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ZANU PF is contending with fresh turbulence, as ambitious party bigwigs fight over the right to stand in looming parliamentary by-elections and to become provincial chairpersons. Insiders who spoke to the Daily News yesterday said campaigning for the influential party provincial chairpersons’ posts was in full swing, with officials taking each other on along factional lines. The…

PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday signed into law the Constitutional Amendment Bill Number 2 after it was recently passed by both the National Assembly and the Senate. In addition, Mnangagwa also assented to Manpower Planning and Development Amendment Bill Number 12 of 2020 after it also passed through both the upper and lower houses. In an…

PARLIAMENTARIANS have taken Finance minister Mthuli Ncube to task over claims of budget surplus, demanding a breakdown of how the money was used, saying the situation on the ground contradicted assertions that the government had excess money. Norton Independent MP Temba Mliswa this week asked deputy Speaker Tsitsi Gezi to summon Ncube to the National…

ZANU PF says it has no appetite to get involved in the affairs of South Africa’s ruling party, the African National Congress (ANC), where President Cyril Ramaphosa is at loggerheads with suspended secretary-general Ace Magashule.  This comes as Ramaphosa and the ANC have been pressing to end Zimbabwe’s long-standing challenges — which were recently brought…

WITH South Africa’s governing African National Congress (ANC) consumed by ugly factionalism, sources in Pretoria say the regional economic power’s intervention in Zimbabwe’s decades-long challenges is dead in the water. This comes as the bare-knuckles brawl between President Cyril Ramaphosa, pictured, and ANC secretary-general Ace Magashule has come to a head, with the “suspended” Magashule…

LEGISLATORS from across the political divide have condemned the government for civil servants’ poor salaries which are now allegedly affecting service delivery due to the depressed morale of workers.  At the moment, the government workers have embarked on a partial strike as they are reporting for duty only twice a week citing incapacitation.  Two weeks…

THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has resolved to take over a privately-owned up-market cemetery, Umvutcha, as the country’s second largest city runs out of burial space. The cemetery in Trenance suburb, which is expected to ease the shortage of burial space in the city, has an estimated grave capacity of 45 000. This comes after…

THE government has a serious headache over public transport challenges and is now considering withdrawing intercity buses to bridge the deficit in urban areas. Local Government minister July Moyo, pictured, told legislators in the National Assembly on Wednesday that they are looking at various options to address the transport situation. “I will admit that if…

MDC leader Douglas Mwonzora, pictured, has accused his opposition rivals of “hypocrisy”, “spreading hate on social media” and “doing nothing” to stop the passage of Constitutional Amendment Bill Number 2 in Parliament. Addressing a media conference in Harare yesterday, the miffed opposition leader also said many of his detractors were trying to “score cheap political…

HOME Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe, pictured, said the recent surge in child murders is worrisome and has appealed to the public to work together with law enforcement agents to stop the killings.  Speaking in the National Assembly yesterday, Kazembe said the police were doing their best to stop the killings which were ritually-motivated in most…