THE country’s worsening currency and prices crisis is becoming increasingly unbearable for many hard-pressed consumers and businesses alike. This comes as the Zimbabwe dollar is continuing to slump on both the parallel and official markets — causing the prices of basic goods in the country to shoot up regularly in response. Yesterday, the hapless domestic…
POLICE have launched a manhunt for an armed individual who posted a chilling video on social media threatening to kill President Emmerson Mnangagwa. The brazen suspect also threatened to harm other senior government officials during his rant. National police spokesperson, Paul Nyathi, yesterday implored all those with information about the suspect to cooperate with law…
THE omens are not looking good for the new opposition movement that Nelson Chamisa is said to be planning. This comes as many of Chamisa’s erstwhile Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) allies are already at each other’s throats over the mooted new party, as their godfather seemingly continues with his controversial strategic ambiguity approach to…
THE secretary general of South Africa’s governing African National Congress (ANC), Fikile Mbalula, made a surprise visit to Harare last week, where he met his Zanu PF counterpart, Obert Mpofu, and other top ruling party officials. This comes as the ANC is facing a tough general election mid this year, with many polls and political…
HARD-PRESSED Zimbabweans are praying that Treasury and the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) will work together with urgency to calm down runaway prices and the slumping local currency. This comes after Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube reiterated during a Zoom press conference yesterday that authorities were planning to introduce new policy measures to stabilise the country’s…
MEMBERS of the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) faction that remains loyal to former party leader Nelson Chamisa are now at each other’s throats. This comes as the faction remains at sixes and sevens over whether they should withdraw from Parliament — and who should lead them in the august House should they stay engaged…
GOVERNMENT says it fully backs efforts by lawmakers to engage the United States (US) government in a bid to persuade the North Americans to remove economic sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe over 20 years ago. Speaking in the National Assembly last week, Justice deputy minister Nobert Mazungunye said the government was in support of the motion…
CONSUMERS, unions and business say it is now imperative that authorities convene an urgent all-stakeholders’ meeting to deal with the country’s prices emergency. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, they warned that the current situation could not be allowed to continue if the crisis was not to degenerate into an even bigger national calamity. This…
ZANU PF won 20 out of 23 contested local council seats in last week’s by-elections, while two former Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) Harare councillors retained their seats after contesting as independent candidates. In a notice yesterday, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) chief elections officer, Utloile Silaigwana, confirmed Zanu PF won one council seat in…
ZIMBABWEANS hoping to see the opposition dislodging Zanu PF from power will have to wait much longer as there is no chance of that happening any time soon. So says notable politician, Godfrey Tsenengamu, who also asserts that former Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader, Nelson Chamisa, will forever be haunted by his alleged “political…
