With the country’s main opposition MDC party at war with itself amid leadership wrangles and mass defections to Zanu PF, the ruling party says it cannot wait for 2023 elections to finish off its rivals. This comes as Zanu PF has set a target to increase the number of its registered voters to five million…
THE coronavirus pandemic has hit schools again, following 46 confirmed new cases involving learners, educators and non-teaching staff in Harare and Mberengwa. The cases at Prince Edward High School and Dove Secondary School in Mberengwa have prompted authorities to deploy teams from the ministries of Health and Education to carry out investigations. The national chief…
OUTSPOKEN war veterans secretary-general, Victor Matemadanda, pictured, has lashed out at his Zanu PF critics for prematurely “rushing to write his political obituary”. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, the deputy Defence minister also insisted that he was still the ruling party’s national political commissar despite his reported recent axing from the position. In this regard, Matemadanda…
Mugove Tafirenyika CHIEF WRITER tafirenyikam@dailynews.co.zw AUTHORITIES and medical experts are worried about gatherings during the upcoming Easter holidays, amid fears that these could trigger a local third wave of the lethal coronavirus. The concerns are heightened by the fact that winter is also fast approaching — a time when other respiratory diseases like influenza are…
IN the recent past, several former senior members of the MDC have been defecting to Zanu PF. The ruling party is ecstatic and believes more MDC officials will join its ranks as it plots a total annihilation of the opposition in the 2023 harmonised polls. The Daily News on Sunday Chief Writer Mugove Tafirenyika hooked up…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa says the government could easily circumvent economic sanctions imposed on Harare by the West if the country makes use of its highly-skilled human capital to foster economic development. This comes as the country is reeling under embargoes imposed by the United States of America, the United Kingdom and the European Union on…
MDC Alliance MP for Goromonzi South, Rueben Chikudo has jumped ship to join the main MDC party led by Douglas Mwonzora. This comes as the Nelson Chamisa-led MDC Alliance has been losing legislators through recalls and defections since last year’s Supreme Court ruling that conferred the MDC presidency to Thokozani Khupe. Soon after the ruling,…
HARARE – Largely regarded as the epicentre of the ruling Zanu PF’s support base in Mashonaland East since independence in 1980, Uzumba-Maramba-Pfungwe…
