THE chaos that has been long ravaging the opposition reached new depths yesterday after suspended MDC deputy president, Thokozani Khupe, announced a breakaway party. The announcement comes hard on the heels of her surprising suspension by opposition leader Douglas Mwonzora over “taking party issues to court”. Yesterday’s announcement by Khupe came amid continuing warnings by…
B ULAWAYO City Council (BCC) health director Edwin Sibanda has accused Zimbabwean citizens based in South Africa of largely contributing to the…
THE High Court has dismissed, with costs, an application by a legal practitioner challenging the constitutionality of Statutory Instrument 127 of 2021 which prohibited businesses from charging above the official foreign currency exchange rate. Obey Shava, a human rights lawyer, sought to have SI 127/21 declared unconstitutional in its entirety and be set aside. In…
ZESA Holdings(Zesa) has embarked on a nationwide stakeholder engagement tour to discuss the electricity supply situation in the country in a bid to address power supply reliability challenges. This comes as the country has been experiencing power reliability challenges characterised by frequent faults, slow reaction to faults, power outages, long waiting periods for connection, huge…
WITH factionalism continuing to be a major issue in Zanu PF, the ruling party warned yesterday that it would sack all bigwigs caught trying to influence its primaries today, which will choose candidates for the March 26 by-elections. Speaking to the Daily News, Zanu PF secretary for security, Lovemore Matuke, said the party was aware of…
Blessings Mashaya and Mugove Tafirenyika THE MDC faction led by Nelson Chamisa, has dented its democratic credentials by avoiding primary elections to choose candidates for the March 26 by-elections to reward loyalists, analysts have said. This comes after the opposition party’s secretary for elections, Ian Makone, announced last weekend that the outfit’s recalled legislators and councillors…
Andile Tshuma BULAWAYO City Council has embarked on a door-to-door Covid-19 vaccination campaign amid fears that some of the vaccines would soon be rendered useless as they were nearing their expiry dates. The campaign, a partnership between the council’s health services department and the ministry of Health, aims to up the city’s pace towards achieving…
OPPOSITION leader, Douglas Mwonzora, has suspended his deputy, Thokozani Khupe along with her ally Khalipani Phugeni, for “taking party issues to court”. MDC spokesperson Witness Dube yesterday confirmed the development to the Daily News — saying Khupe and Phugeni were suspended last week “She was suspended on January 12 pending investigations …The letter (of suspension) was sent…
ZIMBABWE is mourning another legendary music maestro, Zexie Manatsa, pictured, who succumbed to cancer in Harare yesterday. The much-loved musician-cum-cleric, 78, was diagnosed with multiple myeloma — a type of cancer of the blood — in August last year, and had been in and out of hospital since then. “It is with great sadness that…
ZANU PF has disqualified a number of bigwigs from the former liberation movement’s primary elections tomorrow, which will choose the party’s candidates for the March 26 by-elections. Among those said to have been axed from the internal polls are Kwekwe Central aspiring candidates Kandros Mugabe and Energy Dhala Ncube — who were jettisoned in the…
