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HARARE – MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai yesterday appealed for more assistance from Zimbabweans in providing emergency relief to people affected by the country’s worst floods in decades. Government is struggling to raise needed funds to aid flood-affected regions after a disappointing response from the international community to its $100 million emergency appeal. Concerns are growing…

BULAWAYO – MDC deputy president Thokozani Khupe has expressed disgust at the frustrating moves made by government officials when she tried to donate to floods victims in Sipepa, Tsholothso. The former deputy premier said she was made to wait a long time, “pushed back and forth,” before she was allowed to make her donation on…

HARARE – Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa taunted Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa in humorous remarks last week, saying the frugal Treasury chief is pre-occupied with saving money.  Taking pot-shots at Chinamasa — who has emerged as one of the most prudent spenders of government finances — Mnangagwa told Parliament last week that Chinamasa thinks about money…

HARARE – Police have cleared war veterans’ Friday indaba in Harare called to review the country’s deepening political, economic and social crisis. War collaborators and ex-detainees countrywide are expected to be part of the engagement, but their patron, President Robert Mugabe, is not invited. The former liberation war fighters discarded the embattled and increasingly frail…

HARARE – Government has buckled under pressure from restive civil servants after it accepted to add an extra $180 million on its 2017 budget in order to pay the workers’ long overdue 2016 bonuses. The two parties struck a deal following a lengthy deadlock that compelled the public workers to threaten downing tools, prompting yesterday’s…

HARARE – As the Zimbabwe rot continues unabated, President Robert Mugabe has been forced to hire a private jet for his recent overseas travels. This comes after the poorly-performing national carrier, Air Zimbabwe, failed to complete the servicing of its planes, which Mugabe uses, and which are undergoing mandatory maintenance checks. The Daily News learnt yesterday…

HARARE – Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai is set to end months of frenzied speculation around the country’s mooted coalition alliance — with insiders telling the Daily News yesterday that the dogged former premier will soon announce his preferred political partners for next year’s watershed national elections. Well-placed sources said the popular former trade union leader…

HARARE – The appointment process of retired Chief Justice (CJ) Godfrey Chidyausiku’s successor has lost credibility due to political interference, a legal watchdog — Veritas — has said. It said the race to replace Chidyausiku, who retired last week after reaching the retirement age of 70, has been marred by Zanu PF infighting. “It is…

HARARE – The crippling doctors’ strike, which was nearing four weeks, was called off in the interest of saving desperate patients’ lives, a union representing the health professionals said. According to the Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association (ZHDA), government offered them a raw deal as it failed to meet their demands, but they considered calling off…

HARARE – President Robert Mugabe returned home from Singapore yesterday morning — where he had gone for a medical check-up — but will have little time to either rest or knuckle down to business in his office as he is scheduled to fly out this morning, to attend Ghana’s independence celebrations. Mugabe took medical leave…