CHEGUTU – Vice President Kembo Mohadi yesterday admitted that the President Emmerson Mnangagwa so-called new dispensation is a “junta government” that came to power through a coup carried out by trained cadres. Addressing hundreds of Zanu PF supporters in the now ghostly town of Chegutu in Mashonaland West Province, the former State Security minister said…
HARARE – Former Zanu PF national political commissar, Saviour Kasukuwere, received a five-star treatment when he surfaced at the Harare Magistrates’ Courts yesterday to face charges of illegally skipping the country’s boarder in November last year. When the 47-year-old politician arrived at court, he was taken through routine vetting procedures but was not booked into…
HARARE – ZANU PF has started a witch-hunt targeting prospective legislators and officials fingered by the country’s spy arms for allegedly plotting a post-election impeachment of President Emmerson Mnangagwa. This comes as the 75-year-old leader is struggling to unite a party riven by factionalism and mounting suspicion. The Daily News can report that a politburo…
HWANGE – Hwange Colliery Company Limited (HCCL) has finally climbed down from its hardline position to end a nearly 120-day long protest by wives of employees who were owed thousands of United States dollars in back pay. The Zimbabwe Stock Exchange-listed concern caused the protesting wives to end the strike by committing to providing business…
HARARE – MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has threatened to banish Charlton Hwende and Shakespeare Mukoyi from the party because of their ‘‘wayward’’ conduct during the movement’s on-going primary elections. Hwende, a national standing committee member and Mukoyi, who is the deputy MDC youth assembly chairperson, are enmeshed in a bitter war of words as they…
HARARE – Mount Pleasant Heights residents have dragged the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) and its chairperson, Justice Priscillah Chigumba, to the High Court, accusing the electoral body of clandestinely transferring them to Mazowe South Constituency. According to the urgent chamber application, former Mt Pleasant Heights councillor Warship Dumba and Celine Eunice Nyakutsikwa are seeking a…
HARARE – The National Patriotic Front (NPF) has accused the parliamentary portfolio committee on Mines and Energy of abusing former president Robert Mugabe by persistently summoning him to give oral evidence on the missing $15 billion reportedly stolen from Marange diamonds. NPF national spokesperson Jealousy Mawarire accused Temba Mliswa, who heads the portfolio committee, of…
HARARE – A parliamentary committee has recommended an investigation into the conduct of government officials, including former ministers, fingered in opaque deals involving the $200 million Gwanda solar project. The Temba Mliswa-chaired parliamentary portfolio committee on Energy and Mining Development has also recommended the dissolution of the Zesa Holdings board, as well as that of…
HARARE – A company owned by former president Robert Mugabe has been dragged to the High Court for failing to pay over $174 000 for potato seed acquired on credit in 2015. According to court papers, in July 2015, Seed Potato Co-op (Private) Limited entered into a verbal agreement with Gushungo Holdings, owned by the…
HARARE – Zanu PF is mobilising 2 million cross-border traders to make sure they are home by July 25 to vote for President Emmerson Mnangagwa in the forthcoming do-or-die general elections. This comes after Mnangagwa announced on Wednesday the country’s national elections would take place on July 30 and that some 128 political parties are…
