PARLIAMENTARIANS have taken Finance minister Mthuli Ncube to task over claims of budget surplus, demanding a breakdown of how the money was used, saying the situation on the ground contradicted assertions that the government had excess money. Norton Independent MP Temba Mliswa this week asked deputy Speaker Tsitsi Gezi to summon Ncube to the National…
ZANU PF says it has no appetite to get involved in the affairs of South Africa’s ruling party, the African National Congress (ANC), where President Cyril Ramaphosa is at loggerheads with suspended secretary-general Ace Magashule. This comes as Ramaphosa and the ANC have been pressing to end Zimbabwe’s long-standing challenges — which were recently brought…
THE government has a serious headache over public transport challenges and is now considering withdrawing intercity buses to bridge the deficit in urban areas. Local Government minister July Moyo, pictured, told legislators in the National Assembly on Wednesday that they are looking at various options to address the transport situation. “I will admit that if…
HOME Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe, pictured, said the recent surge in child murders is worrisome and has appealed to the public to work together with law enforcement agents to stop the killings. Speaking in the National Assembly yesterday, Kazembe said the police were doing their best to stop the killings which were ritually-motivated in most…
THERE is no let up to the senseless infighting consuming the country’s opposition, with MDC supporters belonging to different factions involved in ugly scenes at the weekend. Yesterday, officials from the two dominant factions of the country’s main opposition traded accusations and counter accusations over the chaotic scenes which led to police intervening in the…
IN AN ominous message for the opposition, Zanu PF says it wants all people who have supported the West’s sanctions on Zimbabwe to be barred from taking part in the 2023 polls. In that light, the ruling party says, it wants a provision — barring the likes of MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa — inserted…
ZIMBABWE’S never-ending political and economic crises are blamed on the failure by President Emmerson Mnangagwa, the opposition, civil society and the church to have an all-inclusive dialogue to hammer out solutions. Forthright former Zanu PF spokesperson and the only surviving member of then Zanu’s Dare reChimurenga (the party’s 1970s war council), Rugare Gumbo, believes mistrust…
LIBERATION struggle stalwart and one of the founders of Zanu PF, Rugare Gumbo, says the removal of the running mate clause from the country’s Constitution could come back to haunt the ruling party which has historically struggled with succession. Speaking to the Daily News On Sunday yesterday, Gumbo — who is the only surviving member…
ARMED robbers are using police and army uniforms to rob tobacco farmers at night in the capital, the police have warned. The police said gangs of robbers moving in unregistered vehicles were targeting farmers taking their harvest to tobacco auction floors at night. The police warning follows an incident in which five farmers were robbed…
