THE government must come up with a legal framework under which it will be obliged to provide free menstrual products to all girls in schools and tertiary institutions, Parliament has said. This comes after the parliamentary portfolio committees of Primary and Secondary Education, Women Affairs and Tertiary Education carried out a fact-finding mission on the…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa and his two deputies, Constantino Chiwenga and Kembo Mohadi, are not focusing on politics but further improving the lives of ordinary Zimbabweans. So says presidential spokesperson, George Charamba, who adds that the country’s top leadership is treating the push for Mnangagwa to remain in office beyond 2028 as a sideshow. Speaking to…
Blessings Mashaya POLITICAL EDITOR mashayab@dailynews.co.zw TEMPERATURES continue to rise in Zanu PF over the party’s muchdebated recent resolution that urges President Emmerson Mnangagwa to remain in office until 2030. So heated have things become within the former liberation movement, that it is now threatening to cut loose all members who are opposed to the push….
Blessings Mashaya POLITICAL EDITOR mashayab@dailynews.co.zw ZANU PF leaders are escalating their push to persuade President Emmerson Mnangagwa to remain in office beyond his current second and final term, which ends in 2028. In this regard, at least five provincial party bigwigs have confirmed that they will continue to lobby Mnangagwa to accept the former liberation…
MDC infighting continues unabated with the rival factions now embroiled in a serious battle over the name of the party and as they all claim that they were left in charge of the opposition outfit by its founder, the late Morgan Tsvangirai. In papers filed at the High Court recently, the MDC led by Douglas…
AUTHORITIES need to do more to boost businesses, which would help to lift the economy — including calming prices and creating much-needed jobs — experts said yesterday. Speaking to the Daily News — the country’s most influential newspaper — the experts lamented the fact that organised business continued to be weighed down by myriad challenges,…
THE Public Service Commission (PSC) is praying for vastly improved and timeous funding from Treasury next year, to help it overcome the myriad challenges that it is facing. This comes as the government owes a staggering ZiG915 million to civil servants’ Pension Fund, ZiG321 million to the National Social Security Authority (Nssa), and ZiG291 million…
ZANU PF has now moved to forbid the pushing of the contentious 2030 slogan that calls for President Emmerson Mnangagwa to remain in office beyond 2028.The ruling party’s national political commissar, Munyaradzi Machacha, confirmed to the Daily News at the weekend that the former liberation movement had shelved the slogan with immediate effect.This comes as…
WAR veterans have warned that attempts by “mafikizolos” (Johnny-come-latelies in politics) to drive a wedge between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and VP Constantino Chiwenga will be resisted robustly. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, the newly-elected secretary general of the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA), Sam Parerenyatwa, said ex-combatants were very angry over the…
POLITICAL EDITORmashayab@dailynews.co.zw POLITICAL analysts have applauded President Emmerson Mnangagwa for the way he handled the 2030 campaign by Zanu PF’s members at the party’s annual conference in Bulawayo at the weekend. At the same time, Zanu PF bigwigs say they will continue to galvanise members of the party and Zimbabweans at large in the push…
