Vasco Chaya STAFF WRITER chayav@dailynews.co.zw AUTHORITIES yesterday pooh-poohed the alleged recent abduction and torture claims by MDC Alliance youth leaders who had participated in a flash demo in Harare, the Daily News reports. This comes as the three women at the centre of the furore — Harare West MP Joanna Mamombe, Cecilia Chimbiri and Netsai…
Mugove Tafirenyika SENIOR STAFF WRITER tafirenyikam@dailynews.co.zw RESERVE Bank of Zimbabwe governor John Mangudya says the country is importing adequate fuel not to warrant shortages, but there is indiscipline in the oil sector, the Daily News reports. This comes at a time motorists are spending hours in fuel queues across the country. Appearing before the parliamentary…
MDC acting president Thokozani Khupe has agreed to hold a meeting of the party’s 2014 structures to consider the March Supreme Court ruling directing it to call for an extraordinary congress to choose a substantive leader. This comes after 151 out of a possible 200 members who constituted the MDC 2014 national council structures met…
Tendai Kamhungira DEPUTY CHIEF WRITER kamhungirat@dailynews.co.zw ©️ AUTHORITIES appeared to have further beefed up security in Harare yesterday, with more police officers and soldiers visible around the capital — as Covid-19 infections and political tensions continue to rise in the country, the Daily News reports. This comes after the government barred tens of thousands of…
ZIMBABWE has never needed a stronger political opposition than now, a time of worsening economic challenges that portend an imminent regression to the calamitous crisis of a decade ago. Dishearteningly, our opposition leaders still don’t appear to appreciate the fact that the fight for a better and more inclusive democracy requires both diligent strategies and…
Tarisai Machakaire and Tendai Kamhungira STAFF WRITERS PROSECUTORS yesterday said prominent lawyer Thabani Mpofu faced up to 20 years in jail if convicted of charges of corruption and defeating the course of justice he is facing. Mpofu, who is also opposition leader Nelson Chamisa’s lawyer, appeared before chief magistrate Munamato Mutevedzi and was granted $20…
Sindiso Mhlophe SENIOR STAFF WRITER mhlophes@dailynews.co.zw OPPOSITION leader Nelson Chamisa says President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s style of leadership is worse than that of the late former president Robert Mugabe, adding his time is up. Speaking at the Harare Magistrates’ Courts where he had attended a court appearance of top lawyer Thabani Mpofu yesterday for allegedly defeating…
Mugove Tafirenyika and Blessings Mashaya SENIOR STAFF WRITERS©️ THE MDC’s latest ructions have now reached a point of no return, after the party’s interim leadership expelled Nelson Chamisa from the movement — in a development that could have far-reaching implications on the future of the country’s opposition, the Daily News reports. The expulsion means…
Tendai Kamhungira and Jeffrey Muvundisi STAFF WRITERS ©️ AUTHORITIES yesterday barred tens of thousands of people from entering Harare’s central business district (CBD) — creating chaos during the morning rush hour in the process, the Daily News reports. The heightened security — which caught many by surprise — was curiously restricted to the capital city,…
Vasco Chaya STAFF WRITER chayav@dailynews.co.zw ©️ THE Zimbabwe Schools Examination Council (Zimsec) ‘O’ and ‘A’ Levels mid-year local examinations have been set for June 30 to July 23, the Daily News can report. This comes as schools are currently closed in line with the coronavirus national lockdown measures, but the government said they would…
