THE MDC’s national standing committee (NSC) meets in the capital city tomorrow to finalise congress preparations amid serious jostling for positions among party bigwigs. Slated to run from May 24 to 26, the elective congress is the first to be held following the death of the party’s founding leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, in February last year….
HARARE – The MDC led by Nelson Chamisa has merged Harare province with Chitungwiza while Midlands North and South have been collapsed into one as part of preparations for its elective congress slated for May. [GoogleAd] MDC spokesperson Jacob Mafume told the Daily News that the party was merely implementing a 2014 congress resolution whose implementation had…
Fuel queues are getting even longer in the second city as government bureaucrats struggle to find a lasting solution to the crisis. Motorists are once again spending long hours in queues at pump stations dotted across the city, waiting to fuel their vehicles. Supplies have been erratic, with only a few service stations getting deliveries….
HARARE – The arrest of MDC MP for Harare West Joana Mamombe during a parliamentary workshop in Nyanga at the weekend was above board as she was taken by police well after the august House’s business, National Assembly Speaker Jacob Mudenda has said. [GoogleAd] Mamombe was driven back to Harare where she was detained. She…
HARARE – A War veteran based in Mashonaland Central is in soup with the authorities after he went berserk late last year and savagely assaulted 116 pupils at a local primary school for alleged indiscipline. [GoogleAd] As a result, Solomon Samu will appear in court today, after he was recently arrested for the merciless attacks on the…
THE curious case in which opposition leader Nelson Chamisa has been accused of raping a 39-year-old woman (name withheld for ethical reasons) is floundering after police confirmed yesterday that the complainant may indeed be suffering from mental health problems, the Daily News can report. [GoogleAd] As a result, authorities are waiting for direction from psychiatric…
HARARE – Harare City Council (HCC) has had to revisit its refuse collection fleet and go back to tender as more of trucks continue breaking down. [GoogleAd] HCC environmental committee chairperson Kudzai Kadzombe told the Daily News that their biggest challenge apart from non-servicing of refuse compactors, was fuel. “In order to deal with the backlog of…
A Norton man was convicted and slapped with four years’ imprisonment for causing the electrocution of a 21 months old baby that touched live electricity wires that lay unprotected at his residence. [GoogleAd] Wilbert Ndiyamba, 35, was convicted of contravening section 60 (a) (3) (b) of the Electricity Act and culpable homicide before Harare regional magistrate…
HARARE – Another showdown is looming between doctors and government as the Health ministry has not yet addressed doctors’ demands agreed in the collective bargaining agreement (CBA) which saw the medical practitioners ending their industrial action. [GoogleAd] In December the doctors embarked on a 40-day industrial action that ended in January this year, protesting the severe shortages…
HARARE – Government has denied allegations that it has devised a plan to infiltrate MDC structures ahead of its congress saying none of the opposition presidential candidates could be a match to President Emmerson Mnangagwa who is set to contest the 2023 elections on a Zanu PF ticket. [GoogleAd] This comes as MDC’s senior leadership has openly…
