HARARE – Finance minister Tendai Biti says Zanu PF’s rejection of a draft constitution authored jointly by coalition partners has put government planning into disarray. In an interview with the Daily News, Biti said he had set aside cash for a constitutional referendum in his Mid-Term Budget Statement but the about-turn made by Zanu PF…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s Depositors Protection Committee has implored Finance minister Tendai Biti to pressure commercial banks to compensate depositors who lost their money in the switch-over from the Zimbabwe dollar to a multi-currency regime. Vusi Bvuma, president of the Depositors Protection Committee told members of Parliament’s Budget, Finance and Investment Promotion portfolio committee, on Thursday…
HARARE – They have drawn the awe of a nation desperate for diversion in the face of biting economic and political problems. Their erotic pole dancing and strip tease routines have kept pubs packed countrywide. But Bev and Zoey, Zimbabwe’s undisputed club dance queens have also ignited fierce public debate over a profession that is…
HARARE – Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC has resolved to hold primary elections in December, but sitting MPs will have to be confirmed by their constituents. MDC spokesperson Douglas Mwonzora told the Daily News after a meeting of the party’s standing committee: “We are preparing for primary elections and we are going to confirm the…
HARARE – Unlike President Robert Mugabe who has taken his traditional annual leave in the face of pressing government and party programmes, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai says he is not holidaying as he gears for a decisive election in the year ahead. His top aide, Alex Magaisa yesterday said the MDC leader is cutting short…
HARARE – Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC this week launches its election game plan in Bulawayo as it holds its 13th anniversary, the last before polls that will be held next year. At the conference, Tsvangirai is expected to address reports of divisions, corruption and reported declining support. In an interview, party spokesperson Douglas Mwonzora…
BULAWAYO – Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and Industry minister Welshman Ncube’s MDC have exchanged harsh words, blaming each other for the 2005 party split. Economic adviser for the Tsvangirai-led MDC and Bulawayo South MP, Eddie Cross blamed Ncube for the split, saying the party could still be united had it not been for the latter’s…
HARARE – Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai says Zimbabwe’s independence did not come with basic freedoms as generally propagated. “We still have a huge deficit when it comes to respect for human dignity and human rights because we take for granted the people’s basic freedoms of assembly, speech and association,” Tsvangirai said in his Independence Day…
HARARE – PrimeMinister Morgan Tsvangirai says Zimbabwe’s “struggle for change has reached a point of no return”, although military generals remain a threat. He told a bumper crowd estimated at more than 20 000 in Bulawayo yesterday that President Robert Mugabe and his Zanu PF party would fall in a few months. Smarting from damaging…
HARARE – Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai yesterday vowed to legally challenge President Robert Mugabe’s unilateral proclamation of July 31 as the poll date. Tsvangirai told a news conference yesterday that he was going to take up the matter with regional leaders at the special Southern Africa Development Community (Sadc) summit in Maputo on Saturday. “I…
