WITH Zanu PF continuing to reel from its long-standing internal wars, party bigwigs are moving with more urgency to lance these divisions as the 2023 national elections loom ever closer. Party secretary for security, Lovemore Matuke, confirmed to the Daily News yesterday that senior officials were now fed up with the infighting, prompting them to work more…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa announced yesterday that he had appointed his powerful vice president, Constantino Chiwenga, to lead the turnaround of Zimbabwe’s ailing State-owned enterprises (SOEs) — which are beset by maladministration and corruption. But what caught the eye the most, even as this appeared to be said in jest, was how Mnangagwa emphasised Chiwenga’s military…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday conferred national hero status on former Two Infantry Brigade commander, retired major general Clever Shadreck Chiramba, who passed away due to Covid-19-related complications on Sunday. Chiramba, 66, left the army in 2004 to pursue his farming business. He was at the helm of Two Infantry Brigade during Zimbabwe’s intervention in the…
THE government has denied claims it is sheltering under-fire King Mswati III of Eswatini, who reportedly fled his home country following violent…
ZANU PF has called upon the government to stop demolitions of illegal structures across the country after an outcry from affected families…
THE divisions that have been wracking Zanu PF in recent months are showing no signs of letting up, with party members in Mashonaland East and Harare now also consumed by the ugly factionalism. As usual, much of the infighting centres over the much feared presence and influence of suspected members of the Generation 40 (G40)…
ALL indications are that the country’s much-talked-about national dialogue is edging ever closer, with authoritative sources telling the Daily News On Sunday yesterday that President Emmerson Mnangagwa and opposition leader Douglas Mwonzora were happy with National Assembly Speaker, Jacob Mudenda, being the mediator for the mooted talks. Contacted for a comment, Mudenda himself would neither…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa and MDC leader Douglas Mwonzora have agreed to join forces to canvass support from other African countries for Chief Fortune Charumbira’s Pan-African Parliament (PAP) presidency bid. Charumbira will battle it out with Haidara Aichata Cisse from Mali and South Sudan’s Albino Mathom Ayuel Aboug when PAP reconvenes in October to choose a…
ZANU PF acting-political commissar Patrick Chinamasa has threatened to go after and deregister non-governmental organisations (NGOs) deemed hostile to Zimbabwe and are pushing a regime change agenda. This comes as the ruling party and President Emmerson Mnanagwa’s government has come under constant criticism especially from human rights-based NGOs and civic society over a number of…
OPPOSITION leader Douglas Mwonzora says despite the efforts by “a few people” to the contrary, national dialogue is the only sure way of forging national unity and curing the country’s long history of disputed polls. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, Mwonzora also observed that the current polarisation and deep-seated divisions in the country made holding…
