June 2016

HARARE – Zanu PF political commissar Saviour Kasukuwere has scoffed at ex-combatants’ threats to reinstate seven provincial chairpersons suspended for fanning factionalism. War veterans resolved at their Gweru meeting that they would work to ensure the reinstatement of the seven Zanu PF provincial chairpersons Kizito Chivamba (Midlands), Ezra Ruvai Chadzamira (Masvingo), Joel Biggie Matiza (Mashonaland…

HARARE – Masvingo Zanu PF MPs have resolved to campaign against Provincial Affairs minister Shuvai Mahofa and her Psychomotor counterpart  Josiah Hungwe — both key allies of Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa — for allegedly fanning factionalism. Zanu PF chairperson for Masvingo Amasi Nenjana told the Daily News yesterday that the resolution was made by 20…

HARARE – Welshman Ncube’s opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) has demanded that Energy and Power Development minister Samuel Undenge and the entire Zesa board step down with immediate effect to save the power utility’s image and coffers. This comes as the Zanu PF Manicaland provincial chairman and the energy parastatal have put $600 million…

HARARE – Zimbabwe’s first ever Trade Information Portal (TIP) will be officially launched on June 9 by Industry and Commerce minister Mike Bimha and the head of the European Union Delegation to Zimbabwe, Ambassador Philippe Van Damme. The TIP has been conceived as a two-way highway in terms of providing key information both to Zimbabwean…

HARARE – Signatories to the National Electoral Reforms Agenda (Nera) have planned a series of demonstrations to force President Robert Mugabe to implement electoral reforms before the much-anticipated 2018 elections. Over 10 opposition political parties joined Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC to craft and sign up to the Nera in the call for a truly credible election…

HARARE – Two years after President Robert Mugabe’s government announced and signed a number of much-hyped “mega-deals” with Zimbabwe’s supposed all-weather friends China and Russia, very little is happening on the ground to suggest that the deals will take off anytime soon. Investigations by the Daily News this week also suggested that even the equally…

HARARE – Deputy Mines minister Fred Moyo has been accused of concealing a fatal accident at his mine, delaying the rescue for two months. Four illegal miners have been found dead, trapped under his Four Stampers Mine in Chegutu. [GoogleAd] Chief Ngezi, under whose jurisdiction the mine lies, told the Daily News yesterday that he…