HARARE – The country’s disjointed opposition parties should draw lessons from the recently-held Mwenezi by-elections that Zanu PF will not reform itself out of power, but will instead push for elections under conditions that guarantee its victory. While the main opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) led by Morgan Tsvangirai, boycotted the polls…
HARARE – Zimbabwe is believed to have lost over $2,5 billion in capital flights and trade misinvoicing between 2008 and 2013 due to the country’s controversial empowerment laws, a local think-tank has said. A latest report by the Zimbabwe Economic Policy Analysis and Research Unit (Zeparu) revealed that unrecorded capital outflows occur through trade with…
HARARE – Flamboyant businessman Philip Chiyangwa has been compensated by government for the loss of his 587-hectare Stoneridge farm after he was given two pieces of land in Harare’s Manyame suburb and a portion of the annexed property. This effectively puts to rest a seven-year saga and dispute, which started when President Robert Mugabe’s administration…
HARARE – Bullish opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, has vowed to finish off President Robert Mugabe and his warring ruling Zanu PF in next year’s make-or-break national elections — adding that he stands ready to lead the planned grand coalition. Speaking in an exclusive interview with the Daily News yesterday, the fit again former prime minister…
HARARE – Former Zanu PF women’s league bigwigs, Eunice Sandi Moyo and Sarah Mahoka, have thrown down the gauntlet at powerful First Lady Grace Mugabe to provide the evidence that shows that the duo misappropriated funds donated to the wing by well-wishers. Until the two women’s fall from grace, Mahoka — who is famed for…
HARARE – Hard-pressed President Robert Mugabe’s government is issuing Treasury Bills (TBs) in a desperate move to raise money to pay restive civil servants’ 2016 bonuses, Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa told the National Assembly last week. This comes as government buckled under pressure from the agitated public workers, who turned down government’s residential stands among…
HARARE – The decision by President Robert Mugabe’s stone-broke government to implement a five percent health levy on airtime and mobile data will hit hard long-suffering ordinary Zimbabweans who are reeling from multiple effects of a dying economy, experts say. This comes as two weeks ago, government enacted the new tax into law through the…
HARARE – Jailed Independent End Time Message founder Robert Martin Gumbura’s fresh rape charge has been dropped. Had he been convicted, his current 40-year jail term — imposed in 2013 over four counts of rape — could have been lengthened. He was removed from remand on the fresh rape charge yesterday that emerged following his…
HARARE – Zanu PF has warned opposition parties that they will face a rout of epic proportions in the much-anticipated watershed elections next year in which they are expected to participate as a coalition. Speaking to the Daily News after retaining the Mwenezi East constituency at the weekend, fit-again Zanu PF spokesperson, Simon Khaya Moyo…
JOHANNESBURG – While embattled South Africa President Jacob Zuma came under increased pressure to step down this week, his eldest son, Edward, was fighting to become chairperson of the Msholozi branch in KwaNxamalala Village in Nkandla. But his bid was thwarted after the general meeting last Sunday to elect a new branch leadership came to…
