LUSAKA – The the ruling Patriotic Front media team has described South Africa’s opposition leader Julius Malema as an imperialist’s rabid lap dog running errands for his master. In a statement made available to the media today and signed by PF’s Media Director Sunday Chanda, the ruling party said that Malema is running around because…
HARARE – Government is violating public service regulations by keeping in its employ bureaucrats who are way past their pensionable age, the Daily News can report. Civil service regulations on pensionable age and retirement, state that a member appointed on pensionable terms of service before May 1, 1992, shall have a pensionable age of 65…
HARARE – Opinion was over the weekend split on whether President Robert Mugabe and his outspoken wife, Grace, could do “a Mujuru” on Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who was the target of their acerbic tongue-lashing in Chinhoyi on Saturday. Ahead of the ruling party’s congress in 2014, Mugabe and his wife went on a warpath…
HARARE – MDC leader, Morgan Tsvangirai has missed his self-imposed July 31 (today) deadline for the formation of a grand coalition of opposition political parties that is supposed to challenge Zanu PF in next year’s elections. Although MDC spokesperson Obert Gutu could not shed light on why the deadline has been missed, sources privy to…
HARARE – National Vendors Union Zimbabwe (Navuz) chairperson Sten Zvorwadza said vendors must play a leading role in the formation of the coalition. Zvorwadza who is currently in the United Kingdom mobilising people to prepare for 2018 watershed elections said opposition parties must accept the need to work together with citizens for them to win…
HARARE – Zanu PF youths have thrown the gauntlet to the ruling party bigwigs saying everyone but President Robert Mugabe will be challenged in the primary elections ahead of next year’s elections. With Mugabe the only one who has been endorsed as Zanu PF candidate for the 2018 elections — his deputies Phelekezela Mphoko and…
SIAKOBVU – Fairly abundant vegetation in Siakobvu area in Kariba — about 500km north-west of Harare deep in Mashonaland West province — does not only serve as wind break or source of cheap fuel in this part of the country but also as ‘‘ablution facilities’’ to villagers. This has seen the area which falls in…
HARARE – War veterans have threatened to take the law into their hands if police do not arrest First Lady Grace Mugabe who last called on President Robert Mugabe to name a successor. The angry former freedom fighters under the banner Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA) said they would storm the Zanu PF…
HARARE – War veterans from ZNLWVA have threatened to take the war to President Robert Mugabe if he does not resolve the thorny succession issue their way. This comes as permanent secretary in the ministry of War Veterans Walter Tapfumaneyi told the State-controlled media that Mugabe would soon meet war veterans. Matemadanda told the Daily…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe must order the arrest of suspected Zanu PF terror gangs that he recently disowned while addressing a rally in Lupane, social and political analysts contend. At the Lupane presidential youth interface rally, Mugabe said: “I hear there are groups that are moving around beating people. No, that is not our…
