HARARE – Veteran industrialist Anthony Mandiwanza says Zimbabwe must adopt the South African rand as its official currency to help ease the current cash crisis and improve the manufacturing sector’s competitiveness. This comes as the country, which adopted a multi-currency system in 2009 dominated by the United States dollar to replace the Zimbabwean dollar rendered…
EDITOR — The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) chairperson, Justice Rita Makarau remains a compromised person as she remains holding another critical position as the secretary of the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) putting doubt on her impartiality in ensuring that the next elections in Zimbabwe are credible. As Zimbabweans push for new electoral reforms ahead of…
HARARE – The country’s main opposition, former prime minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC, has predicted that Zimbabwe will go for its next national elections well before 2018 as the prevailing dire economic situation in the country can now only be dealt with through the ballot. Speaking at a lively Daily News discussion forum in Harare yesterday,…
HARARE – The government appears determined to deal ruthlessly with Harare mayor Bernard Manyenyeni, after he was detained at Avondale Police Station yesterday, after being picked up by members of the Zimbabwe Anti Corruption Commission (ZACC) immediately after the courts had ordered his reinstatement to his position. High Court judge Lavender Makoni not only reinstated…
HARARE – Tendai Biti’s opposition PDP has described as “crass” Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko’s justification of his continued stay in the Presidential Suite of the plushy Rainbow Towers Hotel by suggesting no tax dollars are being lost because he is staying in a hotel owned by the government. Mphoko has been staying at Rainbow Towers…
HARARE – Kuwadzana East Member of Parliament Nelson Chamisa came close to being assaulted by his colleague — John Holder — following an altercation prompted by an alleged “you are illiterate’’ jibe made during yesterday’s debate. Zvishavane-Ngezi legislator John Holder charged at Nelson Chamisa following what the youthful MP claimed could have been a misinterpreted…
HARARE – Zanu PF politburo member Kudzai Chipanga’s failure to appear in court as a star witness has caused Godfrey Tsenengamu, 33, Godwin Gomwe, 37, and Vengai Musengi, 36,’s case to be struck off the roll. The trio were being charged with inciting public violence and provoking President Robert Mugabe’s wife Grace. The trio had…
HARARE – Government has said it is engaging several churches that raised concerns against the national pledge, following a Constitutional Court (Con-Court) application challenging its recitation in schools. The new curriculum compels children to salute the national flag and recite a pledge of patriotism. In the Con-Court application, Mathew Sogolani of Epworth is challenging Primary…
HARARE – Human rights violations against opposition supporters are rising sharply ahead of the 2018 elections, Zimbabwe Democracy Institute (ZDI) think-tank warned yesterday. “The nature of human rights abuses as recorded in the cases range from harassment and intimidation, arbitrary eviction, torture, degrading and inhumane treatment, deprivation of socio-economic rights such as education and health,…
HARARE – It is almost unbelievable to think that it is now five years since the Daily News was relaunched, after the government of President Robert Mugabe unjustly and violently shut down the country’s leading newspaper in September 2003, for the crime of telling the Zimbabwean story like it is, without fear or favour. As…
