PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa, yesterday gagged Zanu PF members from discussing party issues in public, following the chaos that rocked the former liberation movement’s recent district coordinating committee (DCC) elections. Addressing a politburo meeting in Harare, the 78-year-old Zanu PF leader also gave hope to some defeated party bigwigs, whom he said deserved to have their…
Emmerson Njanjamangezi AUTHORITIES say ordinary motorists and bus operators may be able to pay toll fees in United States dollars this festive season, as part of efforts to minimise congestion at tollgates along the country’s major highways. However, Transport minister Joel Biggie Matiza told the Daily News yesterday that a substantive decision on this was subject to…
THE Special Anti-Corruption Unit (Sacu) has commenced investigations into Harare Magistrates’ Courts prosecutor Tapiwa Kasema’s conduct after he consented to bail for alleged notorious armed robber Musa Taj Abdul and his gang. This comes as the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) yesterday suspended Kasema after a huge public outcry following the granting of bail to the…
HARARE mayor Jacob Mafume, was back in the dock yesterday accused of trying to bribe a key witness in the stands scandal case he had been granted bail by the High Court last week. Prosecutors told a Harare Magistrate’s Court that Mafume was picked up on Monday by investigators while trying to bribe suspended Harare…
Mugove Tafirenyika CHIEF WRITER tafirenyikam@dailynews.co.zw AS THE violent armed rebellion in neighbouring Mozambique worsens, there are growing concerns that Zimbabwe and other regional countries are at risk on a number of fronts — unless Sadc deploys troops there to quell the insurgency. Political analysts who spoke to the Daily News yesterday said Sadc needed to assist Mozambique…
Jeffrey Muvundusi in BULAWAYO EXPELLED MDC organising secretary Abednico Bhebhe, pictured, has filed an urgent chamber application at the Bulawayo High Court seeking to stop the opposition party from holding its elective extra-ordinary congress. The congress has been set for December 19 at Harare’s Rainbow Towers where the party is seeking to elect a new…
Godknows Matarutse in GWERU LOCAL media should put national interests first in their reporting to contribute towards the success of the National Development Strategy 1 (NDS1), Information minister Monica Mutsvangwa has said. This comes as Finance minister Mthuli Ncube recently introduced the economic blueprint, which kicks in next month to succeed the Transitional Stabilisation Programme…
Tamary Chikiwa in BULAWAYO HEART patients have launched a national appeal to the corporate world and individuals to assist in raising US$1,5 million to re-establish a cardiac surgery unit at Mpilo Central Hospital in Bulawayo. The hospital that caters for patients from Matabeleland, Masvingo, Midlands and Bulawayo provinces last conducted cardiac surgeries a decade ago….
Mugove Tafirenyika CHIEF WRITER tafirenyikam@dailynews.co.zw PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is stepping in to try and end the widening fallout from Zanu PF’s chaotic district coordinating committee (DCC) elections, which have raised political temperatures higher even in his Midlands home province. So concerned is Mnangagwa, it has emerged, that he has asked to meet the ruling party’s…
Blessings Mashaya in Beitbridge LONG-DISTANCE truck drivers have raised fresh concerns over undue delays that they are continuing to endure at the Beitbridge Border Post, the Daily News reports. Apart from having to spend days in serpentine queues which sometimes stretch more than 10 kilometres, the truckers also complained about the proliferation of criminals at the border…

