HARARE – Zimbabwe is still far from conducting a free and fair election as government drags its feet on putting in place the much-needed electoral reforms that will level the playing field. The country, which is expected to hold harmonised elections between July and August this year, has seen opposition political parties hitting the campaign…
HARARE – Former president Robert Mugabe might lose the privilege of being buried at the prestigious National Heroes Acre where those considered to have contributed immensely to the country’s liberation and country’s development are interred. Zanu PF is up in arms with its former first secretary over his links to the National Patriotic Front (NPF),…
HARARE – Former president Robert Mugabe must be free to engage in political activities he wants and associate with any party he wants to as long as such activities are not treasonous, analysts content. Mugabe and his wife Grace, seem to have angered President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF party after they reportedly “anointed”…
HARARE – MDC leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday drew large crowds at his rally in Murewa yesterday where he defended the decision to fire the party’s former vice president Thokozani Khupe and two other senior officials. Murewa Centre was a sea of red as thousands of MDC supporters, majority who were bussed from Harare, swamped the…
HARARE – ANALYSTS say the MDC will live to regret its failure to resolve its leadership squabbles – which have led the 20-year-old movement to split yet again, less than six months before the country holds its watershed national elections. This comes after the party’s supreme decision-making body in between congresses, the national council, met…
HARARE – The MDC yesterday expelled its deputy president Thokozani Khupe and organising secretary Abdinico Bhebhe and will recall the duo from Parliament with communication set to be sent to government and Parliament over the move. Party spokesperson Obert Gutu was also booted out of the opposition movement. Since the long illness and subsequent death…
HARARE – In a marked departure from its previous tough stance against Zimbabwe, the United States of America has given President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his administration significant encouragement — which should lead to the normalisation of relations between the two countries if Harare manages this year’s watershed elections well. With ousted former president Robert Mugabe’s…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) is failing to locate former police commissioner-general Augustine Chihuri, who has twice failed to appear before Parliament, the Daily News can report. Read full story in today’s paper. [GoogleAd]
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) is failing to locate former police commissioner-general Augustine Chihuri, who has twice failed to appear before Parliament, the Daily News can report. This was revealed by his successor, Godwin Matanga, when he appeared before the on-fire parliamentary portfolio committee on Mines and Energy yesterday. Parliament is eager to…
HARARE – THE Shop Licences Act has been identified as one of the Acts which needs to be revised under the programme of ease of doing business, Parliament heard this week. Legislators said the Shop Licences Act was crafted in 1976 and the Act was last amended in 1988. They said the Act is riddled…
