NEXT month’s eagerly anticipated national elections should be treated as a “golden opportunity” for Zimbabwe to show that the country can hold credible and undisputed polls. So say political analysts who told the Daily News On Sunday yesterday that were that to happen, Zimbabwe would be firmly on the road to resolving its myriad…
LAWYER Lovedale Mangwana has filed an urgent High Court application seeking the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) to go ahead and print presidential ballot papers without independent candidate Saviour Kasukuwere’s name. This is despite that Kasukuwere last week filed an appeal at the Supreme Court seeking to reverse an earlier High Court judgment that blocked him…
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa has warned party officials, seeking to represent the opposition as council candidates, not to be involved in corrupt acts once voted into office. This comes as most opposition-run local authorities across the country are being accused of being involved in corruption with scores of councillors…
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has advised the public against investing in Ponzi schemes, adding the recent surge in such activities were fraudulent and potential “investors” will fail to recover their funds. In a statement, the RBZ’s Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) raised concerns with the proliferation of Ponzi schemes in the country designed to…
THE United States (US) and the United Kingdom (UK) are some of the countries that have raised red flags over the new Patriotic law, arguing it will impede freedom of association in Zimbabwe. This comes after President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Friday signed the Patriotic law to be part of the Criminal Law (Codification and…
By Blessings Mashaya and Nyasha Kunyiswa THE Church and other civil society groups are pushing the country’s political leaders to meet and sign a peace pledge ahead of next month’s crunch elections. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, the secretary-general of the Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops Conference (ZCBC), Tryvis Moyo, confi rmed that the Church…
Brandon JosphatSTAFF WRITERjosphatbl@dailynews.co.zw POLICE have finally given the green-light to the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) to launch its 2023 election manifesto at Mkoba Stadium, Gweru, tomorrow after the initial unveiling pencilled for Bindura was stopped by the law enforcement agency last week. CCC president Nelson Chamisa would be the main speaker at the…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday signed the Patriotic Law to be part of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Amendment Act, the chief secretary in the Office of the President and Cabinet, Misheck Sibanda, yesterday confirmed in the Government Gazette. The new law criminalises anyone caught “wilfully injuring the sovereignty and national interest of Zimbabwe” and…
Rutendo Ngarangarar@dailynews.co.zw AUTHORITIES fear Zimbabwe might face serious water challenges due to the proliferation of unsanctioned boreholes and have ordered all illegal borehole owners to approach the Zimbabwe Water Authority (Zinwa) and regularise their water use. The alarm was raised by minister of Agriculture, Anxious Masuka, in a statement yesterday, adding that all water uses…
By Ketty Nyoninyonik@dailynews.co.zw PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday reiterated his call for foreigners observers, invited to monitor Zimbabwe’s next month’s general elections, not to interfere in the running of the polls by sticking to their mandate. He was addressing thousands of Zanu PF supporters gathered at the Airport Village Stadium in Harare.Earlier yesterday, Mnangagwa had officially…
