© THE MDC has dragged Speaker of Parliament Jacob Mudenda, pictured, to the International Parliamentary Union (IPU) over his decision to dock the opposition party MPs’ allowances for five months. [GoogleAd] The IPU is the focal point for world-wide parliamentary dialogue and is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. MDC legislators walked out of Parliament before President…
© VOCAL war veterans chairperson and former Cabinet minister Christopher Mutsvangwa, pictured, has challenged opposition leader Nelson Chamisa to help President Emmerson Mnangagwa to resuscitate the country’s comatose economy. [GoogleAd] The forthright Mutsvangwa also implored the MDC leader and his lieutenants to “stop being perpetually in election mode” — as the country’s worsening economy required…
© DESPITE vigorous denials at the time — which even resulted in journalists at our sister newspaper, The Financial Gazette, being charged and incarcerated for criminal defamation for reporting the fact — it has now been confirmed that the late former president Robert Mugabe married Grace in 1992 and not in 1996, the Daily News…
© MORE than a year after President Emmerson Mnangagwa escaped unhurt in a bomb blast that killed his aides and injured several people, the country’s security sector is still to bring to account the people behind the assassination attempt, a Cabinet minister has said. [GoogleAd] Expressing exasperation at the failure to solve the crime that…
© TEACHERS have given government up to Monday next week to pay them for invigilating the ongoing Zimbabwe School Examination Council (Zimsec) October-November examinations or face industrial action, the Daily News can report. In a joint letter to the chief director of curriculum development and technical services in the Primary and Secondary Education ministry, five…
© FIRST Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa has encouraged female war veterans to take up leadership positions so that their voices and challenges are heard. Addressing female war veterans at an interface rally in Bulawayo, Mnangagwa said it is worrying that only a few women held positions of influence in the country. [GoogleAd] The interface meeting was…
© THE Nelson Chamisa-led MDC has reignited demands for electoral reforms after it wrote several letters to the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) demanding that it addresses the issue of disputed elections. MDC secretary for elections Jacob Mafume, pictured below, said they have engaged Zec and are still waiting for responses. [GoogleAd] “The only option left…
© SHORTAGES of bread are set to persist after bakers indicated they have no flour to bake the staple commodity. Major bread suppliers Bakers Inn, Proton and Lobels have hardly been on the market since early this week. Zimbabweans consume around 1,8 million loaves of bread per day and due to the shortages, most people…
© BEER drinkers will now have to dig deeper into their pockets as retailers have hiked prices of the “wise” waters. As of yesterday, a pint of beer (brown bottle) was fetching an average of $12 from $8 while a 750ml bottle had gone up to $20 from $12. Yesterday, Delta Beverages corporate affairs executive…
© HUMAN rights defenders have challenged the government to walk the talk on its commitment to upholding and respecting citizens’ rights. This comes as the government is facing growing pressure from both local and international groups over the recent abductions of its opponents which critics say are aimed at silencing rising dissent against authorities in…
