THE relentless power cuts ravaging the country are set to worsen in the coming days after Zesa said yesterday it was battling numerous operational challenges, including failing to secure enough coal for its thermal-fired power stations due to a financial crunch. In addition, to the coal problems, the power utility also said five of its…

FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube, pictured, has said despite implementing economic reforms and ease of doing business, Zimbabwe still needed to do more to attract foreign investors. In his 2023 National Budget presented at the new Parliament Building last Thursday, Ncube said Zimbabwe had an unfavourable environment for investors to come compared to other southern African…

OPPOSITION Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) senior official, Tendai Biti, has raised a red flag on the Patriotic Bill, claiming the proposed law was an attempt to close the democratic space ahead of next year’s polls. Speaking to the Daily News on Sunday yesterday, Biti said citizens’ rights to freedom of expression would be infringed…

ZANU PF and the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) have engaged the police in Masvingo Province over ugly scenes of violence that occurred in Gutu recently. This comes after President Emmerson Mnangagwa this week appealed to politicians to protect the country’s current peaceful environment ahead of next year’s elections. The meeting was confirmed by both…

PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is scheduled to make his State of the Nation Address (Sona) in Harare today, amid hopes that he will speak on the country’s relentless power cuts, and also assure Zimbabweans that prices will not go haywire ahead of Christmas. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, the acting executive director of the Consumer…

ZANU PF says the opposition is dragging the much-needed dialogue by allegedly working with foreign nations to sow discord in the country and added that it must denounce sanctions for national talks to be successful. In an interview with the Daily News after their meeting with Zimbabwe Council of Churches (ZCC) recently, Zanu PF secretary…

MDC president Douglas Mwonzora has outsmarted his rivals after the national council elected him uncontested over the weekend, to lead the party for his first five-year term. The party founded by the late Morgan Tsvangirai is due to hold its first ordinary congress after Mwonzora was elected at an extraordinary congress in December last year…

THE apology to Zanu PF members by former ruling party politburo members and alleged Generation 40 (G40) kingpins Jonathan Moyo and Patrick Zhuwao is a significant boost for President Emmerson Mnangagwa ahead of next year’s crunch elections, analysts say. Speaking to the Daily News On Sunday yesterday, the analysts said the conciliatory tone of the…

MORE and more prominent people are adding their voices to the growing calls for inclusive national dialogue ahead of the 2023 polls to help end Zimbabwe’s decades-long myriad challenges. Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) bigwig, Tendai Biti, and exiled former Zanu PF political commissar, Saviour Kasukuwere, are the latest heavyweights to say openly that elections…

WHILE noting the ongoing efforts by authorities to boost the economy, an expert says the government needs to do more to lift businesses and improve the quality of life of longsuffering Zimbabweans. Speaking last night on independent national television channel 3Ktv’s popular current affairs programme, Vantage, prominent economist Gift Mugano said while ordinary Zimbabweans had…