RAMPANT factionalism and endless bickering will remain a major feature of local political parties, until they improve their internal democratic processes and deal decisively with the thorny issue of succession, analysts say. Speaking to the Daily News On Sunday yesterday, the analysts said it was particularly striking that all local political parties did not seem…

PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa will seek to serve a second term in office, and will not be challenged at the Zanu PF congress scheduled for October this year, his spokesperson George Charamba said yesterday. Speaking to the Daily News in the light of sustained claims of fissures between Mnangagwa and Vice President Constantino Chiwenga, Charamba also emphasised that…

ZANU PF says the clergy, political parties and civil society pushing for inclusive national dialogue must engage President Emmerson Mnangagwa and the party directly, as opposed to issuing public statements. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, Zanu PF director of Information Tafadzwa Mugwadi said this was a more productive route to take, especially as Mnangagwa’s office was…

PUBLIC sector workers who are digging in on their demands for better salaries vowed yesterday to press on with their planned strike despite moves by the government to further improve their pay. They said the new salary increment of nearly 150 percent offered by their employer was not good enough and meant to divide them….

THE government will today hold crucial talks with on edge public sector workers in a last-ditch attempt to avert a crippling strike…

THE government’s latest economic measures continue to come under heavy scrutiny, with legislators imploring authorities this week to intervene again urgently to cushion the poor from their growing hardships. Speaking in the Senate on Thursday, MDCs senators Morgen Komichi and Khaliphani Phugeni said impoverished Zimbabweans were hurting badly, which obliged the government to come up…

ZIMBABWE should brace for social media warfare with the country’s major political parties already fine tuning their communication media strategies to outwit each other ahead of the much-anticipated elections next year, analysts say. This comes as the ruling Zanu PF party is training their social media activists ahead of the polls in order to counter…

ZANU PF politburo member, Munyaradzi Machacha has accused some ruling party bigwigs of contributing to the country’s worsening economic situation through their rent-seeking behaviour. Machacha, the head of Zanu PF’s Herbert Chitepo School of Ideology, told party followers in a closed door meeting in Masvingo at the weekend that the current economic turmoil was partly…

GROWING calls by Zanu PF’s women’s league for the ruling party to amend its constitution to accommodate a female vice president will effectively consolidate President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s power as he moves towards a second term in office, analysts say. Speaking to the Daily News On Sunday yesterday, the analysts said the calls were likely to…