Mugove Tafirenyika SENIOR STAFF WRITER tafirenyikam@dailynews.co.zw ZANU PF chief whip Pupurai Togarepi has hailed opposition MDC MPs and their ruling party counterparts for discarding divisive politics to engage in constructive debates in the National Assembly, the Daily News reports. This comes as interim MDC president Thokozani Khupe was this week sworn in as proportional representative for Bulawayo…
THIS weekend’s Zanu PF elections to choose the party’s parliamentary candidates for Harare are the latest activities of the former liberation movement to be hit by debilitating chaos — with senior officials engaging in ugly spats, the Daily News reports. This comes as the ruling party’s deadly tribal and factional demons are once again wreaking…
FORMER Cabinet minister Nicholas Goche, who was later expelled from the ruling Zanu PF, yesterday appeared before a Bindura magistrate after he was arrested for allegedly stealing 18 heifers worth US$18 000. The former political heavyweight and secretary for transport in the Zanu PF politburo was arrested on Wednesday and spent the night in police…
A FRESH battle is looming in the fractured MDC over delegates to the party’s extra-ordinary congress in December with supporters of Nelson Chamisa barred from attending and now threatening to seek legal recourse, the Daily News reports. This comes as Chamisa has instructed his MDC Alliance members — who were part of the MDC…
THE Combined Harare Residents Association (Chra) has called on the government to improve its fiscal commitment towards health services for local authorities in the 2021 budget, the Daily News reports. This comes as Chra was recently granted an order by the High Court compelling the City of Harare to ensure that 42 of its clinics…
Blessings Mashaya SENIOR STAFF WRITER mashayab@dailynews.co.zw TITANIC battles are looming in the impending Zanu PF district co-ordinating committee (DCC) elections, as Cabinet ministers and legislators join ordinary party members in the critical race for seats in the influential organs, the Daily News reports. So intense is the jostling for places in the DCCs, that the…
Mugove Tafirenyika SENIOR STAFF WRITER tafirenyikam@dailynews.co.zw THE Speaker of the National Assembly, Jacob Mudenda, revealed yesterday that a surprising 142 Members of Parliament had not applied for funds to develop their constituencies, the Daily News reports. Mudenda said what was jarring about this was that the MPs appeared not to have seen the need to…
Blessings Mashaya SENIOR STAFF WRITER mashayab@dailynews,.co.zw TEACHERS’ unions yesterday came out guns blazing, claiming Primary and Secondary Education minister Cain Mathema is misinformed that there are adequate educators in schools preparing learners to write examinations this year. This follows claims by Mathema on Tuesday that teachers coming to work were enough to teach examination classes….
Mugove Tafirenyika SENIOR STAFF WRITER tafirenyikam@dailynews.co.zw MDC interim leader Thokozani Khupe and her 14 party nominees were yesterday sworn in as MPs in the National Assembly and Senate despite an urgent court application to stop the process, the Daily News reports. This comes as the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) last week confirmed the MDC filling…
Mugove Tafirenyika SENIOR STAFF WRITER tafirenyikam@dailynews.co.zw MDC bigwigs say they are frustrated by the painfully slow progress towards the much talked about national dialogue — amid claims that authorities are blocking South African officials from returning to the country to assist Zimbabwe end its challenges. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, MDC Alliance vice president Welshman Ncube,…
