HARARE – Zanu PF youth league leader, Kudzanai Chipanga, made a sensational proposition yesterday that is guaranteed to set tongues wagging within the warring ruling party, saying President Robert Mugabe should only be succeeded by someone who carries the same surname as the country’s long-ruling leader. Speaking to the Daily News in an exclusive interview…
HARARE – THE ruling Zanu PF party is divided over President Robert Mugabe’s succession, a situation that is now affecting government business amid threats of war from the warring factions if their preferred candidates to take over from the soon-to-be 93-year-old leader are sidelined. Our senior writer Mugove Tafirenyika (Q) caught up with Zanu PF…
HARARE – MDC vice president Thokozani Khupe might have delivered a knock-out blow to the party’s former secretary-general Welshman Ncube when yesterday she publicly declared there was no need for the largest opposition party to have coalition partners in Bulawayo province. This comes as there are growing suspicions within the MDC that some senior party…
HARARE – House of Assembly speaker Jacob Mudenda’s son, Donald Makanze Mudenda, is facing jail after he reportedly failed to pay a $22 000 debt, which includes rent arrears and legal costs. This comes after the complainant, Mark Lorenco — through his lawyers from Mapendere and Partners Legal Practitioners — applied for Donald’s civil imprisonment….
HARARE – Death row inmates will have to wait longer before knowing their fate after the Constitutional Court (Con-Court) on Wednesday struck off the roll their case in which they sought abolishment of capital punishment. The two applicants, Farai Lawrence and Wisdom Gochera, through their attorney, Tendai Biti, are challenging their death sentences. The condemned…
BULAWAYO – MDC vice president, Thokozani Khupe, has joined the loudening chorus by opposition and civil society groups who are calling for a boycott of President Robert Mugabe’s 93rd birthday celebrations in Matobo. The bash, organised by the 21st February Movement, will be hosted by Matabeleland South Province at the Rhodes Estate Preparatory School (Reps)…
HARARE – Former State Procurement Board (SPB) chairperson, Charles Kuwaza, could be arrested after legislators from across the political divide called for the instigation of contempt of Parliament charges against him. Ruling Zanu PF and opposition MDC MPs yesterday united in calling for contempt of Parliament proceedings against Kuwaza, who did not turn up to…
HARARE – The issue of equal pay for women in our local sport should be addressed as soon as possible for so many reasons but most importantly — to become truly all inclusive. Parliamentarians last week rightly sought government answers when they took Sports minister Makhosini Hlongwane to task over the matter as they reviewed…
HARARE – Zimbabwe is planning to export over 800 000 tonnes of chrome this year, following the country’s move to re-distribute land previously held by miners. Mines minister Walter Chidakwa yesterday said government was moving to re-allocate 21 170 hectares (ha) of land that once belonged to the country’s biggest chrome producer, Zimasco, to new…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s leading mobile telecommunications company, Econet, has set up a facility to allow local shareholders to participate in its $130 million rights issue, with the assistance of the central bank. This was after the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) indefinitely postponed the company’s extraordinary general meeting, which is slated for today (Friday), to allow…
