HARARE – Zimbabwe has an estimated 4 701 children living and working on the streets of the country’s major cities — Harare, Mutare, Bulawayo and Beitbridge — the Social Welfare ministry has revealed. Without clarifying how recent the estimates were, last week Social Welfare deputy minister Tapiwa Matangaidze said government had conducted a count in…
HARARE – Local Government minister Saviour Kasukuwere has insisted that urban tollgates “are a necessary evil”, vowing to go ahead with construction of the plazas, despite fierce resistance by motorists. This comes as Transport minister Jorum Gumbo has distanced himself from the proposed urban tollgates, saying if they are to be put in place, they…
HARARE – It is dog-eat-dog in Joice Mujuru’s newly-formed National People’s Party (NPP) as officials jostle for positions ahead of an elective convention next month. Mujuru — NPP’s interim leader — will be uncontested as the party’s presidential candidate. However, according to a list of candidates and the positions that they will be contesting for…
HARARE – Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai yesterday told his supporters in Chitungwiza how he had survived numerous assassination attempts at the hands of Zanu PF goons — further assuring anxious Zimbabweans that change was inevitable after next year’s eagerly-anticipated national elections. Speaking for the first time since a shadowy State media columnist who writes under…
HARARE – Our production editor Eddie Zvinonzwa speaks to opposition Transform Zimbabwe (TZ) president Jacob Ngarivhume about Zimbabwe’s political and economic terrain as the 2018 elections beckon. Below are excerpts of the interview. Q: Who is Jacob Ngarivhume? A: I grew up in the village, in Bikita District although originally my Satiya clan is from…
HARARE – Our Bulawayo reporter Jeffrey Muvundusi spoke to Zapu president and former Home Affairs minister Dumiso Dabengwa. Below are the excerpts of the interview. Q: You had congress late last year where you were re-elected president. What plans do you have taking Zapu forward? A: Since elected as president, the thrust has been to…
HARARE – Following a six-week stint behind bars after being denied bail by the Harare Magistrates’ Courts, Remnant Church pastor Phillip Mugadza (PM) became a talking point. He was subsequently granted bail by the High Court, but had to endure another weekend behind bars after a clerk at the court initially refused to accept his…
HARARE – Former Home Affairs minister and leader of Zapu, Dumiso Dabengwa, says President Robert Mugabe does not want to retire because he fears possible prosecution for the country’s dark past which is blamed on him and Zanu PF. Speaking to the Daily News On Sunday in an exclusive interview yesterday, the revered and softly-spoken…
HARARE – As the Daily News celebrated six years yesterday, since it came back to the market on March 18, 2011, respected legal eye Alex Magaisa has described the influential newspaper’s closure by the government in September 2003 as “not legally sound”. Writing on his Big Saturday Read blog, the University of Kent law lecturer…
HARARE – Security commanders have summoned opposition parties to a meeting in Harare tomorrow, ahead of Wednesday’s planned mega demonstrations — amid fears by panicking authorities that the spirit of resistance which swept across the country last year is once again gathering steam ahead of next year’s make-or-break national polls. This comes as the under…
