HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government on Sunday came to the rescue of ailing MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai when it deployed armed police guards to stave off the former prime minister’s alleged relatives who had wanted to raid his Highlands home of household property. The visit to Tsvangirai’s residence by his relatives comes as they…
HARARE – Education sector stakeholders have called for the immediate resignation of Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) management after the shameful leakage of a November 2017 English Language examination paper, with authorities forcing candidates to rewrite the exam. This comes as despite the outrage, Zimsec yesterday insisted it was forging ahead with the re-writing of…
HARARE – The British government through the Department of International Development (DFID) has extended a 21,5 million pound grant to Zimbabwe to capacitate the country’s most vulnerable districts. The grant which is under Zimbabwe Resilience Building Fund (ZRBF) will stretch to 2021 and seeks to improve the well-being of vulnerable rural communities through programmes that…
HARARE – Women’s wings in political parties could soon be rendered irrelevant if they do not use them to their advantage, a Research and Advocacy Unit (RAU) report contends. The report released on Tuesday titled “Women’s wings in Zimbabwe in 2017: Are they necessary” indicated that while women’s wings have been present in modern politics…
HARARE – The Negomo Chieftainship wrangle has taken a radical twist with the incumbent, Luscious Chitsinde dragging claimant to the throne David Gweshe to his community court on allegations that he was in an incestuous marriage. According to the summons dated January 1, 2018, Chitsinde ordered Gweshe to appear at the community court to answer…
MUTARE – A memorial service for the late prominent opposition couple — Roy and Heather Bennett, who died in a helicopter crash in the US state of New Mexico last month will be held in Chimanimani today. The event is expected to be graced by senior opposition figures, local traditional leaders and the community. Former…
HARARE – The wife of ailing MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai is being denied access to visit him in a Johannesburg hospital where the 65-year-old opposition leader is receiving medical treatment, his spokesperson has confirmed. The Daily News can exclusively reveal that Tsvangirai’s family members are refusing to allow Tsvangirai’s wife, Elizabeth, to see him at…
HARARE – Rights group, the Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum — has dragged President Emmerson Mnangagwa to court to force him to appoint a substantive chairperson of the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) — in a move which coincides with calls for the Zanu PF leader to address the Gukurahundi atrocities. This comes as…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s largest financial services group by asset base, CBZ Holdings, has begun the hunt for a new chief executive to replace Never Nyemudzo who retired on December 31, 2017. Nyemudzo, who retired to “pursue personal interests” after leading the institution for only three years, was replaced by CBZ Bank managing director Peter Zimunya…
HARARE – The ugly infighting engulfing the MDC, was further exposed yesterday when Morgan Tsvangirai’s spokesperson Luke Tamborinyoka, scrambled to issue a statement reiterating that he was still in charge of the indisposed former prime minister’s affairs as confusion surrounded the party’s acting president position. At a hastily-arranged press conference, Tamborinyoka told journalists that he…
