HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s deputies and staff yesterday lined up to praise and shower him with gifts in celebration of his 93rd birthday during a surprise party held at his Munhumutapa offices yesterday. Top government officials took turns to wax lyrical about the nonagenarian leader, with Vice President (VP) Emmerson Mnangagwa taking the lead…
HARARE – Zanu PF’s deadly tribal, factional, and succession wars rose a notch higher yesterday after the government cracked down on some of Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s supporters, with police arresting former ruling party youth official Godfrey Tsenengamu over his Harare press conference on Monday. Zanu PF insiders who spoke to the Daily News said…
HARARE – Speaking to the ZBC in his ritual birthday interview last Friday, as powerful First Lady Grace Mugabe was roasting Zanu PF bigwigs in Buhera for dreaming about succeeding her husband, President Robert Mugabe banished for good the whispers within sections of the warring former liberation movement that she sometimes operates without his blessing….
HARARE – The major tragedies of the current state of affairs in Zimbabwe are related to the lack of a consistent national vision as well as a deliberate lack of distinction between the people, the State, and the ruling political party, a political analyst has said. Opposition Zimbabwe Partnership for Prosperity (Zipp) leader Blessing Kasiyamhuru…
HARARE – Government must come out clean on the source of the $17 million it says it has raised for the purchase of Biometric Voter Registration (BVR) kits. President Robert Mugabe’s government is so broke, hence the suspicion from several quarters when it announced that it was going it alone in the acquisition of the…
HARARE – Tendai Biti’s People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has urged the government to declare the Cyclone Dineo-induced floods a national disaster after concerns about the ability of government to cope with the aftermath. This comes after rain and strong winds battered Matabeleland last weekend, causing damage and devastating parts of Tsholotsho where villagers have been…
HARARE – The President Robert Mugabe who sat in front of reporters for his birthday interview appeared very different to the confident man who has lorded over Zimbabwe for the past 36 years, weathering the challenge of a robust opposition at home and loud Western pressure. Mugabe looked pale and frail in his choreographed interview…
HARARE – State-owned Central Mechanical Equipment Department (CMED) has suspended the importation of duty-free fuel for selected private companies following an exposé of irregularities in the facilitation of import certificates. This comes as the Transport ministry had given CMED the right to grant duty exemptions to selected private companies, a reprieve usually availed exclusively to government…
HARARE – National carrier, Air Zimbabwe, has been ordered by the Labour Court to reinstate about 300 workers it fired nearly two years ago. Air Zimbabwe chief executive Ripton Muzenda told a parliamentary portfolio committee on Transport and Infrastructure Development chaired by Chegutu West Zanu PF MP Dexter Nduna that they were going to appeal against…
HARARE – The only target police officers have is how many small vehicles, trucks or buses they have searched and not revenue targets, Home Affairs deputy minister Obedingwa Mguni has told Parliament. This comes after Bulawayo Metropolitan MDC MP Dorothy Bhebhe asked whether it was government policy that when police go to roadblocks, they are…
