HARARE – At the ripe old age of 93, Zimbabwe’s long-serving President, Robert Mugabe, has offered himself as the candidate to lead his ruling Zanu PF party in elections next year. In power since independence from Britain in 1980, Mugabe would be 99 should he win the 2018 election and complete a five-year term. He…
HARARE – My wife took off after our first child…Oh my kind of rambling life wasn’t her kind of style…So I kind of toughed up and learned not to feel…They started calling me the man of steel… These are the lyrics in legendary American singer Hiram William’s timeless classic, Man of Steel. Popularly known as…
HARARE – A pastor at Five Fold Ministries reportedly gave a congregant anointing oil after raping her, in a bid to silence the woman from reporting the abuse. The cleric, 29-year-old Admire Maurukira, was advised to apply for bail at the High Court when he appeared before Harare magistrate Josephine Sande. He is being charged…
HARARE – Human rights groups have re-launched their bid to have the death penalty abolished in Zimbabwe. The country is one of three southern African nations still upholding the harsh penalty. As Zimbabwe commemorated the World Day Against the Death Penalty last week, Veritas, Amnesty International and the Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum canvassed for…
HARARE – As Zimbabwe’s economic crisis deepens, amid infighting in both the ruling Zanu PF party and opposition MDC, Daily News’ assistant editor Maxwell Sibanda sought the church’s view by interviewing Apostolic Christian Council of Zimbabwe (ACCZ) leader Johannes Ndanga, who bemoaned the state of affairs and blamed the leadership for failing to deliver on…
HARARE – War veterans have declared that they would soon take their grievances to the courts, now that their perceived ally Vice President (VP) Emmerson Mnangagwa is no longer Justice minister. Mnangagwa, who has been under fierce attack from the rival Generation (G40) Zanu PF faction allegedly fronted by President Robert Mugabe’s wife, Grace, was…
HARARE – Media groups and opposition parties are worried by the creation of the Cyber Security, Threat Detection and Mitigation ministry — which has raised fears that the government will clamp down on freedom of expression and social media, as Zimbabwe hurtles towards next year’s watershed elections. This comes as President Robert Mugabe has asked…
HARARE – The ferocious fightback in last Wednesday’s explosive Zanu PF politburo meeting by under-fire Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his backers shows that the former liberation movement’s deadly succession wars are far from over, both analysts and party insiders say. Speaking to the Daily News On Sunday yesterday, the analysts also warned that life…
HARARE – A ministerial taskforce set up to investigate the root cause of recent price hikes and panic buying is set to wind up its probe next week, with preliminary results revealing that government blames social media. Industry and Commerce minister Mike Bimha, who is chairing the committee, said investigations had revealed that social media…
HARARE – Zimbabwe has a lot of pending legislative reforms before holding free and fair elections, with a leading legal watchdog calling for wide-sweeping amendments to various statutes which stifle freedom of assembly and debate. Legal and Parliamentary watchdog, Veritas, said it was imperative that the Electoral Act together with the Public Order and Security…
