ZANU PF is all out to win this weekend’s by-elections, as the ruling party’s vice presidents will wind up campaigns with some of the party’s bigwigs already camped in various constituencies campaigning. Speaking to the Daily News On Sunday yesterday, Zanu PF political commissar Mike Bimha said the party was poised for an overwhelming victory…
CIVIL servants said yesterday that salaries denominated in US dollars are the only viable option due to the erosion of their earnings caused by price increases and the Zimbabwe dollar’s rapid decline on the black market. This comes as Zimbabweans look set to endure another difficult festive season, as the prices of basic goods continue…
THE government is mulling amendments to the Electoral Act to include a cut-off time for electoral court challenges. This is intended to give the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) enough time to prepare for elections. Speaking in the National Assembly this week, after he was questioned by opposition MPs about why Zec had delayed distributing ballot…
SENGEZO Tshabangu, who asserts that he is the interim secretary-general of the strife-torn Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), says he is now busy preparing for the party’s elective congress. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday as the CCC’s internal wars become more intractable, Tshabangu said he would soon unveil a “roadmap with clear sign posts”…
ZANU PF says a continuous election mode is detrimental to the country’s development as the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) continuously recalls MPs and councillors. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, Zanu PF information director Farai Marapira said after the August harmonised polls, the ruling party had shifted their focus from politics to development,…
POOR Zimbabweans look set to endure another difficult festive season, as the prices of basic goods continue to rise amid the accelerating slump of the Zim dollar on the parallel market. Yesterday, the hapless local unit was trading at an average of 9 000 to the much-coveted American dollar on the black market, although it…
THE country’s opposition parties are making a fresh bid to work together after the ruling Zanu PF once again won the recent harmonised elections at a canter. In this regard, more than 10 opposition parties met in Harare on Friday to hammer out a common position on needed electoral reforms, as well as solutions for…
GOVERNMENT has accused some unscrupulous business entities who are focusing on profiteering for being behind recent price hikes. The business entities have also been accused of destabilising the national economy at a time when civil servants are receiving their annual bonuses. Speaking in the National Assembly last week, Finance deputy minister David Mnangagwa said their…
AUTHORITIES have begun consultations with key stakeholders as the country seeks a viable roadmap towards establishing the Zim dollar as the sole local currency. Speaking in Parliament on Wednesday, the deputy minister of Finance, David Mnangagwa, said these consultations would not affect the current local use of the United States dollar — which has been…
THE country’s floundering opposition has once again been warned that it is headed for total ruin unless its leaders end their futile wars and think more strategically about how to take on the ruling Zanu PF. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, amid the Citizens Coalition for Change’s (CCC) deepening divisions, former MDC stalwarts Elias…
