THE country’s opposition has a fair chance of winning next year’s crunch elections as long as it puts its house in order, former Cabinet minister and MDC stalwart Elton Mangoma has said. Speaking last night on independent national television channel 3Ktv’s popular current affairs programme, Vantage, Mangoma said it was premature to write off the…
AUTHORITIES say they have completed instituting all the important legislative reforms to ensure free, fair and credible national polls next year, in line with Sadc principles and guidelines on democratic elections. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi asserted that the electoral reforms that the government had embarked on were in some…
THERE is no end in sight to Zimbabwe’s debilitating power crisis, with authorities now unsure about when Hwange Power Station’s new Unit 7 with installed capacity of 300 megawatts (MW) will come on stream. This comes as hopeful senior government officials have been promising hurting Zimbabweans a blackouts-free future over the past few months, amid…
PEOPLE with disabilities (PWDs) yesterday launched an organisation that is set to campaign for President Emmerson Mnangagwa ahead of next year’s elections. Speaking at the launch of Disabilities for Economic Development (ED) in Harare yesterday, founder of the organisation Jimayi Muduvuri said they were going to work with Zanu PF structures so that they can…
THERE is mounting disquiet within the ranks of Zanu PF over the preliminary outcomes of the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission’s (Zec) delimitation exercise. At the same time, the national elections management body has defended its work, saying that this won’t affect voting in the station-based polling that will still be in use in the crunch 2023…
FORMER Finance minister and Citizens Coalition for Change senior member Tendai Biti believes Zimbabwe has nothing to benefit from re-joining the Commonwealth, describing the grouping as a ‘‘tea committee’’. Last month, the Commonwealth’s assistant secretary-general Luis Franceschi was in Zimbabwe to assess the situation in the country as Harare seeks re-admission into the grouping. On…
OPPOSITION parties must start preparing for next year’s crunch national elections fully aware that there will be no significant electoral reforms ahead of the polls, political analysts say. Speaking to the Daily News On Sunday yesterday, the analysts said the ruling Zanu PF had no incentive to engage the opposition and was set on exploiting…
PARLIAMENT has said the government must increase funding for soldiers and the police as they are facing challenges purchasing enough uniforms and an adequate supply of rations and fuel, among other items. In a post-budget report that the Defence and Home Affairs committee presented to Parliament on Thursday, legislators said the budget was insufficient to…
AS preparations for next year’s general elections gather pace, Zanu PF has embarked on an extraordinary recruitment drive after setting up structures in churches, hospitals and schools in a bid to retain power. Speaking to Zanu PF affiliates at the party headquarters last week, ruling party national political commissar Mike Bimha said the party was…
PARLIAMENT has urged Zesa to charge realistic prices and to find ways of earning more foreign currency to help the embattled power utility to procure sufficient electricity for both ordinary consumers and business. In a post-2023 budget report presented in Parliament on Wednesday by the Energy and Power Development committee, legislators noted that the current…
