HIGH inflation, low disposable income and unrelenting power cuts have dampened prospects for pomp and fanfare during the Easter holidays, consumers have said. Thousands of city-dwelling Zimbabweans usually travel back to their rural homes during the Easter holidays, taking gifts and food for feasts and sharing them with their families, however, this year consumers said…

THE Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) will select its parliamentary and local government candidates for the country’s upcoming national elections today. At the same time, political analysts have warned that the CCC’s chosen and “untested” method for conducting this key process could destabilise the party if this was not carefully managed. This comes as CCC…

AUTHORITIES say Harare’s relations with Washington are improving despite the recent extension of sanctions on Zimbabwe by President Joe Biden’s administration. Speaking in the Senate on Thursday, the deputy minister of Foreign Affairs, David Musabayana, said the government is happy with the signals coming from Washington. “They are warming up to us and relations between…

THE government has declined to be drawn into the court battle between opposition leader Douglas Mwonzora and the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec). This comes after Mwonzora approached the Constitutional Court last month, challenging the constitutionality of Zec’s much-debated and since gazetted delimitation report. The MDC boss cited President Emmerson Mnangagwa, Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi and…

ZANU PF members who participated in, lost and raised complaints about the recent primaries will know their fate after a meeting of the party’s politburo in Harare today. The party’s secretary for administration, Obert Mpofu, confirmed the meeting to the Daily News yesterday, adding that its deliberations would be communicated immediately after. “The politburo is…

PARLIAMENT will ask Finance minister Mthuli Ncube to issue a ministerial statement in response to global broadcaster Al Jazeera’s documentary alleging rampant money laundering and gold smuggling in the country. This comes after the news network aired the first of its four-part documentary last week, naming a number of people and institutions allegedly involved in…

THE chairperson of the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec), Priscilla Chigumba, has warded off attempts by opposition leader Douglas Mwonzora to have the forthcoming national elections delayed in the wake of the criticism levelled against the recent delimitation report. This comes after Mwonzora recently filed an application at the Constitutional Court(ConCourt) challenging the delimitation report, arguing…

WHILE the first episode of Al Jazeera’s probes into alleged rampant money laundering and gold smuggling in Zimbabwe has been hugely damaging, what has come out so far will not necessarily sway voters in this year’s crunch polls. So say independent political analysts who spoke to the Daily News On Sunday yesterday, in the wake…

BUSINESS and ordinary consumers are reeling under worsening power cuts as Zesa has in recent days enforced punishing 15-hour daily outages across the country due to low power generation. According to daily updates by the Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC), a Zesa subsidiary, the power utility on Wednesday produced 361 megawatts (MW) and 810MW yesterday against…

IT WILL be a case of the old versus the new in Zanu PF’s upcoming primaries, after the ruling party’s politburo gave the green light to all its hitherto out of favour former heavyweights to participate in the crunch internal polls. This will see many of the former party bigwigs — who include ex-Cabinet ministers…