HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s planned visit to the volatile Masvingo province next week has re-ignited another war between two Zanu PF factions locked in a fierce tussle over his succession — with the fresh fight now focused on who will be recognised as the provincial chairperson during the nonagenarian’s rally at Mucheke Stadium. This…
HARARE – Saviour Kasukuwere, the troubled Zanu PF national political commissar, opened up recently to members of his inner circle that his rivals were agitating for his ouster because he refused to be part of their agenda to ease President Robert Mugabe out of power. In a leaked video recording, Kasukuwere is heard telling his…
HARARE – Zanu PF’s politburo will today reconvene at the party’s national headquarters in Harare for a high stakes special meeting that might conclude the long-running case involving its national political commissar, Saviour Kasukuwere, who is facing 11 charges, among them plotting to topple President Robert Mugabe. The party’s secretary for administration, Ignatius Chombo, has…
HARARE – Zanu PF kept the family of fallen liberation stalwart and musician Dickson “Cde Chinx” Chingaira guessing yesterday, with President Robert Mugabe’s lieutenants deeply-divided and dithering on his hero status — leaving today’s politburo meeting to deal decisively with the matter. Cde Chinx who died in Harare last Friday following a battle with cancer,…
HARARE – Long-suffering Zimbabweans are now being forced to accept huge sackfuls of coins from their banks and mobile money agents as bond notes vanish from the local market on the back of currency dealers who are either hoarding them for speculative purposes or taking the surrogate into the black market. Investigations by the Daily…
HARARE – Share price of Econet Wireless Zimbabwe (Econet), the country’s largest telecommunications firm by subscriber base, has jumped by more than 100 percent since it announced its historic $130 million rights issue in January. The company’s stock hit a record high of $0,35 cents yesterday compared to $0,17 cents in February this year. Econet’s…
HARARE – Liberation war leaders should step aside without delay and allow new leadership of Zimbabwe whose political and economic implosion is worsening, liberation war icon Rugare Gumbo (pictured) has said. Gumbo, who is now an elder in the opposition Zimbabwe People First (ZPF) having been kicked out of Zanu PF in 2014 on charges…
HARARE – The Judiciary Service Commission (JSC) has begun the hunt for the new Prosecutor-General (PG) after it issued a notice inviting nominations for candidates seeking to fill one of the country’s coveted but difficult jobs within the legal fraternity. This comes as there is already serious jockeying for the PG’s post, hardly two weeks…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s late Vice President, Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo, is a man credited with shaping the country’s economic and social fibre. So much has been said about his exploits before, during, and after the country’s liberation struggle against white colonial rule. One of his many exploits was the idea of setting up the Ekusileni Medical…
HARARE – Liberation war musician Dickson Chingaira, aka Cde Chinx, could make history by becoming the first musician to be declared a national hero. Cde Chinx succumbed to prostate cancer last Friday and died at the age of 62. By yesterday evening, there was no news on what President Robert Mugabe and his party might…
