THE Daily News has been a lone voice over the past few months in highlighting the folly of the country’s opposition engaging in self-immolation, and taking counsel from dubious characters. For this fair and spot-on reporting stance, we have received ill-conceived flak from a few misguided opposition leaders and their cheerleaders — among them unprincipled “journalists” and…
AS THE vicious factional wars that are tearing apart Zimbabwe’s main opposition plumb new lows with each passing day, political analysts say the MDC may have reached the end of the road in its current incarnation, the Daily News reports. In addition, they say, both Thokozani Khupe and Nelson Chamisa,, have to take responsibility for…
HIGH Court Judge Justice Martin Makonese has thrown away an application by local activists who had sought an interdict barring President Emmerson Mnangagwa from conducting exhumation and reburials of victims of Gukurahundi atrocities of the 1980s. The applicants, who included Gukurahundi survivor Charles Thomas, Zapu and Ibhetshu LikaZulu, recently filed an urgent High Court application…
MDC Alliance Harare West legislator Joana Mamombe, has filed an urgent chamber application challenging her detention at Harare remand prison pending mental examination by government doctors. Mamombe was last Thursday placed in the custody of the superintendent at the prison by Harare regional magistrate Bianca Makwande after the State had argued that she must…
CEMENT manufacturing giant, Lafarge Cement Zimbabwe (Ltd), has recorded a strong come back from the Covid-19-induced slowdown of business operations as indicated in the company’s half-year performance results. Closing the period with a 27 percent revenue growth and a nine percent improvement in gross profit margin, the company reported a fair start to the year,…
TikTok has avoided a government-ordered block on new downloads in the US after a judge issued a temporary injunction. The video-sharing app had faced being removed from Apple’s App Store and Android’s Google Play marketplace at midnight local time in Washington DC. Existing US-based users would have been able to have continued using it. But…
FIREBRAND MDC Alliance deputy national chairperson, Job “Wiwa” Sikhala, says the struggle for a just and better Zimbabwe for all will never be derailed by the alleged persecution of individuals like him by the State. Speaking in an interview with the Daily News On Sunday yesterday, the larger-than-life Zengeza West legislator also vowed that…
CRIMINAL Investigation Department (CID) boss, Crispen Charumbira, will spend the next fortnight in remand prison following his court appearance on corruption charges yesterday. Charumbira, the national director at the CID, allegedly interfered with lawful arrests by ordering his subordinates to abort some criminal investigations. He was represented by Tabson Bvekwa and Sylvester Hashiti when he…
AFTER a careful analysis of all the factors, it is apparent there is still a long way before the local football season can start during this coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic. The 2020 domestic season should have commenced in March but it could not kick off after the government imposed a nationwide lockdown and banned all sporting…
ZIMBABWE’S cost of living, as measured by the Consumer Council of Zimbabwe (CCZ), food basket for a low income family of six, rose to $14 438 in August from $14 256 in July, representing a 1,27 percent increase. This comes as prices of basic goods and services in the country increased in August although annual…
