HARARE – Zanu PF holds its Annual People’s Conference this week in the resort town of Victoria Falls against widening fissures in the party and a troubled economy. The conference offers little hope to ordinary Zimbabweans who have gained nothing from the Zanu PF government in the last 35 years to suggest that the country…
HARARE – Respected economist and director of the Labour & Economic Development Research Institute of Zimbabwe (Ledriz) Godfrey Kanyenze shares his views with the Daily News Senior Assistant Editor Guthrie Munyuki on the recently unveiled 2016 National Budget and other economic issues and below are the excerpts of the interview. [GoogleAd] Q: The 2016 National Budget…
HARARE – Mr Ugly Zimbabwe pageant founder David Machowa’s dream to hold a Mr Ugly World, hence make his contest global has bright prospects although a lot of ground work needs to be done on the national level. The recent Mr Ugly finals held at City Sports bar in Harare has received world-wide reviews prompting…
BULAWAYO – Unless you were under the influence of powerful drugs, you would hardly describe as memorable or exciting the first 35 years of our independence. For a start, 20 000 innocent lives have been confirmed as slaughtered by people believing themselves to be taking revenge on some injury or wrong. [GoogleAd] What preoccupies some…
HARARE – China’s President Xi Jingpin was in the country since Tuesday on his way to the China-Africa summit starting on Friday in South Africa. What is interesting about Jingpin’s visit to Zimbabwe is the vast difference in the two countries’ economies. While China is one of the fastest growing economies in the world, Zimbabwe…
HARARE – Zimbabwe should do more for its people given that its leaders are aware of what it meant to be deprived freedom, former Zanu PF politburo member and ex-Governor for the Midlands Province Cephas Msipa has said. Msipa, undoubtedly one of the country’s elderly politicians, who enjoyed a decades-long friendship with President Robert Mugabe,…
HARARE – Only seven days before the Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) elections there is still rancour in the women’s game due to a leadership crisis. As we report in sports section of this edition of our paper, there are two rival leadership factions, a situation which has paralysed the women’s game. [GoogleAd] The uncertainty is…
HARARE – Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa yesterday delivered an unrealistic and out-of-touch with reality 2016 National Budget that is not expected to inspire any iota of confidence in the country’s ailing economy. With all economic indicators heading nowhere and national tax revenues falling short of the 2015 targets of $4,2 billion and economic growth having…
BULAWAYO – After the sensational parliamentary elections in which Zanu PF suffered its bloodiest nose, in 2000, a highly suspicious comment was made by one of that party’s topnotch analysts. We can’t be verbatim about this, but the general idea was that Zanu PF had lost 57 seats to the recently-formed Movement for Democratic Change…
HARARE – Fiance minister Patrick Chinamasa has once again been presented with a unique opportunity to revive the economy with strong policies that may give a new impetus to the country’s ailing industry when he presents the 2016 National Budget today. Although Chinamasa is faced with a Herculean task of pacifying competing stakeholders in sharing…
