HARARE – Battle lines have been drawn in the fractured MDC with factions lining up thugs to settle the leadership contest even as opposition party leader Morgan Tsvangirai is still to be buried, the Daily News on Sunday can report. The MDC, thrown into mourning following Tsvangirai’s death on Wednesday last week, is sharply divided…
HARARE – University of Zimbabwe (UZ) vice chancellor (VC) Levi Nyagura was yesterday freed on $200 bail following his arrest on Friday night. He is being charged with criminal abuse of office after he allegedly unprocedurally conferred a doctorate degree to former first lady Grace Mugabe. On Friday, Nyagura — who will be back in…
HARARE – Mabvuku-Tafara legislator James Maridadi has called for the demolition of Long Cheng Plaza — a shopping mall situated in Belvedere, Harare — saying its existence disturbs the natural ecosystem of the capital city’s water supply. The mall was built by a Chinese company at an estimated cost of over $200 million on a…
HARARE – A bitter family feud over Morgan Tsvangirai’s widow – Elizabeth – accompanying her husband’s body into the One Commando Barracks yesterday forced government to step in and take charge of the situation, triggering protests from the late opposition MDC leader’s supporters. Read full story in today’s paper. [GoogleAd]
HARARE – MDC vice president Thokozani Khupe yesterday poured scorn on the party’s national council’s decision to name Nelson Chamisa as successor to Morgan Tsvangirai. Khupe broke her silence for the first time since she publicly opposed Tsvangirai’s plan for an opposition Alliance to take on Emmerson Mnangagwa at the forthcoming polls. Tsvangirai’s longest serving…
HARARE – The late Morgan Tsvangirai’s body will be flown home tonight from South Africa for burial in Buhera on Monday. He will be buried at the Tsvangirai family graveyard in Humanikwa Village, alongside his late first wife, Susan Tsvangirai. This is after government denied him hero status and settled for a State-assisted funeral. A…
HARARE – Woes continue to mount for ex-Cabinet minister Ignatius Chombo after he was dragged to court on fresh corruption charges yesterday. Chombo is facing a slew of charges relating to some of the transactions made during his tenure as Local Government minister. The State insists millions of dollars were misappropriated, as a result of…
HARARE – Hundreds of women demonstrated in Harare yesterday to demand that the government hands out free sanitary products to those in need, the same way it does condoms. They said women should have the same rights as men who have free access to condoms. The “red stain free sanitary wear march” was organised by…
HARARE – Desperate Zimbabwean students on the presidential scholarship programme, faced with rising costs, are turning to prostitution, gambling and other dangerous pursuits to fund their studies, Parliament has been told. With part-time jobs scarce and the cost of living being squeezed with rising prices, MDC MP for Harare West Jessie Majome said young Zimbabwean…
HARARE – Morgan Tsvangirai’s ex-wife Locadia Karimatsenga paid her last respects to the late former prime minister and leader of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party on Thursday. Clad in black, Locadia — who is now an apostle at the Nation of Glory Ministries in South Africa — described Tsvangirai’s death as a…
