PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has described the Covid-19 pandemic as a threat to world peace and security, calling on African countries to revamp their health delivery systems. Addressing other African leaders during the virtual meeting of the Aswan Forum on Sustainable Peace and Development, Mnangagwa said countries must work together to deal with post Covid-19 effects….
IN A surprising development that also marks the first time in the history of independent Zimbabwe that a sitting vice president has quit his or her job, Kembo Mohadi resigned with immediate effect last night. The development immediately sent Zimbabwe’s rampant rumour mill into overdrive regarding both his likely successor and the “real” reasons behind…
Blessings Mashaya SENIOR STAFF WRITER mashayab@dailynews.co.zw AS THE push for Zimbabwe’s much-needed national dialogue continues to gather steam, the opposition said yesterday that it was important for Sadc and the African Union to help midwife the mooted talks. Speaking to the Daily News, both the main opposition MDC and the MDC Alliance also re-affirmed their unequivocal…
BUSINESS executives are sounding decidedly upbeat in Zimbabwe, a sea change from the pessimism they’ve expressed through two decades of economic mismanagement and institutional decay. The southern African nation is reaping the benefits of a commodities boom and good summer rains that are bolstering farm output. A series of reforms spearheaded by Finance minister Mthuli…
Blessings Mashaya SENIOR STAFF WRITER mashayab@dailynews.co.zw ZANU PF has begun issuing electronic cards to its members as the party gears up for the 2023 national elections. This comes as President Emmerson Mnangagwa lit the torch paper to the Zanu PF campaign during an address at a politburo meeting last month where he urged the party…
Nyasha Dube STAFF WRITER duben@dailynews.co.zw THREE real estate firms have approached the High Court seeking an order that would suspend the sale of stands they claim were stolen by High Range Resources and Glorious Real Estates. In an application filed last week at the High Court, Andrean Investments, One Mzuri Estates and Ruwa Estates cited…
LAST week, two senior MDC officials, former Midlands senator Lillian Timveous and former Kwekwe Central MP Blessing Chebundo, jumped ship and joined President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s ruling Zanu PF party. The development was met with fierce criticism from opposition supporters amid allegations of the two being sell-outs. The Daily News on Sunday Chief Writer Mugove Tafirenyika…
SONIA Ngwenya, 39, wakes up early in the morning to her usual 5.30am alarm that alerts her of her dawn duty of queuing at the community borehole to fetch water for the day. The mother of four, who rents a room in Makokoba suburb together with three other families, wakes her children and they head…
ONE OF the prominent founding members of the MDC and former legislator, Blessing Chebundo, says the country’s opposition is going downhill due to tribalism, senseless infighting and a hatred for new ideas. Speaking to the Daily News On Sunday yesterday, Chebundo — who surprisingly defected to the ruling Zanu PF together with Lillian Timveous last…
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has called upon residents to be whistleblowers by alerting authorities on the presence of sand poachers within their vicinities. This comes as sand poachers have been leaving huge craters and open shafts that have claimed the lives of many Bulawayo citizens. This month alone, at least three people have…
