HOME Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe, pictured, said the recent surge in child murders is worrisome and has appealed to the public to work together with law enforcement agents to stop the killings. Speaking in the National Assembly yesterday, Kazembe said the police were doing their best to stop the killings which were ritually-motivated in most…
THERE is no let up to the senseless infighting consuming the country’s opposition, with MDC supporters belonging to different factions involved in ugly scenes at the weekend. Yesterday, officials from the two dominant factions of the country’s main opposition traded accusations and counter accusations over the chaotic scenes which led to police intervening in the…
IN AN ominous message for the opposition, Zanu PF says it wants all people who have supported the West’s sanctions on Zimbabwe to be barred from taking part in the 2023 polls. In that light, the ruling party says, it wants a provision — barring the likes of MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa — inserted…
ZIMBABWE’S never-ending political and economic crises are blamed on the failure by President Emmerson Mnangagwa, the opposition, civil society and the church to have an all-inclusive dialogue to hammer out solutions. Forthright former Zanu PF spokesperson and the only surviving member of then Zanu’s Dare reChimurenga (the party’s 1970s war council), Rugare Gumbo, believes mistrust…
LIBERATION struggle stalwart and one of the founders of Zanu PF, Rugare Gumbo, says the removal of the running mate clause from the country’s Constitution could come back to haunt the ruling party which has historically struggled with succession. Speaking to the Daily News On Sunday yesterday, Gumbo — who is the only surviving member…
ARMED robbers are using police and army uniforms to rob tobacco farmers at night in the capital, the police have warned. The police said gangs of robbers moving in unregistered vehicles were targeting farmers taking their harvest to tobacco auction floors at night. The police warning follows an incident in which five farmers were robbed…
ZANU PF secretary for administration Obert Mpofu, pictured, says Constitutional Amendment Bill Number 2 is not about President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s succession or sidelining his party and government lieutenants. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, Mpofu said the Bill — which seeks to introduce at least 27 amendments to the country’s Constitution, including dropping the presidential election running…
MDC senators have blasted Constitutional Amendment Bill Number 2, saying it is a step backwards for Zimbabwe, as it takes away power from the people and gives it all to the president. Debating the Bill yesterday, which among other things scraps the running mate clause, opposition senators said the move was against the spirit of…
THE opposition is making a determined push for rural votes ahead of the fast approaching 2023 harmonised elections — triggering an atypical but titanic turf war with Zanu PF which has always dominated the countryside. This has seen the MDC Alliance recently deploying its heavyweights to “gettable” rural constituencies to mobilise communities — as the…
