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According to a former Trump campaign worker, quoted in a news report by Axios, the president wants the men who work for him to wear ties and the women to dress “appropriately”.
Angola’s long-time President Jose Eduardo dos Santos has confirmed he will step down before August’s poll and has announced his likely successor.
By Jeffrey Muvundusi MDC vice president, Thokozani Khupe, has joined the loudening chorus by opposition and civil society groups who are calling for a boycott of President Robert Mugabe’s 93rd birthday celebrations in Matobo. The bash, organised by the 21st February Movement, will be hosted by Matabeleland South Province at the Rhodes Estate Preparatory School […]
By Mugove Tafirenyika The ruling Zanu PF party is divided over President Robert Mugabe’s succession, a situation that is now affecting government business amid threats of war from the warring factions if their preferred candidates to take over from the soon-to-be 93-year-old leader are sidelined. Our senior writer Mugove Tafirenyika (Q) caught up with Zanu […]
Zimbabwean Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa has reportedly accused black businesses of refusing to pay taxes and yet “expect government to provide them with public services”. Chinamasa said this, as he challenged Members of Parliament (MPs) to offer constructive suggestions to help the government increase its revenue inflows, a News Day report said. The finance minister […]
The EFF leader is once again pulling no punches on what he calls Zuma’s ‘desperation’ to escape accountability for alleged corruption. If there were a possibility of President Jacob Zuma changing overnight to become a woman so that he could secure a third term, he would have already done that. That’s how desperately he wants to cling […]
By Max Bearak | The Washington Post | The 22-year reign of one of Africa’s most eccentric and self-serving dictators came to an end last month when the president of Gambia — whose full title was His Excellency Sheikh Professor Alhaji Dr. Yahya A.J.J. Jammeh Babili Mansa — finally ceded power to his democratically elected rival and fled to […]
By Bridget Mananavire Former State Procurement Board (SPB) chairperson, Charles Kuwaza, could be arrested after legislators from across the political divide called for the instigation of contempt of Parliament charges against him. Ruling Zanu PF and opposition MDC MPs yesterday united in calling for contempt of Parliament proceedings against Kuwaza, who did not turn up […]
By Mugove Tafirenyika Zanu PF youth league leader, Kudzanai Chipanga, made a sensational proposition yesterday that is guaranteed to set tongues wagging within the warring ruling party, saying President Robert Mugabe should only be succeeded by someone who carries the same surname as the country’s long-ruling leader. Speaking to the Daily News in an exclusive […]
By Tendai Kamhungira Death row inmates will have to wait longer before knowing their fate after the Constitutional Court (Con-Court) on Wednesday struck off the roll their case in which they sought abolishment of capital punishment. The two applicants, Farai Lawrence and Wisdom Gochera, through their attorney, Tendai Biti, are challenging their death sentences. The […]