THE bloodletting between supporters of the country’s major political parties continues unabated, blighting the run-up to this year’s crunch national elections. This comes after fresh barbaric scenes were witnessed between supporters of the ruling Zanu PF and the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) in Gokwe and Masvingo this past weekend. In the aftermath of the…

ZIMBABWEANS who have been pining for dialogue and another government of national unity (GNU) in the country ahead of this year’s crunch elections should banish these dreams as Zanu PF is now solely focused on the fast-approaching polls, political analysts say. Speaking to the Daily News On Sunday yesterday, the analysts also warned that if…

LAWMAKERS have urged the government to work harder to find long-lasting solutions to the country’s power crisis which is badly affecting both consumers and business. Speaking in the National Assembly on Thursday, Zanu PF and Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) MPs united in calling for more concerted efforts by authorities to end Zimbabwe’s brutal load-shedding.CCC…

THE police have taken delivery of 100 vehicles and another 200 are expected early this year to beef up the security sector’s operations ahead of harmonised polls, Home Affairs minister, Kazembe Kazembe has confirmed. He was responding to a question from Harare East MP Tendai Biti on what action the government was taking to improve…

PARLIAMENT will look at the possibility of enacting more electoral reforms ahead of this year’s crunch national elections when the Electoral Act Amendment Bill reaches the august House, authorities have said. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi said this would be done as part of ongoing efforts to ensure that the…

SOME Zanu PF affiliates continue to urge the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) not to apply the seat boundaries mapped in its latest delimitation report for this year’s crunch national elections, and instead use those employed in the 2018 polls. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, the leaders of the Zimbabwe Youth Action Platform (ZYAP) and…

GOING ahead with this year’s national elections without the country having implemented all requisite electoral reforms will plunge Zimbabwe into a deeper political and economic crisis, opposition leader Douglas Mwonzora said yesterday. Speaking to the Daily News, after Citizens Coalition for Change leader Nelson Chamisa recently wrote to President Emmerson Mnangagwa seeking a meeting between…

ENERGY minister Zhemu Soda says Zimbabwe is now importing 500 megawatts of electricity from neighbouring countries to mitigate the country’s never-ending power crisis. Speaking in the Senate last week, the minister said the government was, however, doing everything within its capacity to end the power crisis, which has resulted in industry, commerce and ordinary consumers…

ZANU PF says it will intensify its cell verification exercise starting this week to do away with dubious structures created along factional lines. In a statement yesterday, the Zanu PF political commissar, Mike Bimha directed all provinces to start preparing for the exercise, adding the ruling party’s Politburo members will superintend the process.Zanu PF’s cells…

AUTHORITIES will throw the book at everyone who breaks the law in the country regardless of their political affiliation, Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi has said. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, amid charges that the government was clamping down on the opposition ahead of Zimbabwe’s crunch national elections this year, Ziyambi said the law was…