabe to step down, rather than massage the increasingly frail nonagenarian’s ego. The controversial demonstration, a brainchild of the former liberation movement’s youth league aligned to the party’s…
HARARE – Zanu PF will today literally shut down the capital city as hordes of its supporters engage in a controversial “one million-man march” that will see them congregating at the so-called Robert Mugabe Square near the Harare Show Grounds. While today is Africa Day and therefore a public holiday, residents of Harare will be…
HARARE – War veterans linked to embattled Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa have hijacked today’s Zanu PF youth league “million-man march” announcing yesterday that they would not only march but direct the event. Despite several attempts by the governing party’s youths to explain that the march was in support of President Robert Mugabe, a faction of…
HARARE – Embattled Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa is behind the latest spate of secret rallies that are being held by a group of disenchanted war veterans, the Daily News has learnt. One of the key conveners of the meetings, Jimayi Muduvuri, who has been for long associated with first lady Grace Mugabe, told this paper…
HARARE – A youth movement under the #Tajamuka has vowed to protest on the streets of Zimbabwe everyday until President Robert Mugabe steps down from power. The group, led by Zimbabwe Informal Sector Organisation chairperson Promise Mkwananzi, said they will not be waylaid by the failed Zanu PF leader anymore. At a gathering in Harare…
HARARE – Zimbabwe is experiencing yet another shortage of the BCG vaccine meant to protect new-born babies from contracting Tuberculosis (TB), a snap survey conducted by the Daily News has revealed. This has put thousands of babies born in the past two months at risk of contracting the disease, which is among the six infant killer…
HARARE – While we support freedom of association, assembly and the right to demonstrate, we are still to fully comprehend how the Zanu PF one million-man march will solve the myriad of problems Zimbabweans face today. Just in case we are accused by some overexcited loonies paid to propagate pro-Zanu PF propaganda of being an…
HARARE – Mbare-born comedian Alfred the Alleycat has been selected to feature on Kevin Hart’s show on Comedy Central called “Funny is Funny.” The former Prince Edward student, who has been performing in comedy circles in Dallas, Texas for the past decade, will participate in the “Funny is Funny” show on Wednesday night in Houston. Alfred…
HARARE – All eyes will be on President Robert Mugabe’s warring Zanu PF, as the party mounts its so-called million-man march in Harare on Wednesday — which supporters of embattled Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa see as targeted at the Midlands godfather. After the MDC’s massive show of force last month, when former prime minister Morgan…
