SOUTH Africa’s wish for unity of purpose among Zimbabwe’s major political parties — while noble — could be a bridge too far at the moment, as the various contestants have their eyes firmly fixed on the looming 2023 national elections, analysts say. In addition, they also said, no one among the country’s “Big Three” parties…

SOUTH Africa says it is difficult to assist Zimbabwe as its citizens continue to pay the price for its decades-long political and economic challenges, until there is unity of purpose among all local stakeholders. Speaking in Pretoria last week, two years after Pretoria failed to convince Zanu PF and the opposition to hold much-needed dialogue,…

FORMER Cabinet minister Walter Mzembi has rebuffed calls for him and other exiled erstwhile Zanu PF top cats to return home and join a mooted splinter ruling party outfit, Zanu PF Original — warning that the governing party was “a beast not to be played with”. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, Mzembi said it…

THE ruling party’s Generation 40 (G40) faction is regrouping and has launched a breakaway party called Zanu PF Original, which is in the process of persuading self-exiled former Cabinet minister Saviour Kasukuwere to lead the organisation and challenge President Emmerson Mnangagwa in next year’s crunch elections. Addressing a media conference at Flame Lily Lodge in…

MDC leader Douglas Mwonzora’s position has come under serious threat from his former allies, who include the late party founding leader Morgan Tsvangirai’s son, Vincent, who is reportedly mulling challenging him for the presidency. This comes as the MDC’s ordinary elective congress is now overdue amid claims that Mwonzora was blocking it amid fears that…

THE question of who will lead Zanu PF in next year’s national elections has long been settled, with the task of the former liberation movement’s forthcoming congress just to formalise President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s continuing pilotage of the party. So says the newly-elected Zanu PF youth league deputy secretary, John Paradza, who also told the Daily News yesterday…

THE Ministry of Agriculture is embroiled in a US$87 million tender controversy after it contracted a little known and little-experienced company, Grindale Private Limited (Grindale), to construct Vungu Dam in the Midlands. This comes as the government has increasingly come under scrutiny over a number of major tenders that it has awarded in contested circumstances….

HARARE is making a fresh bid to revive the country’s floundering efforts to mend its frosty relationship with the United Kingdom (UK). This comes after President  Emmerson Mnangagwa, pictured,  dispatched Foreign Affairs minister Frederick Shava and his Finance counterpart Mthuli Ncube to London on Tuesday, to meet key role players there. The deputy minister of Foreign Affairs,…

UNIONS representing public sector workers have warned that they will join a planned strike by nurses beginning today, unless authorties urgently address all their grievances. Charles Chinosengwa, the spokesperson of the Zimbabwe Confederation of Public Sector Trade Unions (ZCPSTU) — the umbrella body for civil servants’ unions — also told the Daily News yesterday that…

ZANU PF deputy national youth league chairperson John Paradza has warned the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) party against violence saying they would be forced to retaliate. Speaking during his familiarisation meeting with Harare provincial youth league in Harare yesterday, Paradza said Zanu PF youth were disturbed by increasing cases of violence in the…