HARARE – Urban grooves musician Ngoni Kambarami has lent his support to the national circumcision drive by composing a jazz-kwela track titled Pinda Musmart. The song was produced by Leeroy Nyamande at Lionwave Productions. The Angela hit maker told the Daily News yesterday that his pro-circumcision song was inspired by a beat that he had…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s doyen of freedom of speech, rights of the disabled and witty political analyst John Makumbe has gone too soon. We join the nation in mourning the “white man from Buhera” and we all agree that Makumbe was one kind of Zimbabwean whose shoes will be difficult to fill if ever there will…
HARARE – Controversy surrounds the source of the red VW Beetle that last year’s Big Brother contestant Maneta Mazanhi has been spotted driving. After her acrimonious exit from Big Brother following the violent tiff with fellow Zimbabwean housemate Rockford Josphats popularly known as Roki, Maneta befriended flashy businessman Wicknell B.I.G Chivhayo who promised her a…
HARARE – Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai yesterday took advantage of President Robert Mugabe’s absence “to fine-tune policy before forming the next government” at a retreat in Nyanga, party spokesperson Douglas Mwonzora said yesterday. Mugabe is away in Ethiopia where he is attending the African Union summit and normally meets Tsvangirai every Monday to discuss the…
HARARE – A lawyer accused of swindling Zanu PF MP Munyaradzi Paul Mangwana says the politician was milked by girlfriends and numerous out-of -wedlock children. Mangwana accuses 31-year-old Burukai Muchadzireva who worked as a lawyer at his law firm in Chinhoyi of pilfering over $2 000. But, tables turned in court when Muchadzireva said the…
HARARE – A Harare magistrate has heard how a 34-year-old man hired six vehicles, changed their registration books and sold them without the knowledge of unsuspecting owners. Bransbie Bhamu yesterday appeared before regional magistrate Hosea Mujaya on allegations of stealing the cars. The court heard Bhamu approached Stanmore Munyukwi in August 2012 and hired Munyukwi’s…
HARARE – Tennis Zimbabwe (TZ) will next month send 10 junior players for the International Tennis Federation (ITF) Under-18 African Junior Championships in South Africa. The event will run from February 18 to 23 in Potchefstroom. Zimbabwe will be represented by Valeria Bhunu, Nicole Dzenga, Thabile Tshatebi, Latifah Yasini and Zahra Finidan in the girls’…
HARARE – Kaizer Chiefs forward Matthew Rusike faces a tough decision as he weighs up whether to commit his international future to Zimbabwe or South Africa, it emerged yesterday. The 22-year-old midfield-cum-striker, who was born and raised in Harare, has a Zimbabwean father and a South African mother, but has represented his country of birth…
DAMASCUS – The bodies of dozens of young men, all apparently summarily executed, have been found in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, rebels and activists say. At least 65 bodies were found on the banks of the Quwaiq river in the western district of Bustan al-Qasr, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR)…
HARARE – Suluman Chimbetu and Jah Prayzah are without doubt the hottest artistes in Zimbabwe today but their crowd-pulling power was not enough to fill the 5 000-seater Aquatic Complex in Chitungwiza on Friday night. Show promoter Josh Hozheri used the Batai Munhu Concert, his first gig of 2013, to gauge the crowd-pulling ability of…
