THE bitter truth is that the current crop of opposition leaders in the country just don’t have the capacity to give the ruling Zanu PF a run for its money. So reiterates the downhearted former national chairperson of the then united MDC, Lovemore Moyo, who further charges that all opposition leaders can’t fill the “big…
HARD-PRESSED Zimbabweans say they will only fully appreciate the ZiG when their lives improve markedly and the currency can pay for all goods and services. Speaking to the Daily News — the country’s most influential newspaper — key stakeholders said yesterday that current market realities made it difficult for them to fully value the utility…
POLITICAL EDITOR mashayab@dailynews.co.zw EFFORTS to revive and unite the country’s opposition so that it can once again give the ruling Zanu PF a run for its money in elections are being frustrated by power hungry rival leaders. So say opposition stalwarts, Lovemore Moyo and Morgen Komichi, who stress that as long as there is no…
ZANU PF chief whip Pupurai Togarepi has urged legislators to prioritise development initiatives over politics to stimulate the country’s economic growth. Speaking at a Mudzi West Constituency field day at the weekend, Togarepi stressed the need for MPs to play a leading role in growing the economy and addressing pressing development challenges. “As representatives of…
POLITICAL EDITOR mashayab@dailynews.co.zw ZANU PF bigwigs are stepping up their push to persuade an unenthusiastic President Emmerson Mnangagwa to remain in power beyond the expiration of his tenure in office in 2028. Speaking to the Daily News — the country’s most influential newspaper — Zanu PF director for information, Farai Marapira, confirmed yesterday that senior…
POLITICAL EDITOR mashayab@dailynews.co.zw UNDER the cosh authorities have implored both business and ordinary citizens to assist in finding lasting solutions to the country’s enduring power crisis. Speaking in Parliament on Wednesday, the deputy minister of Energy, Yeukai Simbanegavi, effectively conceded then that the government would not be able to get on top of the country’s…
THE ruling Zanu PF is cracking down on some of its affiliates for allegedly promoting factionalism and divisions within the former liberation movement. Speaking to the Daily News — the country’s most influential newspaper — Zanu PF insiders revealed yesterday that party bosses who met representatives of the affiliates in Harare on Tuesday had rapped…
IT HAS emerged that the government is also not paying companies that supply vital medicines to the country’s distressed public health sector on time. This was confirmed in the Senate last week by the deputy minister of Health and Childcare, Sleiman Kwidini — at a time that many other government suppliers are battling to get…
POLITICAL EDITOR mashayab@dailynews.co.zw ZANU PF MPs will support the Citizens Coalition for Change’s (CCC) motion in Parliament this week on national dialogue, meant to find long-lasting solutions to Zimbabwe’s decades-long political and economic challenges. So confirmed the ruling party’s chief whip Pupurai Togarepi yesterday, who told the Daily News — the country’s most influential newspaper…
POLITICAL EDITOR mashayab@dailynews.co.zw ZIMBABWE is pushing for international financial institutions to relax lending conditions to ease the burden on developing countries, which are struggling with crippling debts, deputy Finane Minister Kudakwashe Mnangagwa has said. “We cannot depend on a global financial architecture that was established for a world that existed 80 years ago,” he said…
