October 2016

HARARE – Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai says President Robert Mugabe’s stunning fallout with war veterans earlier this year is a potential game changer in Zimbabwe’s tortured politics which could see the nonagenarian and his warring Zanu PF being turfed out of power in the eagerly-anticipated 2018 national elections. Tsvangirai’s predictions come as the country’s economy…

HARARE – Political violence in Zimbabwe has increased dramatically in 2016, with record levels of assault, abduction and torture recorded as opposition to President Robert Mugabe’s 36-year rule escalates. About 654 cases of political violence were recorded by a local non-governmental organisation, the Counselling Services Unit (CSU), as of October 21, compared to 476 cases…

HARARE – Harare’s dire water crisis has led to the emergence of unscrupulous merchants who are making a killing off selling the precious liquid to desperate residents in the capital’s poor townships. This comes as water levels at the country’s major dams have receded to precarious levels with Zimbabwe’s largest dam, Kariba, said to be…

BULAWAYO – Higher Education minister Jonathan Moyo, who is already reeling from a cocktail of hotly-contested corruption charges that have been filed against him over the past few weeks, is facing a fresh onslaught from his enemies within President Robert Mugabe’s warring Zanu PF. Well-placed sources told the Daily News on Sunday yesterday that development…

HARARE – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has insisted that President Robert Mugabe’s government will not receive any fresh capital until it repays all its debts and implement key economic reforms. This was after the cash-strapped country last week cleared its 15-year-old $107,9 million arrears to the international money lender —– prompting the government to…

HARARE – The biblical  story of how David slew Goliath in an epic battle has become a staff of legends but since history has a habit of repeating itself Temba Mliswa, a mere independent candidate, rose against all odds to triumph against the giant that is Zanu PF in an election that has the opposition…