HARARE – The forthcoming MDC congress is critical as it will settle once and for all, the legitimacy question dogging the leadership of Nelson Chamisa, political analysts have said. [GoogleAd] Chamisa assumed the reins of the country’s main opposition party ahead of his rivals following the death of Morgan Tsvangirai — the party’s founding father — last…
HARARE – A top MDC official has sensationally claimed that party officials, especially those who will be voting in the upcoming congress are being paid large sums of money to vote out Nelson Chamisa from the party’s presidency. [GoogleAd] But Zanu PF has angrily dismissed the allegations. MDC vice president Morgen Komichi told the Daily News on…
More and more members of the security services are being arraigned before the courts for playing a major role in perpetrating blue-collar and violent crime. [GoogleAd] Analysts attribute the breakdown of discipline to the worsening economic crisis, the fractured nature of national politics and the culture of impunity by the new dispensation. Soldiers and cops’ involvement…
Nearly every municipality in Zimbabwe is grappling with a water crisis, putting lives in great danger. In January this year, Bulawayo City Council (BCC) instituted a 48-hour water rationing exercise as its water sources have gone down due to erratic rains. [GooglesAd] So severe is the situation in Bulawayo, in particular, that United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH)…
CHILDREN in broken families are suffering badly from divorce or parental break-ups. The Daily News on Sunday can report a perfect storm of worsening economic conditions and poverty is putting a squeeze on the source of income for poor single-mother families, many are once again flooding the courts seeking upward variations of their maintenance orders….
There are times when I really think we Zimbabweans are very ungrateful. All we do is moan, curse, rant, rave, and practically do anything to show our people’s President, Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa, in a bad light. This is the same man who secured an overwhelming landslide of 50,6 percent of the vote. He did not get…
One year after jubilant residents celebrated on the streets of Harare when Zimbabwe’s army removed Robert Mugabe from power, the country is in darkness. In January, after days of protests over a doubling of fuel prices, security forces launched a crackdown in which more than 12 people were killed and 600 arrested. Zimbabwe’s government also…
Why is there congestion at our public healthcare institutions? Patients take long hours before they are attended. The challenges facing referral hospitals are a direct result of existing economic circumstances. The referral system, user fees and access have put unbearable pressure on the main referral hospitals, which are Parirenyatwa, Harare, Mpilo, Chitungwiza, and United Bulawayo hospitals….
There’s nothing surprising or fundamentally new about the monetary and currency reforms that the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) introduced in the 2019 Monetary Policy Statement. [GoogleAd] I have restricted my focus to an interpretation of the monetary policy measures, unpacking the rationale and underlying policy objectives of the monetary measures, without looking at the…
HARARE – There is this story of a prominent yesteryear female radio DJ whose smothering and golden voice swept listeners for years. A lot of listeners, especially the males fell in love with her velvet voice and she usually held live phone-ins which were so romantic and teasing. [GoogleAd] But there was a paradox because few, if…
