ZIMBABWEANS — including clerics and politicians — yesterday paid tribute to the late popular Nigerian televangelist, Temitope Balogun Joshua, pictured, who had…
ZESA has embarked on a nationwide blitz to disconnect defaulting consumers, particularly local authorities — as it bids to recover an estimated $1 billion in outstanding debts. Last week, the power utility cut off the City of Gweru and Gwanda Municipality’s water and sewage treatment plants — resulting in residents there going for days without…
OPPOSITION leader Douglas Mwonzora is going for the jugular against Nelson Chamisa, reiterating yesterday that he will henceforth use the MDC Alliance name in elections — starting with the impending parliamentary and local government by-elections. This comes as respected political analysts are warning that the country’s fractured opposition will receive a heavy shellacking from Zanu…
ZIMBABWE National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA) chairperson Christopher Mutsvangwa, says President Emmerson Mnangagwa will have the final say on the next leader of the association with the current executive’s term of office coming to an end. This comes as former combatants of the country’s liberation war in the 1970s had already commenced preparations for…
M INISTER of State for Presidential Affairs and Monitoring Implementation of Government Programmes Jorum Gumbo says the government has so far completed…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa, pictured, says his administration’s re-engagement efforts are bearing fruit, as evidenced by various investment projects currently underway. In his remarks while opening the Chamber of Mines Zimbabwe (CoMZ) annual conference in Victoria Falls yesterday Mnangagwa said the results of the government’s efforts were being particularly felt in the mining sector where the…
THE chaos that is consuming the MDC Alliance is threatening to spiral out of control, with insiders revealing yesterday that a faction opposed to Nelson Chamisa’s leadership is now also wreaking havoc within the coalition’s women’s assembly. Well-placed sources who spoke to the Daily News last night said at the heart of the alliance’s deepening ructions was…
ZANU PF secretary for administration Obert Mpofu has warned officials overseeing the ruling party’s ongoing reorganisation exercise against falsifying structures. This comes amid reports that some Zanu PF branch executives who were tasked with building party cells across the country were merely taking down rosters recorded by village heads as cell membership. Sources told the Daily…
THE government has expressed concern over citizens’ complacency in observing Covid-19 regulations, particularly at funerals amid fears of a third wave hitting the country. This comes as the deadly Indian variant of Covid-19 was reported in Kwekwe last month. It also comes as neighbouring South Africa has tightened its lockdown regulations this week after it…
THE Douglas Mwonzora-led MDC is struggling to pay its election agents who participated in the 2018 elections as well as party employees, with some claiming they have not received salaries for close to a year. This comes as one of the employees, Kudzanai Mashumba, who was MDC vice president Thokozani Khupe’s chief aide when she…
