May 2012

HARARE – Principals to Zimbabwe’s Global Political Agreement (GPA) have appointed Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai to be their spokesperson as they try to unlock the stalled constitution-making process beset by constant bickering. In an exclusive interview with the Daily News yesterday, Tsvangirai said the move was also meant to reduce “partisan interpretation of our decisions”….

HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF is poised to avoid the danger of the octogenerian leader accepting his party’s nomination before a partially-empty, new $6,5 milllion convention centre in Gweru by bussing in thousands of supporters. The Mugabe campaign has been working desperately to ensure that the 5 000-seater convention centre located 13km out…

HARARE – Legions of Oliver Mtukudzi fans turned out for his sold-out concert in Johannesburg on Friday night. The show at Carnival City celebrated the musician’s 60th birthday and coincided with the release of his 61st-studio-album. Tuku, as he is affectionately known, was born on September, 22, 1952. He took to the stage just after…

HARARE – Finance minister Tendai Biti has revised further downwards the 2012 economic growth forecast to four percent from 5,6 percent due to a significant decline in agriculture production. Biti told lawmakers attending budget preparatory meeting in Victoria Falls that new figures have revealed agriculture, which was initially projected to grow by 11,6 percent this…

HARARE – While we welcome the recently launched presidential inputs scheme, it is somewhat worrying that the programme that is supposed to benefit the whole nation has been reduced to a partisan scheme which will benefit only Zanu PF supporters. The programme was launched by President Robert Mugabe at the Zanu PF headquarters on Saturday….

HARARE – Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s agreement to pay off his jilted lover Locardia Karimatsenga Tembo could open the floodgates for other women he had relationships with to claim compensation after they were dumped. And it has invited questions about the sources of his wealth after it emerged he shelled out a six-figure amount. Tsvangirai…

HARARE – Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has blocked attempts which emanated from President Robert Mugabe’s office to dismantle the Constitution Select Committee (Copac). After failing to collapse Copac through litigation and clear sabotage, Zanu PF hardliners last week tried to dismantle the body clandestinely. Tsvangirai had to intervene and approach Mugabe after Copac employees were…

HARARE – South African disco music sensation Dan Tshanda is expected to extend his love for Zimbabwe as he struts it out at a musical show slated for the Amphitheatre in Bulawayo today. Tshanda, who will be in the company of her former protégé, the talented composer and lead vocalist Patricia Majalisa, will after today’s…

HARARE – A move by some Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) officials to use Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s face as an “election symbol” has been roundly condemned as immature and potentially divisive, a Weekend Post survey has established. Alois Chaumba, a Southern Africa Anti-Corruption Trust regional coordinator, said he was thoroughly unimpressed by the  idea….

HARARE – Inimitable all-male South African a cappella group — Ladysmith Black Mambazo — are set for a memorable show in Zimbabwe during the Spring Strings event set for September 15. Last year the Soweto String Quartet was the main act. This is the second year that the event is taking place and it will…