ZANU PF is cranking up the heat on the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), with the ruling party reiterating yesterday that the new kid on the block should be excluded from next year’s crunch polls because it does not have a constitution. Speaking to the Daily News two weeks after the former liberation movement similarly…
AUTHORITIES are stepping up their efforts to stabilise the prices of basic goods in the country, with Treasury recently announcing further new measures to tame the rampant foreign currency parallel market. In this regard, Finance permanent secretary George Guvamatanga has temporarily suspended the disbursement of funds to all ministries, constitutional commissions and other government departments…
GOVERNMENT has committed to embark on radical economic changes, saying it is the only way for it to achieve its vision 2030 targets. In his opening remarks during the Zimbabwe Economic Development Conference in Victoria Falls yesterday, deputy Finance minister Clemence Chiduwa, pictured, said there is a need for new strategies for the country to…
FORMER Zanu PF national political commissar Saviour Kasuuwere yesterday said it is high time for Zimbabwe to end toxic politics in order for the country to attain its developmental goals. In his National Heroes Day message, the self-exiled Kasukuwere, a former cabinet minister under the late former president Robert Mugabe’s government, said the country is…
INCARCERATED Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) interim vice chairperson, Job Sikhala, and his comrades have suffered a setback in their bid to be represented by international lawyers, after authorities said yesterday the jurists were not welcome in country. Sikhala, fellow MP Godfrey Sithole and 14 others have been languishing in remand prison since June this…
THE ruling Zanu PF has reiterated that it will not hold talks with the opposition, including on much-needed electoral reforms, outside the government’s Political Actors Dialogue (Polad) platform. Polad is a platform where President Emmerson Mnagagwa regularly meets with the leaders of small opposition parties who contested him in the 2018 presidential election. Responding to…
IN A push that spells trouble for the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), Zanu PF says it wants all political parties without formalised structures to be barred from contesting next year’s crunch national elections. Tough-talking Zanu PF secretary for Finance, Patrick Chinamasa, told the Daily News yesterday that it would be “wrong” to allow the…
THE factional demons which have been ravaging the ruling Zanu PF were in full view in Masvingo this past weekend following bloody clashes among rival groups. So bad was the violence which was witnessed at Masvingo Polytechnic, as the region met to choose a new provincial youth leader, that party bosses were later forced to…
OUTSPOKEN preacher Talent Chiwenga has questioned Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) head Nelson Chamisa’s leadership credentials, as well as his appetite and capacity to take on the ruling Zanu PF. Speaking during his Sunday church service at the weekend, the fearless cleric also criticised Chamisa for consistently manifesting cowardice while his lieutenants such as Job…
IN A welcome call, one of the interim vice presidents of the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), Tendai Biti, has appealed to Zimbabweans to shun toxic politics and work together for the development of the country. Speaking in the National Assembly on Tuesday, in a passionate plea for peace and unity, the Harare East MP…
