HARARE – The Zanu PF faction rallying behind Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s mooted presidential aspirations, which has for months been on the receiving end of a ruthless pummelling from its ruling party foes, is said to have wrestled back the initiative in the former liberation movement’s seemingly unstoppable factional and succession wars. Well-placed sources who spoke…
HARARE – Serious disagreements have hit the National Electoral Reform Agenda (Nera), a grouping of 18 political parties that have been agitating for electoral reforms — over strategies and handling of sensitive information which led to cancellation of yesterday’s demonstrations that had been organised in Chitungwiza. Nera had announced this week, through its legal affairs…
HARARE – Jailed former Zanu PF legislator Munyaradzi Kereke has applied for bail pending appeal. The convicted rapist submitted that he would not flee jurisdiction as he had no means to live outside Zimbabwe since his businesses and family are all in the country. He is currently serving a 10-year jail sentence after he was…
HARARE – Residents in Chipinge and surrounding areas were on Thursday night awoken by tremors after an earthquake measuring 5.6 on the Richter scale hit Mozambique. The earthquake, according to US Geological Survey (USGS), occurred at a depth of 10km at 22hrs 06min and 12 seconds. The location of the epicentre, with respect to nearby…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s mass drug administration (MDA) programme to rid the country of elephantiasis, bilharzia and intestinal worms has seen many people suffer from after effects after taking the medication without eating proper meals, the Daily News has learnt. The most affected are those hit by hunger in most drought-stricken areas where food is limited,…
HARARE – Radical women’s rights pressure group, Justice for Women, has threatened to demonstrate stark naked to register displeasure at the way women are “ill-treated” by police. There have been howls of protests from across the country after women were brutally tortured, allegedly by the police while in prison. Addressing the media in Harare on…
HARARE – Africa will only be able to feed 13 percent of its two billion-plus population in 2050, if governments such as Zimbabwe do not take measures to address climate change, experts warned. Currently, at least a third of Zimbabwe’s 14 million population faces hunger due to the devastating effects of the El Nino-induced drought….
HARARE – Political activist Sylvanos Mudzvova was yesterday discharged from a local hospital where he was receiving treatment after he was reportedly abducted and tortured by unknown assailants last Tuesday. Mudzvova — who was seized at gun point from his home — said he will seek medical attention in South Africa after doctors failed to…
HARARE – Zimbabwe, South Africa and Namibia will argue for the right to sell ivory at an international wildlife conference that starts today in Johannesburg. They are opposed by about 30 African countries that want to tighten an international ban on the ivory trade. China, the world’s main ivory consumer, says it plans to close…
HARARE – Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko has been accused of “blowing hot and cold” and changing goal posts in his staggering $50 million defamation claim against Associated Newspapers of Zimbabwe (ANZ) — the publishers of the Daily News, the Daily News on Sunday and the Weekend Post. Making submissions before High Court judge Lavender Makoni…
