HARARE – On September 7, 2016, President Robert Mugabe had Local Government minister Saviour Kasukuwere hanging by the skin of his teeth after he confronted him on allegations of selling land meant for Zanu PF youths’ residential stands to PHD ministries founder Walter Magaya. The development left Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s allies who view Kasukuwere…
HARARE – Organisations representing women have come under the cosh over their silence on issues affecting women, who of late have been on the receiving end of political violence and police brutality. While women’s groups in the country have often harped and made noise on events taking place in other countries such as Nigeria, they…
HARARE – Investigating officers handling an externalisation case involving former BancABC managing director Hashmon Matemera are set to travel to Sierra Leone and Tanzania as the probe on how $300 000 000 was taken out of the country rages on. This was said by prosecutor Sabastian Mutizirwa when Matemera appeared before Harare magistrate Bianca Makwande…
BULAWAYO – Opposition figures have thrown their weight behind MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai saying he has the credentials to lead the envisaged grand coalition that observers say could end Zanu PF’s near four decade rule. Speaker after speaker spoke glowingly of the former trade unionist during celebrations to mark the MDC’s 17th anniversary. Fellow opposition…
HARARE – As Zimbabweans yesterday commemorated International Day of Non-Violence meant to endorse a United Nations General Assembly resolution on “the principle of non-violence and the desire to secure a culture of peace, tolerance, understanding and non-violence”, the country finds itself engulfed in the throngs of abductions, kidnappings, police brutality and intra-party violence. Zimbabwe Peace…
BULAWAYO – A fired-up opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, raised the political stakes yesterday when he bluntly told President Robert Mugabe to heed the growing calls for him to quit power now peacefully, to save Zimbabwe and to avoid the risk of being removed from office violently. Addressing thousands of MDC supporters in the City of…
HARARE – War veterans have made sensational claims that Zanu PF young Turks who go by the moniker Generation 40 (G40) are behind the recent spate of violence around the country which saw a former diplomat and three other officials belonging to the fledgling Zimbabwe People First (ZPF) being savaged by mobs in Guruve last…
HARARE – Zimbabwe Divine Destiny (ZDD) leader Ancelimo Magaya has urged more churches to rise and speak against violence, torture and police brutality which they allege is being perpetrated by the President Robert Mugabe-led government. Speaking at a prayer meeting held at the Dutch Reformed Church in Harare yesterday, Magaya said the Church must identify…
HARARE – Despite their husband currently serving a 40-year jail term, the 11 wives of Independent End Time Message founder Robert Martin Gumbura, say they will hang on as a sign of love to the incarcerated clergyman. In an interview with the Daily News on Sunday, Gumbura’s second wife Queen Bunga, who acts as the women’s…
HARARE – He might have dodged bullets during the war of independence in the 1970s and escaped enemy wrath — but retired brigadier general and former diplomat Agrippah Mutambara was last Sunday caught between the proverbial hard place and a rock — as Zanu PF youths aimed missiles at him while he struggled to swim….
