IT REMAINS to be seen whether a cordial interaction between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair in Rwanda this week will help to mend Zimbabwe’s frosty relationship with the United Kingdom (UK). This comes after the two men appeared to go out of their way to be nice to each other…

IT IS looking increasingly unlikely that the ruling Zanu PF and the opposition will agree on much-debated electoral reforms ahead of the fast-approaching 2023 harmonised elections. This has caught the under-pressure opposition on the horns of a dilemma — where they have to choose between two equally difficult choices: to participate in, or to boycott…

THE Consumer Council of Zimbabwe (CCZ) says it has begun to witness welcome reductions in the prices of some basic goods — including cooking oil and flour — on the back of falling month-on-month inflation and the easing foreign currency parallel market. At the same time, many Zimbabweans who spoke to the Daily News yesterday,…

PRESIDENTIAL spokesperson George Charamba says Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa will rue squandering the opportunity to hold dialogue with President Emmerson Mnangagwa and other political leaders when there was such a window.  Speaking to the Daily News On Sunday at the weekend, Charamba also said that the dialogue ship had since “sailed”…

PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is mulling a review of the proposed high fees that presidential and legislative hopefuls are set to be charged when they take part in next year’s national elections. This comes amid an outcry from aspirant candidates who have described the US$20 000 and the US$1 000 that presidential hopefuls and parliamentary contestants…

AUTHORITIES insisted at the weekend that there was nothing amiss about the proposed high fees that presidential and legislative hopefuls will be charged to take part in the crunch 2023 national elections, saying “democracy comes at a cost”. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, amid opposition unhappiness about the new cost of participating in polls,…

THE ongoing elections for Zanu PF’s war veterans league are exacerbating the ruling party’s factional fights, with the polls almost turning violent in Mashonaland Central last weekend. This comes as the former liberation movement is currently constituting its newly formed ex-combatants’ league, ahead of Zanu PF’s elective congress which is scheduled for October 26 to…

GOKWE Nembudziya MP Justice Mayor Wadyajena who was arrested together with Cottco executives, in an alleged scandal that saw over US$5 million being siphoned from the firm, has been granted $200 000 bail and ordered to surrender title deeds as surety. Wadyajena is alleged to have acquired 25 trucks from Cottco money that was sent…