WITH 2023 now around the corner, the MDC Alliance has reiterated the urgent need for national dialogue, especially relating to essential electoral reforms ahead of the beckoning polls. The alliance said earlier this week, following a meeting of its national standing committee in Harare, that the much-talked about dialogue should include the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission…
THE family of the late former president Robert Mugabe says it will fight all attempts to exhume his remains from his rural home in Kutama Village. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, Mugabe’s angry nephew Leo also said none of the close family members would attend the traditional court in Zvimba, Mashonaland West — further describing its…
THE government has launched a blitz against unregistered vehicles that are defying a ban on pirate operators by continuing to ferry passengers on roads across the country. At the start of the Covid-19 pandemic in March last year, the government banned all private vehicles, including kombis, from operating unless they have been registered with the…
THE MDC Alliance has been hit by fresh turbulence, with members of its youth assembly now aiming their guns at some of the opposition coalition’s senior officials, as leadership conflicts continue to ravage the often discordant group. This comes as political analysts have warned that the opposition risks receiving a heavy shellacking from Zanu PF…
THERE was drama in Parliament yesterday as legislators brawled after disagreeing on whether or not businessman Wicknell Chivayo should appear before a portfolio committee over a US$5 million solar tender he was awarded by Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC). Things came to a head when Independent Norton MP Temba Mliswa insisted that the parliamentary portfolio committee…
THE opposition’s senseless infighting is continuing unabated, with MDC factions once again engaging in violent clashes in Harare at the weekend, which left at least five people injured. The latest MDC-MDC Alliance factional wars come two weeks after groups paying allegiance to the two feuding cliques also savaged each other in Bindura, where the main…
THE government has confirmed that Chief Justice Luke Malaba, pictured, will continue as the head of the country’s judiciary, following the passage of Constitutional Amendment Number 2 Bill last week. This means that Malaba — who turns 70 this week, which was the age of his retirement before the recent law changes — will be…
POLICE have blocked the MDC led by Douglas Mwonzora, pictured, from holding their party gap-filling exercise in Harare on three occasions citing failure to meet requirements of the Maintenance of Peace and Order Act (Mopa). This comes as Mwonzora’s supporters clashed with their MDC Alliance counterparts from the Nelson Chamisa-led faction in Bindura over a…
THE country’s education system has been hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic and incessant labour unrest with teachers demanding better working conditions. This has manifested in a significant drop in the pass rate for the 2020 Zimbabwe Schools Examination Council examinations. The Daily News Chief Writer Mugove Tafirenyika last week interviewed former Education minister David Coltart…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday signed into law the Constitutional Amendment Bill Number 2 after it was recently passed by both the National Assembly and the Senate. In addition, Mnangagwa also assented to Manpower Planning and Development Amendment Bill Number 12 of 2020 after it also passed through both the upper and lower houses. In an…
