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Thursday, 03 January 2013 11:34
HARARE - President Robert Mugabe's closest officials trooped to Nigerian “prophet” TB Joshua seeking salvation last week. Two of Mugabe’s top men, Home Affairs co-minister Kembo Mohadi and Manicaland governor and resident minister Christopher Mushowe forked out thousands of dollars to...Read More
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Friday, 21 December 2012 10:20
HARARE - The Daily News readers and the leading paper’s Editorial Council have unanimously voted Walter Mzembi minister of the year. Since he assumed office as minister of Tourism and Hospitality Industry, Mzembi has not left anyone in doubt on his...Read More
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Monday, 03 December 2012 18:09
HARARE - With 2012 coming to an end, it is that time again when the Daily News rates the performance of ministers in the unity government without favour or political bias. This year’s ratings are different...Read More
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News » Ndakaziva Majaka, Staff Writer
Thursday, 29 November 2012 09:47
HARARE - Zimbabwe should stop opening up the retail and wholesale sectors to foreigners because it is not in the national interest, a Cabinet minister said yesterday. Addressing delegates at the Indigenisation Conference in the capital, Justice and Legal Affairs minister,...Read More
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Thursday, 29 November 2012 09:44
HARARE - President Robert Mugabe yesterday finally swore-in Morgan Komichi, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s pick for deputy minister of Transport and Infrastructure Development. Mugabe had been reportedly refusing to swear in Komichi for several months. Only Mugabe, as the President has...Read More
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Friday, 09 November 2012 11:42
BRAZZAVILLE - Ministers of sport in Africa meet in Brazzaville, Congo, to consider recommendations to reconfigure the management of sport on the continent including the organisation of the All-Africa Games. The ministers will meet in an extraordinary general assembly of the...Read More
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Friday, 02 November 2012 09:38
HARARE - Education minister David Coltart seems to have joined the defensive bandwagon at a time the house is burning. He told the Daily News there is no chaos in our education sector. This is at a time when public...Read More
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Monday, 22 October 2012 09:17
BULAWAYO - Leader of the smaller MDC faction by legislative representation, Welshman Ncube, says most ministers in the coalition government are defying Cabinet decisions, preferring to listen to their political parties instead. Addressing a Bulawayo civic society meeting to discuss constitution...Read More
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Friday, 12 October 2012 09:50
HARARE - Taken from his plush office and thrown into a cab usually reserved for police dogs, Energy minister Elton Mangoma learnt the hard way that being part of the “unity” government provides no insulation from harassment. Police officers, whose boss...Read More
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News » Fungai Kwaramba, Staff Writer
Thursday, 11 October 2012 09:55
HARARE - Energy minister Elton Mangoma was yesterday arrested by police on charges of undermining the authority of the President five months ago. He was charged and released late yesterday. Four detectives from the Law and Order Section at Harare Central...Read More
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News » Fungai Kwaramba, Staff Writer
Thursday, 11 October 2012 09:31
HARARE - Energy minister Elton Mangoma was yesterday arrested by police on charges of undermining the authority of the President five months ago. He was charged and released late yesterday. Four detectives from the Law and Order Section at Harare Central...Read More
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Africa »
Monday, 08 October 2012 15:53
TRIPOLI - Libya's Prime Minister-elect has been dismissed from his post, after failing for a second time to win parliamentary approval for a new cabinet. Mustafa Abu Shagur had called for the formation of an "emergency government", consisting of just 10...Read More
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Friday, 05 October 2012 09:21
HARARE - Stanislaus Tanislaus Gorerazvo Mudenge, Zimbabwe’s minister of Higher Education, collapsed and died yesterday after making a presentation at the Great Zimbabwe Hotel in Masvingo. He was 71. Mudenge, best known as the suave and verbose civil servant mandarin, had...Read More
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Tuesday, 02 October 2012 10:59
BULAWAYO - The MDC national organising secretary Nelson Chamisa says most Zanu PF Cabinet ministers support his party but are afraid to come out in open. Introducing former Zanu PF women’s league commissar Tracy Mutinhiri to over 20 000 MDC supporters...Read More
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News » Fungai Kwaramba, Staff Writer
Tuesday, 25 September 2012 12:30
HARARE - Environment minister Francis Nhema is embroiled in a legal tussle with businessman Douglas Makonese after the Environment Management Authority (Ema) controversially stopped an eco-tourism project on the shores of Mazoe Dam. In his founding affidavit Makonese, through his lawyers...Read More
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