ZANU PF national political commissar, Mike Bimha, pictured, has warned that the ruling party’s continuing factional fights could sabotage the former liberation movement’s 2023 poll targets. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, amid widening fissures in Zanu PF regional structures despite the party having recently concluded its provincial elections, Bimha appealed for unity saying this was the…

LIBERATION struggle stalwart and one of the founders of Zanu PF, Rugare Gumbo, has implored President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his ruling party to use the March 26 by-elections to end the country’s history of disputed polls. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, Gumbo — who is the only surviving member of the Dare ReChimurenga (liberation war council)…

PUBLIC sector workers are pushing for an urgent review of their remuneration and other working conditions which they say have been badly affected by the country’s sickly economy. In a letter to Labour minister Paul Mavima yesterday, the president of the Zimbabwe Confederation of Public Sector Trade Unions (ZCPSTU) — also known as the Apex…

THERE is no let-up to the war of attrition between opposition leader Douglas Mwonzora and Nelson Chamisa, with the MDC cranking up the heat on the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) yesterday. Speaking to the Daily News, Mwonzora confirmed that the MDC would recall all CCC legislators who would make it to Parliament or council after…

AUTHORITIES further eased the country’s coronavirus restrictions yesterday, while also allowing schools to reopen for face-to-face learning as from February 7— as Covid deaths and new infections continue to decline. At the same time, and in a move that will be welcomed by many people, the government has also reviewed curfew times — which will…

THE newly-rebranded Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) scrambled to play down simmering tensions among its bigwigs yesterday over candidates for the March 26 by-elections. This comes as the party’s controversial decision to choose its candidates through “consensus” continues to raise temperatures — resulting in the troubling fielding of double contenders in Bulawayo and Masvingo on…

ZIMBABWEANS residing in South Africa have been urged to be vigilant in the face of escalating xenophobic attacks in the country. This…

YESTERDAY’s High Court ruling, which blocked by-elections from being held in six constituencies, has potentially set the stage for more bloodletting within the country’s opposition. The ruling came as the MDC warned anew that it would recall more MPs from Parliament who were elected to the august House on the Alliance ticket — with some…

THE country’s three major political parties, Zanu PF, MDC led by Douglas Mwonzora and the newly-formed Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), yesterday said they are ready for today’s parliamentary and council by-elections candidates’ nominations. This comes as nomination courts would sit to receive papers from would-be candidates for the March 26 by-elections. Zanu PF political…