HARARE – Former Indigenisation minister Paul Mangwana has been dragged to the High Court for allegedly failing to pay $154 000 for a truck he bought from the Zimbabwe Farmers Development Company (ZFDC). According to court papers, the two parties entered into an agreement of sale nearly a decade ago, under which ZFDC — represented…
HARARE – The cleric — Patrick Phillip Mugadza — who prophesied that President Robert Mugabe will die on October 17, this year will continue languishing in prison after his application for further remand refusal was declined yesterday. Following the prophecy, the Kariba-based Remnant Church leader was arrested and charged with insulting people of a certain…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s recent declaration that he won’t groom a successor is yet another indication that he wants to be Zimbabwe’s leader for life, analysts said. They said the nonagenarian — who turned 93 today — must groom a successor because “presidency is not chieftaincy” whereby the heir takes over only after the…
HARARE – Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has slammed President Robert Mugabe for holding his multi-million dollar birthday celebrations this coming Saturday near the graves of Gukurahundi victims who were slain by the North Korea-trained 5th Brigade in the early 1980s. Mugabe, who turns 93 today, will be feted by thousands of Zanu PF supporters at…
HARARE – It is now open war in President Robert Mugabe’s ruling Zanu PF — after Zimbabwe’s long-ruling leader said pointedly at the weekend that there was not one person among all his ambitious lieutenants who was worthy of succeeding him. Stung by this damning statement, Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s angry allies came out guns…
HARARE – There is gnashing of teeth among Zanu PF’s bigwigs hoping to succeed President Robert Mugabe, after the country’s long-ruling leader said pointedly that Zimbabweans did not feel that there was a worthy and acceptable candidate among them to take over from him. Speaking in his choreographed annual interview with ZBC last week, ahead…
HARARE – As Zimbabwe prepares for presidential polls in 2018, our news editor, Gift Phiri, chats with Zachariah Mushawatu, a director of Youth Advocacy for Voter Enlightenment and Progressive Orientation (Yavepo) — a non-partisan organisation that promotes free and fair elections. Below are excerpts of the interview. Q: Youths don’t want to register to vote,…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) may be forced to let the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) procure Biometric Voter Registration (BVR) kits, as calls to let the technical expert handle the process grow louder. Opposition parties and civil society are concerned over rigging and credibility of the forthcoming 2018 presidential elections, after government announced…
HARARE – Disgruntled Christopher Mutsvangwa-led war veterans are planning to hold a national indaba ahead of the 2018 presidential elections. Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA) spokesperson Douglas Mahiya told the Daily News that following a national executive meeting held in Harare last week, they resolved to convene the grand indaba together with all…
HARARE – Zimbabweans were yesterday shocked by new threats from Zanu PF Harare provincial political commissar Shadreck Mashayamombe to expel all Indian nationals from Zimbabwe. The threats were accompanied by the kind of worrying rhetoric which threatens to place the ruling party in the same league as Ugandan dictator Idi Amin who hounded out the…
