HARARE – While on government duty in India, my attention has been drawn to reckless, irresponsible, disrespectful and unacceptable remarks about me by Obert Mpofu made in the glare of the media at an extraordinary meeting of Zanu PF’s Matabeleland North provincial coordinating committee in Lupane on April 23, 2017. I have read Mpofu’s remarks…
HARARE – If there is one thing that Zanu PF politicians, including President Robert Mugabe, have perfected in the last decade, it is to blame sanctions for everything that has gone bad in this country. This very disconcerting propaganda has been given legs by government which is funding a research on the impact of the…
HARARE – As reported elsewhere in this edition, the rise in the demand for card-swipe or point-of-sale (POS) machines appears to be fairly good news for all Zimbabweans. However, there is need for citizens to be circumspect as cascading the technology may only be easy in urban areas. Zimbabwe’s rural population, who may also need…
HARARE – It is said in Shona that “wafa anaka”, which loosely interpreted means that the civil thing that people tend to do when somebody passes away — no matter how bad the deceased was — is not to dwell too much on that person’s errant ways. Even though we at the Daily News always…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe on Tuesday wasted a golden opportunity to pronounce key solutions to economic challenges affecting the masses such as a debilitating cash crunch that is threatening to break the country apart. To say Zimbabwe is a pale shadow of its former self would be an understatement. The country is literally on…
HARARE – As Zimbabweans celebrate 37 years of independence, the Daily News spoke to a number of people with diverse interests to find out how our journey has been so far. Zimbabwe’s independence is celebrated on April 18 each year since President Robert Mugabe was voted into office in 1980. Over the years, however, Zimbabweans…
HARARE – Despite President Robert Mugabe’s calls for calm in Zanu PF in response to the several demonstrations held countrywide against embattled party national political commissar Saviour Kasukuwere, deadly violence erupted in Harare on Saturday as supporters from opposing camps turned on each other and against police. As opposed to the past, this time around,…
HARARE – The cash shortages affecting Zimbabwe today are nothing new; this is familiar territory people trudged during the tumultuous years of 2008-9. We warned before that the signs were ominous when government introduced bond notes last year, ostensibly as an export incentive which would also ease the obtaining cash shortages. On Thursday last week,…
HARARE – Every year, we are never short of people, including Christians, who misguidedly attack Easter and Christmas celebrations as if Christians are committing a great sin by taking over originally pagan celebrations to serve the cause of Christ. Now, I must make it clear from the onset that I am a Christ-follower — a…
HARARE – With only two weeks into the 2017 Castle Lager Premiership season, it is disappointing to note that a lot of fans have already started complaining about the lack of goals. Over the years, local strikers and attack-minded midfielders have become very goal-shy. CAPS United forward Leonard Tsipa won the 2016 Golden Boot with…
