PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government has a new window of opportunity to seize the moment and mend its frosty relations with western powers, political analysts say. Renowned professor of World Politics at the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies (OAS), Stephen Chan, was among the analysts who told the Daily News On Sunday…
PEOPLE in both urban and rural areas are living at the mercy of gun-toting individuals who are breaking into premises and making away with money and valuables. Week in week out, cases of gun crime and gun violence make the news, with the latest being an armed robbery at a supermarket in Bulawayo this past week….
FORMER deputy prime minister in the 2009 government of national unity (GNU), Arthur Mutambara, says national unity is critical for Zimbabwe to move forward at full throttle. Speaking during a Zimbabwe Council of Churches (ZCC) symposium on Thursday, which looked at recent constitutional changes, Mutambara said deep-seated political divisions were inhibiting the country’s development. At…
ZANU PF Harare province has a serious headache over land barons and has written a letter to the party leadership saying it is now finding it difficult to mobilise supporters ahead of the 2023 elections. In a May 13 letter addressed to Zanu PF chairperson Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri, the party’s Harare provincial chair Godwills Masimirembwa urged…
IN A surprising turn of events at yesterday’s unveiling in Harare of the statue of Mbuya Charwe — the spirit medium of Mbuya Nehanda — traditional leaders said President Emmerson Mnangagwa had been anointed by Zimbabwe’s spirit mediums to lead the country. The traditional leaders, led by Chief Svosve of Mashonaland East, said they respected…
WAR veterans yesterday demanded President Emmerson Mnangagwa to fire Zanu PF secretary for war veterans Douglas Mahiya for allegedly imposing his allies to be members of the ruling party’s ex-combatants league. Speaking during a meeting in Harare South yesterday, Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA) national commissar, Joel Mureremba said Mahiya is failing to…
OVER a fortnight ago, President Emmerson Mnangagwa signed into law Constitutional Amendment No.2 and immediately extended by five years the term of Chief Justice Luke Malaba. The decision was challenged in the High Court, which overturned the appointment. The government has since appealed against the ruling. The amendment is viewed as Mnangagwa’s game plan to…
P RESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF government should ensure the 2023 elections are credible if Zimbabwe is to succeed in its…
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube expects the lives of long-suffering Zimbabweans to improve further in the coming months, on the back of the country’s stabilising economy and cost of living. Writing in his 2020 National Budget Review this week, Ncube noted that as a result of the measures that the government had taken over the past…
PARLIAMENT has demanded that President Emmerson Mnangagwa personally comes to the National Assembly to answer questions from legislators amid concerns that Cabinet ministers either choose not to attend or are incompetent. In the exercise of Parliament’s oversight and representational roles, backbenchers pose questions for oral or written answers to a vice president or a minister…
