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STAFF WRITER WAR veterans yesterday said President Emmerson Mnangagwa, pictured, is turning around the economy and the country is moving in the right direction. Addressing the media in Harare, the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA) chairperson Christopher Mutsvangwa said war veterans were fully behind Mnangagwa’s economic policies. “As the (ZNLWVA) we are happy…

Vasco Chaya SENIOR WRITER chayav@dailynews.co.zw THE much-feared Cyclone Chalane, which later downgraded to a tropical depression has passed Zimbabwe, the weather forecaster has said. However, over the past three days the tropical depression destroyed some infrastructure mainly in the Eastern Highlands, including Chipinge and Chimanimani. “The tropical depression has greatly weakened and has now passed,…

STAFF WRITERS AS THE country waves good-bye to a horrific 2020 today, the Daily News once again brings you its much-anticipated end of year ratings of the work of the president and his Cabinet ministers during the year. To say 2020 was a ginormous “annus horribilis”, an unspeakably horrible year, is probably an understatement. What with Zimbabweans…

Blessings Mashaya SENIOR STAFF WRITER mashayab@dailynews.co.zw POLITICAL analysts say the deepening rifts in the country’s seemingly voodooed opposition will once again gift the ruling Zanu PF an easy victory in the 2023 national elections. The analysts also told the Daily News yesterday that neither the MDC’s new leader Douglas Mwonzora nor his predecessor Thokozani Khupe could change…

Emmerson Njanjamangezi SENIOR STAFF WRITER njanjamangezie@dailynews.co.zw APOSTOLIC Christian Council of Zimbabwe (ACCZ) president Johannes Ndanga says member sects will accept Covid-19 vaccines if they are offered to them. In an interview with the Daily News yesterday, Ndanga said some members have expressed concerns around the anti-Christ allegations surrounding the vaccines as well as fears about the side…

THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has again appealed to the public to register to vote to avoid having their constituencies cut in the next delimitation exercise. This comes as Zimbabwe awaits the next delimitation exercise meant to create new constituencies ahead of the 2023 general elections. Zec Bulawayo provincial elections officer Innocent Ncube appealed to…

Tarisai Machakaire SENIOR STAFF WRITER machakairet@dailynews.co.zw MDC Alliance and Nelson Chamisa’s lawyer Thabani Mpofu was yesterday arrested and later released for allegedly obstructing the course of justice in police investigations into alleged fake abductions of the opposition party’s youth leaders. The lawyer was advised he would soon be summoned to court to answer to the…

Blessings Mashaya SENIOR STAFF WRITER mashayab@dailynews.co.zw FORMER MDC secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora, pictured, pictured, is the new leader of the country’s biggest opposition party after he trounced his main rival, Thokozani Khupe, in Sunday’s chaotic election in Harare. But speaking in an interview with the Daily News yesterday, a fuming Khupe claimed that she remained the MDC’s interim…