HARARE – Zanu PF’s deadly tribal, factional, and succession wars rose a notch higher yesterday after the government cracked down on some of Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s supporters, with police arresting former ruling party youth official Godfrey Tsenengamu over his Harare press conference on Monday. Zanu PF insiders who spoke to the Daily News said…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s deputies and staff yesterday lined up to praise and shower him with gifts in celebration of his 93rd birthday during a surprise party held at his Munhumutapa offices yesterday. Top government officials took turns to wax lyrical about the nonagenarian leader, with Vice President (VP) Emmerson Mnangagwa taking the lead…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s powerful National Electoral Reform Agenda (Nera) yesterday threatened to hold a general protest against government’s plans to hijack the acquisition of biometric voter registration (BVR) kits to be used for the 2018 elections. Under pressure from the opposition for reforms to ensure a fair poll by minimising errors and preventing accusations of…
HARARE – Thousands of rural teachers across Zimbabwe joined union-led protests yesterday against bonuses that came on top of strikes by doctors. The Amalgamated Rural Teachers’ Union of Zimbabwe (Artuz)’s strike nationwide with a main rally in rural areas, is a test of how much support the union can muster over bonus curbs they say…
HARARE – Transport minister Jorum Gumbo was yesterday grilled by legislators over the granting of a road construction contract to a Chinese company. Transport and Infrastructure parliamentary portfolio committee MPs asked whether the ministry had put in place measures to guard against being short-changed by a Chinese company that was doing the dualisation of the…
HARARE – The President Robert Mugabe who sat in front of reporters for his birthday interview appeared very different to the confident man who has lorded over Zimbabwe for the past 36 years, weathering the challenge of a robust opposition at home and loud Western pressure. Mugabe looked pale and frail in his choreographed interview…
HARARE – Tendai Biti’s People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has urged the government to declare the Cyclone Dineo-induced floods a national disaster after concerns about the ability of government to cope with the aftermath. This comes after rain and strong winds battered Matabeleland last weekend, causing damage and devastating parts of Tsholotsho where villagers have been…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe this week gave flimsy excuses on why his Zanu PF-led government has failed to create the 2,2 million jobs they promised to the electorate in the run-up to the July 2013 elections. Speaking in his traditional birthday interview, the 93-year-old leader had the temerity to tell crisis-weary Zimbabweans that after…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s once promising economy has been destroyed by President Robert Mugabe’s controversial policies, a European security think-tank has said. The European Inter-agency Security Forum (EISF) said Zimbabwe was facing an imminent crisis that will require an international humanitarian response in the near to medium-term future due to bad economic policies. “The dire economic…
HARARE – Government must come out clean on the source of the $17 million it says it has raised for the purchase of Biometric Voter Registration (BVR) kits. President Robert Mugabe’s government is so broke, hence the suspicion from several quarters when it announced that it was going it alone in the acquisition of the…
