HARARE – Senior members in President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF are likely to be removed from the European Union (EU) sanctions list this week after the 27-member bloc endorsed the referendum which it was using to gauge democracy in the country. Last June, the EU promised to review travel bans and financial embargoes on Mugabe…
HARARE – It had all the making of a typical wedding — a priest, flowers, music and a towering white cake. Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and “wife” Elizabeth Macheka even exchanged rings, just like they do in a real wedding. Harare’s Glamis Arena was the venue of the “mock wedding” for Tsvangirai and his new…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe is expected to intervene in the Renco Mine saga today to put finality to the on-going ownership wrangle that has sucked in one of his ministers. This was said by Indenisation minister Saviour Kasukuwere when he appeared before the parliamentary portfolio committee on women and youth yesterday. Kasukuwere said the…
HARARE – An electrical glitch and a huge downpour dampened President Robert Mugabe’s peace speech at the burial of national hero and late Vice President John Nkomo yesterday. Mugabe’s speech, beamed live on State TV, was blacked out by a power outage that seemed to irritate the veteran ruler. As soon as power was restored,…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe said yesterday his Zanu PF party was ready to bury its political opponents in elections he insists will be held sometime in March next year. Addressing his party’s Central Committee yesterday, the 88-year-old Zimbabwean strongman said his party was facing easy opposition. “This is a chance we have been given…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe is sticking to his guns demanding that the draft constitution be brought before the three coalition government Principals before being tabled in Parliament. The planned new charter is expected to lay the foundation for free and fair elections after the disputed 2008 polls. Officially opening the Fifth Session of Seventh…
HARARE – An apostolic sect bishop who claims to have received a prophecy about President Robert Mugabe winning the next election has gone a gear up in a bootlicking campaign which has left many Christians embarrassed. Mugabe is king and people like Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai who are trying to oust him through a peaceful…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF is embarking on a more sophisticated and multi-pronged approach to cover its terror tactics in order to regain political legitimacy, a leading analyst has said. Phillan Zamchiya, outgoing regional coordinator for Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition, said in a new report that the reign of terror unleashed by Zanu…
HARARE – Former Finance minister and Zanu PF politburo member Simba Makoni’s political project Mavambo/Kusile/Dawn (MKD) is falling apart, the Daily News can reveal. Formed by a group of disgruntled Zanu PF leaders on the eve of the March 2008 elections and fronted by Makoni, MKD garnered about eight percent of the presidential vote. Months…
HARARE – Three decades of repression and poverty have left Zimbabweans in a state of fear and the situation is unlikely to change in the near future, opposition politician Simba Makoni has said. In a New Year message released yesterday, Makoni said indications are that 2013 will bring more hardships to ordinary Zimbabweans who, unlike…
