PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa’s home town of Kwekwe came to a standstill on Friday as scores of Zanu PF supporters thronged the city centre to celebrate the release from jail of suspected machete gang leader, Tapiwa Muto, the Daily News reports. Muto, 36, who is Zanu PF youth league secretary for education for Midlands Province…
By Blessings Mashaya and Mugove Tafirenyika IT HAS emerged that President Emmerson Mnangagwa blew a gasket on Wednesday after he learnt that some Zanu PF bigwigs were allegedly land barons who were using the proceeds of their ill-gotten gains to cause chaos within the ruling party. Well-placed sources told the Daily News On Sunday yesterday…
ZANU PF has come up with a raft of measures to ensure that this coming weekend’s district co-ordinating committee (DCC) polls will not descend into chaos. Speaking in Harare on Friday, at a party function for editors, Zanu PF secretary for administration, Obert Mpofu, said they had come up with a framework to ring-fence the…
HARARE mayor Jacob Mafume, who is accused of unlawfully influencing council officials to award residential stands to his sister and colleague, will have to remain in prison until tomorrow as there was no magistrate available to deliver his bail ruling yesterday. Mafume is facing allegations of criminal abuse of office and was not asked to…
SUSPENDED Zimbabwe Miners Federation president Henrietta Rushwaya and her alleged accomplices Steven Tserayi, Raphios Mufandauya and Gift Karanda who are in prison are worried with their continued incarceration and have appealed to the court to have the record of proceedings transcribed so that they will approach the High Court for bail appeal. The five are…
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube yesterday gave struggling workers something to cheer about ahead of the festive season when he presented his 2021 National Budget in Harare — significantly easing tax thresholds and promising to recover 150 000 formal jobs which were lost due to the coronavirus pandemic. The $421,6 billion budget, which was delivered under…
THE government has remained steadfast that schools and higher learning institutions will remain open despite the increasing cases of Covid-19 among students, the Daily News reports. Since last week, Zimbabwe has been recording a rise in Covid-19 cases with schools such as John Tallach in Matabeleland South now at 189, while in Mashonaland West Province,…
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube says the government plans to set aside US$150 million to compensate Zimbabweans for loss of value to bank deposits and pensions during the country’s currency reforms last year. As part of the reforms, the government introduced a “market determined exchange rate” in February last year, which entailed transition from a rate…
THE patently false and malicious attacks on the Daily News and its associated entities by naysayers are escalating ever since the Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe(Baz) issued six new television licences. Following last week’s falsehoods peddled by online platforms — mostly run by discredited former State media editors — who claimed that the minister of…
Blessings Mashaya and Loyd Matare STAFF WRITERS A LIVID President Emmerson Mnangagwa has warned Zanu PF bigwigs to be loyal to the party or risk being cut loose, as he bids to contain growing divisions in the former liberation movement, the Daily News reports. Addressing a Zanu PF politburo meeting in Harare yesterday, Mnangagwa also warned that…
