PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe’s son-in-law Simba Chikore has effectively displaced through the back door the Air Zimbabwe (AirZim) boss Ripton Muzenda after he and Transport minister Joram Gumbo travelled to Malaysia to seal the troubled airline’s aircraft lease agreement. This comes on the backdrop of reports that Chikore, who was appointed as AirZim chief operations officer (COO), has been carrying out executive duties, politically sidelining Muzenda. Sources said Chikore and Gumbo are currently in Malaysia to…

An elephant trampled to death a police officer on duty at Rimai base along the Zimbabwe Mozambique border yesterday evening.   The body of the police officer was discovered today. Officials at the Cicil Kopje Nature Reserve, the licence holder of the game park, had left the game park gates open leading to the elephants straying into the law enforcement patrolling area.   The Minister of State for Manicaland Province, Mandi Chimene and service chiefs…

THE HARD TRUTH – WE ARE BEHAVING LIKE DRUNK MONKEYS The earlier we accept the quintessential fact that ZANU PF is a mafia organisation, the better. Anyone who thinks ZANU PF is a competitor to anyone must be deeply engrossed in kindergarten hallucinations of a bygone era. As we stare the watershed 2018 elections, let it be clear to all and sundry that ZANU PF does not  compete with anyone. As in the past, they…

It is often said that President Robert Mugabe hardly forgives nor forgets, but not when it has something to do with Didymus Mutasa – one of his longest serving confidantes who fell out with him after throwing his full weight behind Joice Mujuru, the former vice president who was hounded out of the ruling party on unproven charges of attempting to unseat the Zanu-PF leader.   The Daily News can exclusively reveal that Mugabe has…

One erudite person once said that at midnight every tomorrow becomes today. A midnight speaks of an eternally simultaneous relationship and occurrence of two distinct elements. It speaks of exit and entrance or an end and a start in one go. By any standard, perceived or real, Zimbabwe is fast approaching its midnight hour. A watershed moment of transition is beckoning. Whether it will come to pass or it merely becomes a prolonged midnight hour,…

The legacy of colonialism in Africa has largely affected the idea and nature of the post-colonial state. It is in the wake of decolonization (with all its attendant meanings) that discourses of Negritude, Pan-Africanism, Afropolitanism, Marxist Socialism, Neo-colonialism among others took root. In the efforts to reimagine and reinvent an Africa which did not privilege European ideals at its center, new ideologies and policies were crafted and promulgated. Colonialism in all its forms and with…

From the section US & Canada These are external links and will open in a new window Share this with Facebook Share this with Twitter Share this with Messenger Share this with Email Share R. Kelly performs in concert at Barclays Centre on September 25,   R Kelly has been accused of sexual misconduct before but was not found guilty R&B singer R Kelly has denied allegations that he is holding several young women in…

FORMER Zanu-PF Secretary for Administration struggling Dydimus Mutasa extends his begging bowl to Mugabe and Zanu pf   FORMER Zanu-PF Secretary for Administration Mr Didymus Mutasa is free to meet President Mugabe or rejoin Zanu-PF, but should do so openly without trying to put on a brave political face, Presidential spokesperson Mr George Charamba has said.   Mr Mutasa was expelled from Zanu-PF for coalescing with former Vice President Dr Joice Mujuru, who was also…

PROPHETIC Healing and Deliverance Ministries leader Prophet Walter Magaya has fired 90 workers who embarked on a strike at his Douglasdale housing project in Bulawayo last week and indicated that he is willing to refund people being mobilised to demand their deposits.   The striking workers — all of them builders — were finally paid but lost their jobs due to the industrial action which the church said was triggered by cash challenges prevailing in…