Vasco Chaya and Fungi Kwaramba STAFF WRITERS ©️ THREE MDC youth leaders — who disappeared earlier this week after staging a demonstration in Harare — yesterday narrated harrowing tales that they said they suffered at the hands of their tormentors, the Daily News reports. This comes as police say they are probing the matter, which…
Sindiso Mhlophe SENIOR STAFF WRITER mhlophes@dailynews.co.zw ©️ THE governor of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ), John Mangudya, has revealed that the country’s new higher denominated notes will start circulating from next week, the Daily News reports. This comes as the central bank has also increased the weekly cash withdrawal limit from $300 to $1…
Mugove Tafirenyika SENIOR STAFF WRITER tafirenyikam@dailynews.co.zw ©️ THE Nelson Chamisa-led MDC Alliance has all but admitted that it has lost control over a significant number of its MPs amid revelations that at least 20 of them could jump ship and join the Thokozani Khupe-led group, the Daily News reports. This comes as things are…
ZANU PF politburo member and former youth secretary Absolom Sikhosana has died. He was 71. More details to follow…
Mugove Tafirenyika SENIOR STAFF WRITER tafirenyikam@dailynews.co.zw ©️ THINGS are moving from bad to worse for Nelson Chamisa and his top MDC allies, after more party MPs defied his decree to withdraw their services from Parliament yesterday, the Daily News reports. This comes as political analysts have warned that the charismatic politician’s directive was a “bad”…
Nokuthaba Nkomo STAFF WRITER nkomon@dailynews.co.zw ©️ DOCTORS have implored authorities to isolate Covid-19 patients at hospitals, as part of efforts to curb the disease’s spread in the country, the Daily News reports. This comes as the government has so far allowed people who have contracted the disease without showing life-threatening conditions to self-isolate at their…
Tendai Kamhungira and Vasco Chaya STAFF WRITERS THE Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) has raised fears that three MDC officials, including Harare West MP Joanna Mamombe, could have been abducted after she and other party youths staged a flash demonstration in Warren Park, Harare on Wednesday. This also comes after Zimbabwe Republic Police spokesperson…
Shamiso Dzingire in BULAWAYO ©️ THREE men who suffered injuries after they were allegedly assaulted by police officers enforcing the nationwide lockdown, have written to the commissioner-general of police Godwin Matanga, indicating their notice to sue. Trymore Nhari from Gweru, Weston Chadomba and Sethukani Ncube — both from Bulawayo — suffered a broken arm, hearing…
Fungi Kwaramba POLITICAL EDITOR kwarambaf@dailynews.co.zw ©️ WITH the unity and credibility of President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s under pressure administration suffering a fresh blow this week — after his ministers were involved in an unseemly public quarrel — it seems inevitable that something will have to give soon. This comes as Zanu PF insiders have told the…
©️ IT’S a sad reality that Zimbabwe’s fortunes have been plunging on many fronts for the past four decades. Unfortunately, one of the things that should have fallen for good by now, but which is stubbornly defying this gravitational pull, is the toxic nature of our politics. In this polarised climate, the boneheads and windbags…
