HARARE – Disgruntled liberation war fighters are on the verge of forming a new political party whose leader would contest their former patron — President Robert Mugabe — at next year’s elections. The war veterans have grown increasingly disillusioned with Zanu PF’s rule and the fact that they are no longer at the centre of…
HARARE – Government is set to inject more bond notes into the system in what is likely to significantly ease the cash crisis with negotiations for a top-up of the initial $200 million facility now at an advanced stage, the Daily News can exclusively reveal. Without disclosing the figure being negotiated for, Reserve Bank of…
HARARE – Morgan Tsvangirai returned from his routine medical check-up in South Africa yesterday to face debate on whether he, along with his main rival President Robert Mugabe, are fit enough to withstand the rigours of a taxing election campaign that lies ahead. The MDC leader flew into the country a day after Mugabe had…
HARARE – Communities in some of the country’s major towns are living in fear of ruling party youths who are operating terror gangs that are extorting money from informal and formal traders while harassing residents they perceive as opposed to Zanu PF, which has started campaigning for next year’s polls. The resurfacing of the terror…
HARARE – Zimbabwe Association of Community Radio Stations (Zacras) — a non-profit organisation — operating a national campaign to get more non-commercial radio stations approved, is seeing its dream getting dashed. The non-profit organisation and other press freedom groups seeking to diversify media ownership, scored a victory when President Robert Mugabe signed into law a…
HARARE – In a bid to stem the factional fights spiralling out of control in his party, President Robert Mugabe barred his quarrelling cadres from using social media to air their views. In spite of the ban, more and more of his officials have fallen in love with social media, principally Twitter and Facebook. A…
HARARE – Our reporter Jeffrey Muvundusi chats with new Gweru mayor Charles Chikozho. Below are excerpts of the interview. Q: It’s about four months now since you took over the mayoral post, how has it been so far? A: It is not business as usual since I took over because of various challenges ranging from…
HARARE – Zimbabwean businesses are seeing tumbling output because of an acute dollar shortage that has forced banks to delay processing payments for imports of spare parts and supplies, a KPMG poll found. This comes as cash in circulation has dwindled to 1,4 percent of total deposits in the banking sector, according Reserve Bank of…
HARARE – Tendai Biti’s opposition PDP party is complaining that President Robert Mugabe’s sons’ debauchery and wild partying are being funded with taxpayer dollars. This comes after the two boys — Robert Junior and Chatunga Bellarmine — have been evicted from a luxury apartment at The Regent apartment hotel, in Morningside, Sandton that they were…
HARARE – Rising rates of multidrug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) are threatening to derail decades of progress against the contagious disease, experts said yesterday, with the country grappling with lack of health facilities to treat the superbug. TB kills more people each year than any other infectious disease, including HIV and Aids. Currently, there are about…
