HARARE – Zanu PF Secretary for youth affairs Pupurai Togarepi says the ruling party’s youths have enduring respect for former President Robert Mugabe and all the people who took part in the country’s protracted war of liberation. Togarepi, who was reinstated as the ruling party’s secretary for youth affairs by President Emmerson Mnangagwa after he…
HARARE – The Southern African Development Community (Sadc) has endorsed Zimbabwe’s Cosmas Zavazava who is vying for an International Telecommunications Union top post. The 57-year-old Zimbabwean, who is currently chief of department for projects and knowledge management in the Telecommunication Development Bureau of ITU, will battle it out with other candidates for the ITU director…
HARARE – Vice President Kembo Mohadi is currently undergoing treatment for an undisclosed ailment in South Africa, the Daily News has heard. The 68-year-old, who missed Wednesday’s Independence Day celebrations at the National Sports Stadium in Harare, had been scheduled to give oral evidence before the Mines and Energy Portfolio Committee yesterday. Committee chairperson Temba…
HARARE – There is a joke doing rounds on social media that nurses — earning a basic monthly salary less than $300 — go on strike and they are fired, but on the other hand, deputy Finance minister Terrence Mukupe beats up his subordinate in protest over a $910 allowance for a three-day trip to South…
HARARE – The death of MDC president Morgan Tsvangirai in February this year could not have come at a worse time as the country prepared for the crunch 2018 general elections. The MDC Alliance had chosen him as their presidential candidate and his passing on created a yawning gap that could turn out to be…
JOHANNESBURG – South African civil rights organisation AfriForum said yesterday it was preparing to challenge the diplomatic immunity that was granted to former Zimbabwean first lady Grace Mugabe. The organisation announced this when it gave updates on matters relating to its private prosecution programme. “We . . . started with a process to set aside…
HARARE – The Zanu PF politburo meets today to deal with the contentious issue of candidate selection for primary elections ahead of the eagerly-awaited harmonised polls, amid revelations that the party’s elections commission failed to contain members’ antagonism. The ruling party is currently burning with senior party officials battling to calm down angry members who…
HARARE – Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has rung another shake-up, with the law enforcement agency transferring 41 senior police officers and 19 juniors. The move is one in many redeployments effected in the force since the military-led Operation Restore Legacy, which saw former president Robert Mugabe’s ouster and retirement of ex-ZRP commissioner general Augustine Chihuri….
HARARE – A theft-accused Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) officer openly told a court that spot fines that he collected from motorists during highway patrols were pocketed by their bosses instead of going to State coffers. William Katayi, 37, a sergeant, made the revelations during his appearance before Harare magistrate Joy Chikodzore. He is jointly charged…
HARARE – MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has appealed to the military — which played a key role in the ouster of former president Robert Mugabe last November — to withdraw from villages in order to ensure free and credible elections. This comes amid reports that the army has deployed over 2 000 soldiers into rural…
