OPPOSITION leader Douglas Mwonzora, may be close to joining President Emmerson Mnangagwa and others in the Political Actors’ Dialogue (Polad) platform, as the pressure for key stakeholders to engage in inclusive national talks mounts. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, as time begins to run out for meaningful dialogue ahead of the fast-approaching 2023 elections, Mwonzora confirmed…

PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa, picturedg,  yesterday announced a return to normal business trading hours, while allowing inter-city travel after he eased the national coronavirus lockdown further. Mnangagwa said the national Covid-19 lockdown had now been downgraded to Level Two, with the previous dusk-to-dawn curfew now starting later at 10pm and ending at 05:30am. “I am ……

ZANU PF has enlisted the services of President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s office to resolve a dispute in Midlands Province between Zvishavane land barons and a local housing cooperative over residential stands.  The development follows a letter written to the Zanu PF Midlands provincial chairperson Daniel Mackenzie Ncube, pictured, by the ruling party’s national secretary for legal…

LIBERATION stalwart and former Zanu PF spokesperson, Rugare Gumbo, says politicians are letting Zimbabweans down by failing to initiate all-inclusive national dialogue to end the country’s decades-long myriad challenges. Speaking to the Daily News on Sunday, yesterday the forthright nationalist also warned that time was running out for these necessary talks, especially given that the…

SPARKS are expected to fly at today’s Zanu PF politburo meeting in Harare, which comes amid worsening tensions in the former liberation movement ahead of the party’s crucial internal elections. Apart from impending youth league provincial elections becoming the latest battleground for ugly factional fights in the former liberation movement, the party is also gearing…

THE prevalence of a big brother mentality and personality cults within the country’s opposition is a major stumbling block towards removing Zanu PF from power, former MDC treasurer general Elton Mangoma, has warned. Speaking in an interview with the Daily News yesterday, the since retired politician added that continued divisions among the opposition would see both President…

THE government has moved to control the operations of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) after Cabinet approved the Private Voluntary Organisations (PVOs) Act Amendment Bill yesterday.  This comes as authorities at Munhumutapa have in recent months turned their guns on NGOs and civic society organisations deemed to be “hostile” to the government and pursuing a “regime change…

ZANU PF’s preparations for its annual conference are facing serious challenges amid the Covid-19 pandemic, as the ruling party is still to complete its restructuring exercise ahead of the meeting set for next month. This comes as the ruling party has already resolved to hold the indaba set for Bindura, Mashonaland Central Province, virtually with…

AS ZANU PF steps up its campaign to lure back bigwigs who were hounded out of the ruling party during the last few years in power of the late former president Robert Mugabe, the former liberation movement said yesterday that it had lured back ex-war veterans leader Jabulani Sibanda, to its ranks. JB, as Sibanda…