HARARE – Opinion was over the weekend split on whether President Robert Mugabe and his outspoken wife, Grace, could do “a Mujuru” on Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who was the target of their acerbic tongue-lashing in Chinhoyi on Saturday. Ahead of the ruling party’s congress in 2014, Mugabe and his wife went on a warpath…
HARARE – Government is violating public service regulations by keeping in its employ bureaucrats who are way past their pensionable age, the Daily News can report. Civil service regulations on pensionable age and retirement, state that a member appointed on pensionable terms of service before May 1, 1992, shall have a pensionable age of 65…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe must order the arrest of suspected Zanu PF terror gangs that he recently disowned while addressing a rally in Lupane, social and political analysts contend. At the Lupane presidential youth interface rally, Mugabe said: “I hear there are groups that are moving around beating people. No, that is not our…
HARARE – War veterans from ZNLWVA have threatened to take the war to President Robert Mugabe if he does not resolve the thorny succession issue their way. This comes as permanent secretary in the ministry of War Veterans Walter Tapfumaneyi told the State-controlled media that Mugabe would soon meet war veterans. Matemadanda told the Daily…
HARARE – War veterans have threatened to take the law into their hands if police do not arrest First Lady Grace Mugabe who last called on President Robert Mugabe to name a successor. The angry former freedom fighters under the banner Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA) said they would storm the Zanu PF…
HARARE – Zanu PF youths have thrown the gauntlet to the ruling party bigwigs saying everyone but President Robert Mugabe will be challenged in the primary elections ahead of next year’s elections. With Mugabe the only one who has been endorsed as Zanu PF candidate for the 2018 elections — his deputies Phelekezela Mphoko and…
HARARE – National Vendors Union Zimbabwe (Navuz) chairperson Sten Zvorwadza said vendors must play a leading role in the formation of the coalition. Zvorwadza who is currently in the United Kingdom mobilising people to prepare for 2018 watershed elections said opposition parties must accept the need to work together with citizens for them to win…
HARARE – As the Zanu PF succession debate gathers momentum ahead of the 2018 elections, there has been mixed feelings on how the local media has captured its dynamics. The Daily News caught up with analysts and media practitioners to find out how they rate the media’s performance when it came to reporting on the…
HARARE – The Morgan Tsvangirai-led MDC has accepted the invitation by war veterans to join hands and stop what they called the creation of a dynasty by President Robert Mugabe and his wife Grace. Reacting to Grace’s publicly expressed statements that the increasingly-frail Mugabe should anoint a successor during a Zanu PF women’s league meeting…
HARARE – As the country hurtles towards the crunch 2018 harmonised elections, there are fears that the polls would be marred by political violence. This comes as there are renewed fears that the debilitating violence that rocked the country when the ruling party lost the 2008 elections could flare up again. With the scourge of…
