HARARE – There was all-round agreement yesterday that the much-anticipated 2018 presidential election would be another titanic contest between popular opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai and President Robert Mugabe — or a nominee of the increasingly frail nonagenarian. Zanu PF insiders and political analysts who spoke to the Daily News said with former Vice President Joice…
HARARE – Despite the fact that Zanu PF is seemingly at its weakest — as factional and succession wars rage on — the MDC is fearful that the ruling party will be vicious come 2018 elections. Speaking to the Daily News on Sunday yesterday MDC spokesperson Obert Gutu said the ruling party is just like…
HARARE – Expelled Zimbabwe People First (ZPF) member Margaret Dongo says it is now time for the country’s youths to take over the country’s political space with guidance from war veterans and other elders who participated in the war of liberation. The politician, who together with six other founding members of the party was shown…
HARARE – Zanu PF hoodlums yesterday ran amok in Chitungwiza where they injured several supporters of opposition Transform Zimbabwe (TZ) party who were on a clean-up campaign in the dormitory town. The barbaric attacks left many people needing hospitalisation. Eyewitnesses said all hell broke loose when TZ deputy organising secretary Tichaona Saurombe was about to…
HARARE – The ruckus in the troubled Zimbabwe People First (ZPF) party took a surprise turn yesterday when one of the outfit’s disaffected founding fathers, Didymus Mutasa, said it was possible that they could reconcile with former Vice President Joice Mujuru if she apologised for her disputed “dismissal” of senior party officials last week. At the…
HARARE – The persistent suspicions that President Robert Mugabe will lead Zanu PF and Zimbabwe for life were given fresh wings yesterday when former State Security minister — and for decades one of the nonagenarian’s closest confidantes — Didymus Mutasa, claimed that his distinct impression when the two geriatrics used to work together was that…
HARARE – A Mauritius-based company that was contracted to build the Airport Road has dragged the City of Harare to court demanding 40,5665 hectares of land as compensation and payment for the job to construct the controversial project, and in terms of the agreement between the two parties. In its High Court application, Kenneth Sharpe’s…
HARARE – In a court development that left the defence team fuming on Friday, a Harare magistrate deferred the trial of incarcerated activist clergyman Patrick Phillip Mugadza — who earlier this year made a controversial “prophesy” that President Robert Mugabe would die this year. Mugadza has been wasting away in remand prison since January 19…
HARARE – Embattled former Vice President and Zimbabwe People First (ZPF) interim leader Joice Mujuru is contemplating forming a new party after the fledgling political outfit’s founding fathers claimed they owned the troubled party and all its image rights. ZPF insiders who spoke to the Daily News on Friday said the latest ruckus within the party…
CHIPINGE – Zimbabwe and Mozambique are both suffering rising casualties and cattle rustling during skirmishes along their border in an area plagued by conflict over scarce resources, officials and villagers say. The neighbouring countries accuse each other of triggering clashes taking place along the central stretch of their 1 000km frontier, highlighting persisting tension over…
