STATE Security minister Owen Ncube has alleged that the opposition is part of a plot to smuggle guns into the country to topple President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his government from power, the Daily News reports. The Gokwe-Kana legislator also alleged yesterday that the MDC Alliance was part of a group spreading falsehoods that Mnangagwa…
THE dual sitting of judges in the Constitutional Court (ConCourt) and Supreme Court compromised the delivery of justice, with some cases dating back 15 years still pending. This was revealed yesterday at the public interview of would-be ConCourt judges in Harare. The ConCourt was recently separated from the Supreme Court by the Judicial Service Commission,…
THE government has ruled out the holding of by-elections this year due to coronavirus (Covid-19) restrictions, the Daily News reports. This comes as the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has set December 5 as a possible date for local authorities and National Assembly by-elections. In an interview with the Daily News yesterday, Parliamentary Affairs minister Ziyambi…
THE Daily News has been a lone voice over the past few months in highlighting the folly of the country’s opposition engaging in self-immolation, and taking counsel from dubious characters. For this fair and spot-on reporting stance, we have received ill-conceived flak from a few misguided opposition leaders and their cheerleaders — among them unprincipled “journalists” and…
AS THE vicious factional wars that are tearing apart Zimbabwe’s main opposition plumb new lows with each passing day, political analysts say the MDC may have reached the end of the road in its current incarnation, the Daily News reports. In addition, they say, both Thokozani Khupe and Nelson Chamisa,, have to take responsibility for…
HIGH Court Judge Justice Martin Makonese has thrown away an application by local activists who had sought an interdict barring President Emmerson Mnangagwa from conducting exhumation and reburials of victims of Gukurahundi atrocities of the 1980s. The applicants, who included Gukurahundi survivor Charles Thomas, Zapu and Ibhetshu LikaZulu, recently filed an urgent High Court application…
MDC Alliance Harare West legislator Joana Mamombe, has filed an urgent chamber application challenging her detention at Harare remand prison pending mental examination by government doctors. Mamombe was last Thursday placed in the custody of the superintendent at the prison by Harare regional magistrate Bianca Makwande after the State had argued that she must…
FIREBRAND MDC Alliance deputy national chairperson, Job “Wiwa” Sikhala, says the struggle for a just and better Zimbabwe for all will never be derailed by the alleged persecution of individuals like him by the State. Speaking in an interview with the Daily News On Sunday yesterday, the larger-than-life Zengeza West legislator also vowed that…
CRIMINAL Investigation Department (CID) boss, Crispen Charumbira, will spend the next fortnight in remand prison following his court appearance on corruption charges yesterday. Charumbira, the national director at the CID, allegedly interfered with lawful arrests by ordering his subordinates to abort some criminal investigations. He was represented by Tabson Bvekwa and Sylvester Hashiti when he…
LARGER than life MDC Alliance vice chairperson Job Sikhala was last week released on bail from Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison after spending nearly five weeks in remand custody on allegations of inciting public violence before the foiled July 31 demonstration. The Daily News on Sunday Senior Staff Writer Blessings Mashaya caught up with Sikhala who…
