THERE is a debilitating mixture of chaos, confusion and panic among both consumers and businesses across the country, after the government made a surprise announcement late on Friday evening that it would suspend mobile money. This comes as concerned economic experts warned in interviews with the Daily News On Sunday yesterday that the government’s move…
BATTERED and bruised MDC-Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa, should go back to the drawing board and come up with new strategies to fight for his political life in the wake of the political and legal losses he has suffered at the hands of his rivals so far, analysts have said. This comes as woes continue to…
AN AUDIT into Harare City Council (HCC)’s accounts has revealed that some of the council’s bank signatories have since left municipal employment. The audit was meant to validate the signatories of bank accounts, establish operational bank accounts and create a permanent audit file for accounts signatories. HCC has 62 active bank accounts and an additional…
INTERIM MDC president Thokozani Khupe has made a dramatic extra-ordinary congress U-turn after she rolled back the new dates she had set for the Indaba to the original July 31 date, the Daily News on Sunday reports. This comes as MDC-T deputy spokesperson Khaliphani Phugeni announced last week that the party’s court-directed extra-ordinary congress which…
By Mugove Tafirenyika and Tarisai Machakaire IT DOES not rain but pours for Nelson Chamisa’s MDC faction, with the beset group receiving another morale-sapping blow yesterday after it lost the battle for the warring party’s hugely symbolic national headquarters in Harare, the Daily News reports. This comes after High Court judge, Justice David Mangota, dismissed…
HIGH Court judge Davison Foroma has freed three MDC-Alliance youth leaders — Harare West MP Joanna Mamombe, Cecilia Chimbiri and Netsai Marova — on $10 000 bail each, in a case where they are accused of faking their abduction. The trio was denied bail by Harare magistrate Bianca Makwande last week who emphasised that the…
By Mugove Tafirenyika and Tendai Kamhungira AUTHORITIES are probing cases of alleged army brutality in Harare and at the country’s borders, after soldiers are said to have gone on a rampage on Wednesday night — assaulting people and looting their goods, the Daily News reports. This comes as the country’s security forces have been accused…
THE government will not print more money to alleviate the cash shortages in the country, Deputy Finance minister Clemence Chiduwa, has said. Speaking in the National Assembly on Wednesday, Chiduwa said printing money would increase inflation. “It is not difficult to print money and as we have said in the previous statements, the cash requirement…
NELSON Chamisa, left, has everything to gain by embracing the growing calls for unity talks between him and interim MDC leader Thokozani Khupe — and everything to lose by spurning the mooted dialogue, analysts say. This comes as Khupe and Chamisa have been involved in a fierce tussle for the control of the country’s…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has praised United States President Donald Trump for allowing an American company to supply farming equipment to Zimbabwe in support of the country’s agricultural mechanisation programme, the Daily News reports. The support came despite the embargoes imposed on Zimbabwe by America, as well as the recent comments by US national security adviser…
