MORE chaos hit the Citizens Coalition for Change(CCC)’s unconventional primaries for its aspiring MPs and councillors for this year’s crunch national elections at the weekend. This boiled over into violent clashes among the party’s supporters in Marondera, Zaka and Norton, among other places, as unhappy followers of rival candidates squared up to each other. The…
POWER utility Zesa says it has put in place enough mechanisms to make sure winter wheat farmers are not affected by power cuts. In a statement yesterday, Zesa stakeholder relations, communication and welfare general manager George Manyaya said they wanted to help the government to achieve its wheat targets. “Subsequent to the recent update on…
ZANU PF’s security department will keep a beady eye on all the party’s aspiring MPs and councillors, in a bid to avoid another ‘Bhora Musango’ (internal sabotage) in this year’s national elections. Speaking to the Daily News at the weekend, Zanu PF secretary for security in the politburo, Lovemore Matuke, confirmed that the former liberation…
THE estranged husband of Bona, daughter of the late former president Robert Mugabe, Simba Chikore, claims he is not after the multi-million-dollar assets, which include a substantial sum of cash, that his wife acquired prior to their marriage in 2014. In his High Court papers filed last week, Chikore listed at least 21 farms and…
WAR veterans have reignited their push to have former first lady Grace Mugabe surrender the two dozen or so farms that her family allegedly owns in Mashonaland Central Province alone. In this light, the former freedom fighters plan to toyi-toyi at government offices this week, in a bid to force authorities to agree to their…
VICE President Constantino Chiwenga’s former wife, Marry Mubaiwa, has filed another court appeal in South Africa in a bid to stop the sale of her properties in the neighbouring country. Mubaiwa is seeking to stay an order granted in the Pretoria High Court last year for the seizure of her mansion and two top-of-the-range Land…
ZANU PF has rubbished Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops’ Conference (ZCBC)’s fears that this year’s national polls will be disputed owing to, among other things, lack of electoral reforms, insisting the country had capacity to have credible polls. This comes as the ZCBC has expressed worry that the failure by the country’s political leaders as well as…
INFLUENTIAL Catholic clerics fear that this year’s crunch elections could be disputed again, especially seeing that the scope for national dialogue appears to have passed. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, the new secretary-general of the Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops’ Conference (ZCBC), Tryvis Moyo, said the failure by the country to institute all needed electoral reforms…
ZANU PF says it will back electoral reform proposals from the opposition as long as these are “reasonable” and do not have the potential to tarnish this year’s harmonised elections. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, Zanu PF chief whip Pupurai Togarepi said ruling party legislators were ready to accommodate “reasonable suggestions” from the opposition…
ZANU PF has whipped its aspiring legislators into refraining from perpetrating violence and ordering them to preach peace as they hit the campaign trail in their constituencies ahead of this year’s harmonised elections. This comes after President Emmerson Mnangagwa had, on several occasions, implored citizens not to fight over the polls. Speaking to the Daily…
