ENERGY minister Zhemu Soda says Zimbabwe is now importing 500 megawatts of electricity from neighbouring countries to mitigate the country’s never-ending power crisis. Speaking in the Senate last week, the minister said the government was, however, doing everything within its capacity to end the power crisis, which has resulted in industry, commerce and ordinary consumers…

ZANU PF says it will intensify its cell verification exercise starting this week to do away with dubious structures created along factional lines. In a statement yesterday, the Zanu PF political commissar, Mike Bimha directed all provinces to start preparing for the exercise, adding the ruling party’s Politburo members will superintend the process.Zanu PF’s cells…

AUTHORITIES will throw the book at everyone who breaks the law in the country regardless of their political affiliation, Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi has said. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, amid charges that the government was clamping down on the opposition ahead of Zimbabwe’s crunch national elections this year, Ziyambi said the law was…

CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) leader, Nelson Chamisa, wants President Emmerson Mnangagwa and other political leaders to settle their differences in the interests of the country and its citizens. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, Chamisa also said the country still had enough time to hold needed political dialogue ahead of this year’s crunch national…

THE government has reiterated that this year’s national elections will proceed as scheduled because the law has no provisions which allow for the postponement of the crunch harmonised polls. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi emphasised that the government had no plans “whatsoever” to postpone the elections, adding that relevant ministries…

ZANU PF says it will trigger by-elections in seats where its MPs and councillors poll more votes than President Emmerson Mnangagwa in this year’s crunch elections, as the party bids to steal a march on the scourge of Bhora Musango (internal sabotage). Addressing party supporters in Zaka, Masvingo, at the weekend, Zanu PF secretary for…

POLITICAL analysts have joined the growing clamour in the country for this year’s fast approaching harmonised elections to be postponed, to allow Zimbabwe to heal and needed national dialogue to take place first. Speaking to the Daily News On Sunday yesterday, the analysts said holding the polls without instituting key electoral reforms and dealing with…

ZESA is still not ready to switch on its new 300 megawatt generator in Hwange, as the under pressure power utility takes a cautious approach to bringing the long-awaited Unit 7 into operation. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, deputy Energy minister Magna Mudyiwa said as a result, authorities had increased electricity imports from the…

SOME legislators have added their voices to calls to postpone this year’s national polls, saying this would allow the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) to fix the flaws in its draft delimitation report, while also allowing the country to recover from Covid’s effects. This comes after the Zimbabwe Council of Churches (ZCC) recently joined some opposition…

AS ZIMBABWE hurtles towards this year’s crunch national elections, Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa has once again appealed for political tolerance in the country. At the same time, MDC bigwig Morgen Komichi is escalating his push for inclusive national dialogue ahead of the fast-approaching polls, to help heal divisions and move the…