HARARE – While over the years the MDC-led Harare City Council has been accused of promoting lawlessness in the central business district (CBD), President Robert Mugabe recently let the cat out of the bag when he revealed that it was actually his party officials who have been blocking the cleaning operation as they were afraid…
HARARE – Yesterday, a local weekly reported that the much-hyped billion-dollar Zisco Steel (Zisco) deal was yet to be signed. The man at the forefront of crafting and announcing the deal, Industry and Commerce minister Mike Bimha, said “nothing solid has been signed to date”, though, he thought there has been a “lot of progress”….
EDITOR — The man at the centre of economic decline in the Motherland is in the United States attending meetings meant for Treasury officials, with the shock from the non-event called a reshuffle in Zanu PF diction, poor Patrick will enjoy the longest and lonely trip back home. On arrival he will be faced with…
HARARE – One of the biggest losers in President Robert Mugabe’s Monday Cabinet reshuffle was no doubt Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa, along with other individuals perceived to have rooted for him taking over from the 93-year-old Zanu PF leader. After announcing at a youth league meeting in Harare last Friday that he would be tinkering…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s order for Zanu PF to import $3,6 million worth of service vehicles for the youth and women’s leagues ahead of the 2018 elections is an insult to government’s indigenisation drive. While there are several car dealers in the country, several of whom are on the brink of folding because of…
HARARE – Observers have often remarked that Zanu PF behaves like a pack of baboons that savages each other when there is food to partake in but regroups at the slightest whiff of danger. Despite their rivalry over President Robert Mugabe’s succession, like a pack of baboons, party functionaries are sensing danger at the forthcoming…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe told members of his party’s youth league on Saturday that they should expect to see Cabinet changes in the coming days as he seeks to foster a sense of unity of purpose amongst his wrangling lieutenants. The current Cabinet probably ranks as the worst since Zanu PF assumed power more…
HARARE – Obviously, the Daily News feels vindicated after President Robert Mugabe confirmed — at a youth meeting on Saturday — its story on an impending Cabinet reshuffle that was published at the end of September. On his return from the United Nations General Assembly meeting in New York on September 25, Mugabe hinted that…
HARARE – The recent announcement by National Social Security Authority (Nssa) that it will from this month not pay close to 19 000 pensioners who have failed to register with the Nssa biometric system will for sure be condemning the already poverty-stricken elderly to destitution. While it is good to introduce the biometric system so…
HARARE – Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa barred several private news organisations from an on-camera press briefing on Thursday night, handpicking a select group of State media reporters that he perceives to be friendly towards him. The “gaggle” with the VP then took place before only a pool of State media journalists. Outlets seeking to gain…
