HARARE – Under-fire Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his allies apparently came out guns blazing against Higher Education minister Jonathan Moyo at Wednesday’s tense politburo meeting in Harare — presenting “hard visual and video evidence” of the latter’s alleged anti-Zanu PF shenanigans. Well-placed sources told the Daily News yesterday that the fierce assault on Moyo…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe demoted former Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa while he was in Washington attending an annual global meeting of Finance ministers and central bankers organised by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank. Chinamasa, who was demoted to the ministry of Cyber Security, Threat Detection and Mitigation, was recalled from the…
HARARE – Harare City Council (HCC) and the Zimbabwe Republic Police yesterday implemented a high-handed blitz against vendors in the city centre targeted at removing all hawkers. The blitz, which started off around the Market Square area, rounded up traders in the greater parts of downtown Harare. Riot police used water cannon salvoes to scatter…
HARARE – Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa has broken his silence on the damaging claims that he forced legendary broadcaster Godfrey Majonga to jump from a high-rise apartment in Harare 30 years ago, after he allegedly caught him with a woman said to have been romantically-linked with the under-fire VP. Well-placed sources told the Daily News…
HARARE – Under-fire Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his allies apparently came out guns blazing against Higher Education minister Jonathan Moyo at Wednesday’s tense politburo meeting in Harare — presenting “hard visual and video evidence” of the latter’s alleged anti-Zanu PF shenanigans. Well-placed sources told the Daily News yesterday that the fierce assault on Moyo…
BULAWAYO – Analysts here have waded into the recent Cabinet reshuffle that saw two ministers from the Matabeleland region being dropped. Among those dropped were former War Veterans minister Tshinga Dube and former Rural Development minister Abednico Ncube — both from Matabeleland. Analysts expressed mixed feelings over the departure of the two. Political analyst Dumisani…
HARARE – The State is pursuing a 2001 culpable homicide case in which three Zanu PF activists allegedly murdered a man for refusing to attend a meeting. Tapiwa Chimbandi who was 15 then and Zhuwao Dabson, 36, appeared before Harare regional magistrate Lucy Mungwari to answer to the charges. The pair’s co-accused Samuel Sibiwa has…
HARARE – Former War Veterans minister Tshinga Dube — who was sacked from Cabinet earlier this week — says although he harbours no hard feelings against President Robert Mugabe, he paid the price for being “too honest” and for backing calls for the nonagenarian to name a successor. Dube lost his cushy job together with…
MUTARE – Green Fuel (GF) has come under heavy criticism from irate farmers and grain millers for undermining winter wheat crop in Middle Sabi by refusing to cull millions of quelea birds that roost in the ethanol producer’s sugar cane plantations. GF — co-owned by government — is blocking the Zimbabwe National Parks and Wild…
HARARE – Zimbabwean police on Tuesday arrested Stendrick Zvorwadza, a pro-democracy campaigner and charged him with undermining authority or insulting President Robert Mugabe. He was arrested by detectives from Harare Central Police Station’s Law and Order Section. Zvorwadza, who is the chairperson of the National Vendors Union Zimbabwe, was picked up during a mid-afternoon raid…
