HARARE – In a rare challenge to Zimbabwe’s powerful generals, the country’s largest trade union Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Union (ZCTU) has said the military should stop interfering in politics. The trade union said in its Defence Forces Day message that it had noted with consternation the recent utterance and public spat between the Higher…
MUTASA Central MDC legislator Trevor Saruwaka is fretting over Zanu PF Nyanga South MP Supa Mandiwanzira’s campaign posters that are pasted all over a construction vehicle repairing roads in his constituency. The earth mover — owned by Fuel Africa (Pvt) Ltd — was hired to maintain the Jombe Road in Saruwaka’s constituency. Saruwaka said he…
HARARE – A prisoner doing time for rape in Harare Central Prison was convicted yesterday on charges of indecent exposure for masturbating on a colleague in his cell. Farai Makuyana, who has completed eight years of his 10-year jail term, was found guilty by Harare magistrate Victoria Mashamba of sexually assaulting a cell mate. He…
HARARE – MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai yesterday cancelled a crucial standing committee meeting meant to discuss the bloody spate of intra-party violence in Bulawayo that saw deputy president Thokozani Khupe assaulted by party youths. Khupe and some party leaders from the main opposition’s stronghold Matabeleland provinces are said to be not happy with the way…
HARARE – Higher and Tertiary Education minister Jonathan Moyo yesterday stunned journalists when he revealed that influential First Lady Grace Mugabe has pressured government to build a state-of-the-art university to be named after her husband at a cost of $1 billion. The Robert Gabriel Mugabe University would be established at the First Lady’s Manzou Farm…
HARARE – MDC president Morgan Tsvangirai yesterday suspended five members over the violence which occurred at the party’s Bulawayo provincial offices on Sunday which left his deputy Thokozani Khupe and other high-ranking officials nursing wounds. Among those hit with suspensions is disgraced deputy treasurer-general Chalton Hwende who celebrated the attacks on Khupe and senior officials…
HARARE – Emotions have been running high ever since First Lady Grace Mugabe threw the cat among the pigeons by challenging her ageing husband to anoint a successor. Grace took the unprecedented step of nudging her reluctant husband to name his heir-apparent when she addressed members of the Zanu PF women’s league national assembly at…
HARARE – MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai electrified the crowd at the National People’s Party (NPP)’s inaugural convention held in the capital yesterday, where he belaboured his commitment towards working with former vice president Joice Mujuru in order to unseat President Robert Mugabe. The 65-year-old politician, who had been invited to the convention to give a…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) yesterday released “O” and “A” Level results for June 2107. The total number of candidates who sat for the June “A” Level 2017 examination was 4 668 as compared to 4 007 in June 2016, an increase of 16,49 percent. “The number of candidates who obtained Grade…
HARARE – MDC president Morgan Tsvangirai has lost his hair in his latest battle with cancer, telling the Daily News in an exclusive interview on Monday that he feels like he is almost close to regaining full fitness. Tsvangirai has gone through 10 gruelling chemotherapy sessions at a South African hospital since he began treatment…
