ZANU PF has now moved to forbid the pushing of the contentious 2030 slogan that calls for President Emmerson Mnangagwa to remain in office beyond 2028.The ruling party’s national political commissar, Munyaradzi Machacha, confirmed to the Daily News at the weekend that the former liberation movement had shelved the slogan with immediate effect.This comes as…
WAR veterans have warned that attempts by “mafikizolos” (Johnny-come-latelies in politics) to drive a wedge between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and VP Constantino Chiwenga will be resisted robustly. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, the newly-elected secretary general of the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA), Sam Parerenyatwa, said ex-combatants were very angry over the…
POLITICAL EDITORmashayab@dailynews.co.zw POLITICAL analysts have applauded President Emmerson Mnangagwa for the way he handled the 2030 campaign by Zanu PF’s members at the party’s annual conference in Bulawayo at the weekend. At the same time, Zanu PF bigwigs say they will continue to galvanise members of the party and Zimbabweans at large in the push…
THIS past weekend’s cordial war veterans’ congress in Gweru signalled the spirit under which the party’s forthcoming annual conference should proceed. So says Zanu PF spokesperson Christopher Mutsvangwa, who adds that there will be no room whatsoever for party members to push petty factional agendas when they gather in Bulawayo next week. Speaking to the…
THE leader of the opposition in Parliament, Sengezo Tshabangu, says he holds all the keys to Welshman Ncube’s leadership ambitions within the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC). Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, Tshabangu’s spokesperson Nqobizitha Mlilo warned that Ncube risked being excluded completely from participating in the CCC’s pending congress, unless he behaved himself…
THE Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) faces total implosion after efforts to heal the widening rift between its interim leader Welshman Ncube and Sengezo Tshabangu collapsed. CCC spokesperson, Willias Madzimure, confirmed to the Daily News yesterday that all efforts to engage with Tshabangu and map the way forward had failed. At the same time, there…
THE continuing senseless infighting among the country’s opposition leaders has virtually ended any hopes of the ruling party being given a run for its money by its political opponents in the 2028 national elections, analysts have reiterated. Speaking to the Daily News On Sunday at the weekend, political experts added that as a result of…
OPPOSITION stalwarts remain very concerned that time is running out for Zanu PF’s fractured rivals to make a decent fist of the 2028 national elections. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, former MDC kingpins Lovemore Moyo and Morgen Komichi warned that the country’s warring opposition was at risk of receiving another heavy shellacking at the…
ZANU PF says the country’s opposition must first put their house in order before approaching the ruling party for dialogue. Speaking to the Daily News On Sunday at the weekend, Zanu PF information director Farai Marapira added that the former liberation movement would also not engage with opposition leaders if they continued to “thrive on…
IT IS risky for authorities to sanction the selling of fuel in ZiG at the moment, as doing so could cause shortages in the country, the minister of Finance, Mthuli Ncube, has said. Speaking in the National Assembly on Wednesday, Ncube said the last thing that Zimbabwe needed was a fresh disruption of the delicate…
