AS preparations for next year’s general elections gather pace, Zanu PF has embarked on an extraordinary recruitment drive after setting up structures in churches, hospitals and schools in a bid to retain power. Speaking to Zanu PF affiliates at the party headquarters last week, ruling party national political commissar Mike Bimha said the party was…
PARLIAMENT has said the government must increase funding for soldiers and the police as they are facing challenges purchasing enough uniforms and an adequate supply of rations and fuel, among other items. In a post-budget report that the Defence and Home Affairs committee presented to Parliament on Thursday, legislators said the budget was insufficient to…
PARLIAMENT has urged Zesa to charge realistic prices and to find ways of earning more foreign currency to help the embattled power utility to procure sufficient electricity for both ordinary consumers and business. In a post-2023 budget report presented in Parliament on Wednesday by the Energy and Power Development committee, legislators noted that the current…
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) leader, Nelson Chamisa has yielded to the demands of his defiant MPs over the controversial US$40 000 parliamentary housing loans to legislators. Insiders who spoke to the Daily News yesterday said by capitulating to his MPs’ demands, Chamisa had avoided creating fresh major rifts in his fledgling party.Some of the…
THE row over Parliament’s controversial US$40 000 housing loans to legislators is escalating within the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), which will hold a crunch meeting in Harare today between party leader Nelson Chamisa, pictured, and the defiant MPs. Several party legislators who met Chamisa on Friday told the Daily News yesterday that the CCC…
PEOPLE with disabilities (PWDs) are set to launch an organisation which is meant to support President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s bid for a second term of office in next year’s general elections. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, Kadoma businessman Jimayi Muduvuri, who is known for helping people living with disabilities under the Muduvuri Rehabilitation and Empowerment…
ALTHOUGH Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) bigwigs remain keen to meet with President Emmerson Mnangagwa ahead of the 2023 national elections, this is not likely to happen, presidential spokesperson George Charamba has said. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, Charamba said the window of opportunity for such a meeting had passed, and Mnangagwa was now…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is focusing on his work and is not losing any sleep over ambitions by the multiplicity of political rivals who harbour aspirations to take over from him after the crunch 2023 elections. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, after former Zanu PF bigwig and Cabinet minister Saviour Kasukuwere vocalised his presidential ambitions…
ANXIOUS church leaders have reiterated their call for national dialogue ahead of next year’s crunch harmonised elections to ensure peace in the country. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, the secretary-general of the Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops Conference, Frederick Chiromba, — who is also a member of the Zimbabwe Heads Of Christian Denominations (ZHOCD) — said…
AUTHORITIES will today deliberate on how to mitigate the worsening power crisis in the country, amid growing calls for increased investment in more reliable and clean electricity generation plants. At the same time, former Energy ministers in the short-lived 2009 government of national unity— Elias Mudzuri and Elton Mangoma — urged authorities to re-ignite plans…
