HARARE – The National Assembly has ratcheted up pressure on President Emmerson Mnangagwa, calling on him to take action against Cabinet ministers accused of improper conduct. Led by Mabvuku Tafara Member of Parliament James Maridadi, the lawmakers were seething with anger on Wednesday over Mnangagwa’s inaction on some of his lieutenants who have been fingered…
HARARE – Zanu PF has hammered the final nails on the political coffins of former Cabinet ministers — Walter Mzembi, Makhosini Hlongwane and Samuel Undenge — when it recalled the trio and eight others from Parliament which duly announced yesterday that they had ceased to be members of the National Assembly. [Adz] Also expelled are…
HARARE – The continued rise in the cost of living is creating serious challenges for the new government which is now faced with fresh demands from civil servants for massive salary adjustments in line with the increase in the breadline. Unions told the Daily News this week that public workers were being driven to the…
HARARE – Former Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) treasurer Roy Bennett has died. He was killed in a tragic helicopter crash in Canada together with his wife Heather. Confirming the deaths, respected lawyer David Coltart tweeted, “I have just confirmed from three reliable sources that Roy and Heather Bennett have been tragically killed in a…
HARARE – The continued rise in the cost of living is creating serious challenges for the new government which is now faced with fresh demands from civil servants for massive salary adjustments in line with the increase in the breadline. Unions told the Daily News this week that public workers were being driven to the…
HARARE – The Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Mines and Energy is putting pressure on government to implement the moribund Gwanda solar energy project with haste, throwing the spotlight on flamboyant businessmen Wicknell Chivayo once more. Chivayo was awarded a $200 million tender to roll out the project which will feed into the national grid to…
HARARE – MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai has counselled his impatient lieutenants who are already looking beyond him that he is still in charge and that his successor will only come through proper party processes. Speaking through his spokesperson, Luke Tamborinyoka, Tsvangirai who is expected home this week from South Africa where he had gone for…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) registered 64 670 new voters in the first five days of a mop-up exercise that opened on January 10, bringing the cumulative total of people registered to vote in this year’s election to about five million. The mop-up exercise was necessitated by low turnout in some provinces and…
MUTARE – As wrangling between conservationists and villagers over why the perimeter fence around Save Valley Conservancy (SVC) no longer exists, the human-wildlife conflict along the nature reserve is taking a huge toll on Chipinge’s rural agricultural economy. Beyond loss of livestock and crops, lives are being lost with the conflicts dragging despairingly into an…
MUTARE – For all its magnificence, Christmas Pass is an engineering mistake that transformed Mutare into a pit-trap. Heavy vehicle mechanical faults — particularly brake failures, are always conspiring devilishly with the human instinct for self-preservation such that drivers are manoeuvring their wheeled missiles down the five-kilometre road into the heavily populated city centre. The…
