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Harare – Zimbabwe’s ruling, the Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front (Zanu PF) may have decided to finally deal with succession disputes in the party decisively, Khuluma Afrika reported.   According to impeccable sources, Provincial coordinating committees (PCCs) have been rolled out and instructed to launch a campaign for a special and extraordinary elective congress in December this year.   If held, the congress may see President Robert Mugabe stepping down ahead of the…

PRIMARY and Secondary Education Minister Dr Lazarus Dokora has castigated social media users for distorting information on wrong IsiNdebele spellings and accused them of inciting tribalism in the country. Responding to questions in the Senate on Thursday following the recent outrage over wrong Ndebele spellings on a Grade One IsiNdebele text book, Dr Dokora said the information on the textbook had been altered to broken IsiNdebele before it was posted on social media. He dismissed…

  The state of Carlifonia has experienced the worst fires in history which have left thirty six people confirmed dead, so far, hundreds of people missing and hundreds of houses levelled by fire. It is reportedly suspected that the fires may have been triggered by drought and fire arising from falling electrical pylons but investigations are yet to determine the exact cause. The fire is burning an area the size of New York city and…

GRACE MUGABE IS A BLESSING in that she has caused commotion in a party, which had generally been seen as stable over the years. She brought in a her hunger for power, hunger for property like farms, businesses like mines and corruption like diamonds along with her love for power and ambition to succeed Mugabe as Zimbabwe’s next president.   Grace Mugabe brought in a whole new ball game, by causing the dismissal of the…

POLICE in Beitbridge have arrested a suspected murderer, who callously killed a taxi driver by initially electro-shocking him and later stabbing him on the chest before driving to Guruve for a four-day church service.   The accused, Emmanuel Mapfumo of Chatsworth in Gutu, was not asked to plead to Cliff Chioza’s murder when he appeared before Beitbridge magistrate Trevor Nyatsanza, who remanded him in custody to October 26.   The State is alleging that on…

PRO-democracy campaigner and the leader of the National Vendors Union Zimbabwe (NAVUZ) Sten Zvorwadza was on Wednesday condemned to spend a second night in police custody as Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) members didn’t present him before the courts after he was arrested yesterday and charged with undermining authority or insulting President Robert Mugabe.   ZRP members from Harare Central Police Station’s Law and Order Section arrested Zvorwadza at his Harare residence on Tuesday and charged…

Notice Njanike (30) was convicted on his own guilty plea of contravening the Domestic Violence Act when he appeared before Mutare magistrate Ms Perseverance Makala.   In mitigation, Njanike told the court that by choking and assaulting the child, he wanted to exorcise evil spirits from the teenager who was in dire need of spiritual help.   “Your Worship, my intention was not to cause harm to the child, but to exorcise evil spirits that…

 Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa has broken his silence on the damaging claims that he forced legendary broadcaster Godfrey Majonga to jump from a high-rise apartment in Harare 30 years ago, after he allegedly caught him with a woman said to have been romantically-linked with the under-fire VP.   Well-placed sources told the Daily News yesterday that the 75-year-old VP had vehemently denied in a hard-hitting presentation to the Zanu-PF politburo on Wednesday that he had…

Morgan Tsvangirai’s ally Eddie Cross has revealed that the family of the MDC-T leader is worried that his health might not allow him to handle the 2018 general elections as well as assume responsibilities of President of the country.   “Now, just as we expect a wave of support for our 2018 Chakachaya programme, he is suffering from an aggressive form of colon cancer,” Cross wrote on his blog in an article titled Life is…