CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) leader, Nelson Chamisa has yielded to the demands of his defiant MPs over the controversial US$40 000 parliamentary housing loans to legislators. Insiders who spoke to the Daily News yesterday said by capitulating to his MPs’ demands, Chamisa had avoided creating fresh major rifts in his fledgling party.Some of the…
THE row over Parliament’s controversial US$40 000 housing loans to legislators is escalating within the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), which will hold a crunch meeting in Harare today between party leader Nelson Chamisa, pictured, and the defiant MPs. Several party legislators who met Chamisa on Friday told the Daily News yesterday that the CCC…
PEOPLE with disabilities (PWDs) are set to launch an organisation which is meant to support President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s bid for a second term of office in next year’s general elections. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, Kadoma businessman Jimayi Muduvuri, who is known for helping people living with disabilities under the Muduvuri Rehabilitation and Empowerment…
ALTHOUGH Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) bigwigs remain keen to meet with President Emmerson Mnangagwa ahead of the 2023 national elections, this is not likely to happen, presidential spokesperson George Charamba has said. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, Charamba said the window of opportunity for such a meeting had passed, and Mnangagwa was now…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is focusing on his work and is not losing any sleep over ambitions by the multiplicity of political rivals who harbour aspirations to take over from him after the crunch 2023 elections. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, after former Zanu PF bigwig and Cabinet minister Saviour Kasukuwere vocalised his presidential ambitions…
ANXIOUS church leaders have reiterated their call for national dialogue ahead of next year’s crunch harmonised elections to ensure peace in the country. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, the secretary-general of the Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops Conference, Frederick Chiromba, — who is also a member of the Zimbabwe Heads Of Christian Denominations (ZHOCD) — said…
AUTHORITIES will today deliberate on how to mitigate the worsening power crisis in the country, amid growing calls for increased investment in more reliable and clean electricity generation plants. At the same time, former Energy ministers in the short-lived 2009 government of national unity— Elias Mudzuri and Elton Mangoma — urged authorities to re-ignite plans…
THE relentless power cuts ravaging the country are set to worsen in the coming days after Zesa said yesterday it was battling numerous operational challenges, including failing to secure enough coal for its thermal-fired power stations due to a financial crunch. In addition, to the coal problems, the power utility also said five of its…
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube, pictured, has said despite implementing economic reforms and ease of doing business, Zimbabwe still needed to do more to attract foreign investors. In his 2023 National Budget presented at the new Parliament Building last Thursday, Ncube said Zimbabwe had an unfavourable environment for investors to come compared to other southern African…
OPPOSITION Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) senior official, Tendai Biti, has raised a red flag on the Patriotic Bill, claiming the proposed law was an attempt to close the democratic space ahead of next year’s polls. Speaking to the Daily News on Sunday yesterday, Biti said citizens’ rights to freedom of expression would be infringed…
