ZANU PF won 20 out of 23 contested local council seats in last week’s by-elections, while two former Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) Harare councillors retained their seats after contesting as independent candidates. In a notice yesterday, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) chief elections officer, Utloile Silaigwana, confirmed Zanu PF won one council seat in…
ZIMBABWEANS hoping to see the opposition dislodging Zanu PF from power will have to wait much longer as there is no chance of that happening any time soon. So says notable politician, Godfrey Tsenengamu, who also asserts that former Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader, Nelson Chamisa, will forever be haunted by his alleged “political…
FORMER Zengeza West MP and the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) senior official Job Sikhala has quit the opposition party. Addressing a press conference in Harare yesterday, Sikhala, who was released from remand prison last week after spending nearly 600 days incarcerated, said he was instead in the process of forming a National People’s Democratic…
AUTHORITIES say they are engaging with local and international investors to revive the urban passenger trains, popularly known as freedom trains, in order to decongest traffic in cities and towns. Responding to questions in the Senate yesterday, Transport deputy minister Joshua Sacco said plans of revamping the passenger trains in major cities and towns were…
AS HEARINGS on Gukurahundi are about to kick off, authorities have implored the media to report responsibly on the issue. This comes as traditional leaders are about to start holding public hearings on the killings and related trauma that were experienced mainly in Matabeleland and the Midlands in the 1980s, as part of the government’s…
By Brighton Muronzereyi and Brandon Josphat SPEAKER of the National Assembly Jacob Mudenda has demanded an urgent ministerial statement from Finance ministry authorities detailing how Treasury is addressing spiralling prices of basic commodities and currency volatility. This comes as the prices of basic consumer goods in the country continue to rise sharply largely due to…
ZANU PF is contemplating legislation that will bar former legislators from returning to Parliament if they would have previously voluntarily resigned from their positions. This comes after some MPs elected on the ticket of the warring Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) resigned from the august House in solidarity with their former leader Nelson Chamisa —…
FORMER Zengeza West MP Job Sikhala, who was recently released from remand prison after spending nearly 600 days in custody, was yesterday found guilty of communicating falsehoods. He will return to court on February 12 for a pre-sentencing hearing.The politician was being accused of posting a message on Facebook claiming that a police officer struck…
POLICE have gunned down three men who were linked to several cases of armed robbery and murder in Bulawayo and Matabeleland South provinces. The trio — Pride Moyo, Newman Ncube and Ntokozo Ncube — died from the wounds that they sustained during a shootout with detectives who had intercepted them in Gwanda on Monday. Another…
By Rutendo NgaraSTAFF WRITERngarar@dailynews.co.zw THE government says it will unleash the police onto the streets of Harare and Chitungwiza, in particular, to rid them of illegal food vendors as authorities seek to contain the spread of cholera. This comes as most local authorities across the country have failed to remove illegal vendors for years.Speaking during…
