Blessings Mashaya SENIOR STAFF WRITER mashayab@dailynews.co.zw FORMER Cabinet minister and liberation struggle stalwart, Rugare Gumbo, fears that President Emmerson Mnangagwa is being sabotaged by his senior Zanu PF colleagues as he toils to fix the country’s myriad challenges. Gumbo — who was controversially fired from the ruling party in the run-up to Zanu PF’s sham…
Mugove Tafirenyika SENIOR STAFF WRITER tafirenyikam@dailynews.co.zw THE country’s power crisis is worsening, with Zesa announcing yesterday its implementation of load shedding schedules lasting nearly 10 hours a day, the Daily News reports. The under pressure power utility said the increased power cuts had been caused by continuing breakdowns at two of its creaky electricity generation…
Blessings Mashaya SENIOR STAFF WRITER mashayab@dailynews.co.zw THE GOVERNMENT has issued a stern warning to recalled MDC legislators who are refusing to return vehicles they got under parliament’s car loan scheme. Thokozani Khupe, who was declared the legitimate MDC acting president by the Supreme Court in April, has recalled 21 legislators believed to be rallying behind…
Blessings Mashaya SENIOR STAFF WRITER mashayab@dailynews.co.zw THE MDC Alliance has slammed the government’s plans to fast-track the Cyber Bill, which will punish those deemed to have abused social media or peddled falsehoods against the State and citizens once it becomes law. This comes against the backdrop of government plans to also introduce the Patriotic…
WITH ZANU PF continuing to reel from its long-standing demons of factionalism and tribalism, its national political commissar Victor Matemadanda has warned that the future of the party is on the line if its bigwigs don’t stop their destructive politicking, the Daily News On Sunday reports. Addressing Zanu PF structures in Harare last week, the…
THE ZIMBABWE government yesterday came out guns blazing, dismissing a statement made by western countries condemning alleged gross human rights violations saying they are being misled by the country’s detractors. This comes after the heads of mission of Canada, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States of America said President…
RIGHTS groups have bemoaned government’s failure to end the strike by nurses and doctors at a time when Zimbabwe is struggling with the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic. Zimbabwean healthcare workers went on strike over poor wages and the lack of personal protective equipment (PPE) in early July, a situation the Human Rights NGO Forum (the Forum)…
AT LEAST 65 people have been arrested in Mazowe for destroying artefacts belonging to Mbuya Nehanda, the police have said. Mbuya Nehanda, also known as Nehanda Charwe Nyakasikana, was one of the spiritual leaders of the Shona during the 1896-97 first Chimurenga war. She was convicted without trial and was executed in 1898. National police…
STANBIC Bank Zimbabwe has rebounded from a $624 million loss posted for the half year last year to post an impressive $607,2 million inflation adjusted profit after tax for the half year ending June 2020. The bank, a subsidiary of Standard Bank Group of South Africa, attributed the performance to an improvement in its non-funded…
Blessings Mashaya SENIOR STAFF WRITER mashayab@dailynews.co.zw AMID rising tensions in the country, authorities plan to fast-track the Cyber Bill which will punish those deemed to have abused social media or peddled falsehoods against the State and citizens once it becomes law. In addition, the government will also soon introduce the Patriotic Act in Parliament…
