HARARE – The chaos that is ravaging public hospitals is set to plumb new depths after nurses issued a notice yesterday to join medical doctors in striking over their poor working conditions. This comes as the strike by doctors enters its third week, forcing government to deploy army medics to try and mitigate the mayhem…
HARARE – The Zanu PF youth league has warned that it will block any attempts within the warring ruling party to force President Robert Mugabe to retire — insisting that he should die in office despite the nonagenarian hinting at the weekend that the party could hold an extra-ordinary congress to choose his successor should…
HARARE – Moved by a comment that the country’s most influential newspaper wrote in its edition of yesterday, regarding how Zanu PF is honouring him on his birthday, President Robert Mugabe yesterday thanked the popular daily for its “good message”. In the editorial, Zimbabwe’s leading newspaper encouraged those organising the 21st February Movement celebrations to…
HARARE – Recent comments by President Robert Mugabe and his wife Grace in which they have rubbished prospects of appointing a successor to take over from the aged leader indicate a covert plan for the latter to succeed her husband if Zanu PF wins the 2018 elections, analysts contend. Mugabe celebrated his 93rd birthday last…
HARARE – The Morgan Tsvangirai-led MDC is embarking on a door-to-door voter mobilisation ahead of the much-anticipated 2018 harmonised elections. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday MDC spokesperson Obert Gutu said the party is looking to increase its voting numbers in 2018. “The MDC is geared to increase its voting numbers to at least three…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s stone-broke government last year exceeded its expenditure by a jaw-dropping $1,2 billion, with foreign travels chewing nearly $45 million, new figures reveal. Figures from the Consolidated Revenue Fund (CRF) released on Friday, showed that in the period running to November 2016, while government had budgeted to collect revenues amounting to…
HARARE – Local clerics have slammed Friday’s xenophobic attacks on Zimbabweans and other foreign nationals in South Africa — demanding that their regional peers must intervene to force President Jacob Zuma’s government to stamp out the violence. The call comes as President Robert Mugabe’s government is holding crucial talks with their South African counterparts in…
HARARE – Zanu PF’s provincial election results for Masvingo, in which previously sacked regional chairperson and alleged Team Lacoste kingpin Ezra Chadzamira trounced Generation 40-linked (G40) bigwig Mutero Masanganise has presented the warring ruling party with a massive headache — what to do next. As matters stand, President Robert Mugabe and his senior party lieutenants…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe showed both his advanced age and human side when he told thousands of Zanu PF supporters who gathered in Matobo at the weekend for his 93rd birthday celebrations how the deaths of his parents and siblings had left him feeling very lonely. While most thankful to his creator for his…
MATOBO – President Robert Mugabe yesterday basked in reverence as his wife, Grace, heaped praises on the nonagenarian while he was feted with giant cakes at a colourful feast to mark his 93rd birthday. Mugabe — who was born on February 21, 1924 — was showered with praises not only by his wife, but by…
