PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has reiterated that Zimbabwe will not yield to undue pressure from Western powers, lashing them for allegedly seeking to effect regime change in the country. Speaking at the burial of the late Harare Provincial Affairs minister Oliver Chidawu at the National Heroes Acre yesterday, Mnangagwa also called on Zimbabweans to remain resolute…

NEW fissures are emerging in Zanu PF after war veterans in Mashonaland Central wrote to the party leadership complaining against some district coordinating committee (DCC) members allegedly attempting to rig upcoming ex-combatants league elections. This comes as the ruling party is set to dissolve some structures which were established by the party’s secretary for ex-combatants…

GUTSY former leader of liberation war veterans, Jabulani Sibanda, has warned Zanu PF members to ditch tribal and factional politics in the interest of the country and to allow the ruling party to win next year’s crunch national elections. Addressing Zanu PF’s social media activists, known as Varakashi in Bindura at the weekend, Sibanda —…

RAMPANT factionalism and endless bickering will remain a major feature of local political parties, until they improve their internal democratic processes and deal decisively with the thorny issue of succession, analysts say. Speaking to the Daily News On Sunday yesterday, the analysts said it was particularly striking that all local political parties did not seem…

PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa will seek to serve a second term in office, and will not be challenged at the Zanu PF congress scheduled for October this year, his spokesperson George Charamba said yesterday. Speaking to the Daily News in the light of sustained claims of fissures between Mnangagwa and Vice President Constantino Chiwenga, Charamba also emphasised that…

ZANU PF says the clergy, political parties and civil society pushing for inclusive national dialogue must engage President Emmerson Mnangagwa and the party directly, as opposed to issuing public statements. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, Zanu PF director of Information Tafadzwa Mugwadi said this was a more productive route to take, especially as Mnangagwa’s office was…

PUBLIC sector workers who are digging in on their demands for better salaries vowed yesterday to press on with their planned strike despite moves by the government to further improve their pay. They said the new salary increment of nearly 150 percent offered by their employer was not good enough and meant to divide them….

THE government will today hold crucial talks with on edge public sector workers in a last-ditch attempt to avert a crippling strike…

THE government’s latest economic measures continue to come under heavy scrutiny, with legislators imploring authorities this week to intervene again urgently to cushion the poor from their growing hardships. Speaking in the Senate on Thursday, MDCs senators Morgen Komichi and Khaliphani Phugeni said impoverished Zimbabweans were hurting badly, which obliged the government to come up…

ZIMBABWE should brace for social media warfare with the country’s major political parties already fine tuning their communication media strategies to outwit each other ahead of the much-anticipated elections next year, analysts say. This comes as the ruling Zanu PF party is training their social media activists ahead of the polls in order to counter…