GOVERNMENT yesterday came out guns blazing saying local councils must stop giving undeveloped land to home seekers, arguing this has led to an increase in land barons. Speaking to the Daily News on Sunday yesterday, permanent secretary in the ministry of Presidential Affairs Tafadzwa Muguti said there was no room for land barons. “His Excellency…
THE Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) is reigniting the opposition’s push for dialogue with Zanu PF, in a bid to help fix the country’s myriad challenges. Speaking to the Daily News at the weekend, CCC spokesperson Nqobizitha Mlilo said it was pointless at this stage to focus on politics when the majority of Zimbabweans were…
A MAJOR shake-up is looming in the ruling Zanu PF, amid growing calls for the former liberation movement to do more to resolve the country’s Zim dollar, prices and salaries crisis. Well-placed sources who spoke to the Daily News yesterday confirmed that sweeping changes were in the offing in the party, which would likely see…
ZANU PF has readmitted its expelled former bigwigs. Some of the members who were readmitted after being jettisoned for various reasons include former Cabinet ministers Ignatius Chombo and Petronella Kagonye as well as former MP for Chivi South, Killer Zivhu, among several members. Zanu PF spokesperson Christopher Mutsvangwa yesterday confirmed that the party had readmitted…
THE United Kingdom (UK) says Zimbabwe is a country with great potential which needs to foster national unity, openness and accountability to lift it out of its current economic challenges. Speaking during a debate on Zimbabwe in the House of Lords last week, British minister of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, Tariq Mahmood…
AUTHORITIES yesterday poohpoohed claims that they ill-treated American citizens who were deported after recently travelling to the country. This comes after Washington accused Harare of violating international law following the deportation of United States Agency for International Development (USAid) workers. USAid claimed that the affected workers were subjected to “overnight detention, transportation in unsafe conditions,…
PARLIAMENT is set to write warning letters to ministers who fail to come for sittings with some senior government officials going for more than six months without providing responses to written questions from backbenchers. Speaking in the National Assembly last week, Zanu PF chief whip Pupurai Togarepi said it was appropriate for Parliament to take…
THE Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) will not participate in the upcoming by-elections, as it is focusing its efforts on stabilising the party and the institution of key electoral reforms in the country. In that regard, the party confirmed yesterday that one of its vice presidents and former Harare East MP, Tendai Biti, would not…
POLICE have been prompted to engage traditional leaders, church and other stakeholders across the country amid concerns over rising murder cases. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, police spokesperson Paul Nyathi said law enforcement agents were worried that, if unchecked, murder cases would go out of hand. “Some of these murder cases are being caused…
ZANU PF has pledged to stand with South Africa’s governing African National Congress (ANC) in making sure that they will not bow down to the United States’ “bullying tactics”. ANC is under attack from the US and its allies after it recently dragged Israel to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) over the ongoing Gaza…
