BULWAYO – Treble National Arts Merit Award (Nama) winner Suluman Chimbetu used his first show in Bulawayo in the last four years to show why he is Zimbabwe’s musician of the moment. The young dendera music heir befittingly made a triumphant return to Zimbabwe’s cultural hub with a show at Amakhosi Cultural Centre. Sulu conceded…
BULAWAYO – Bulawayo queen of dance Sandra Ndebele, who launched her sixth album at Rainbow Hotel in Bulawayo at the weekend, has justified her blend of secular and gospel music. The former Iyasa prodigy told guests at her album launch who included Small and Medium Scale Enterprises minister Sithembiso Nyoni, Zimbabwe Defence Industries (ZDI) chief…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has admitted to the long-held view that it is staffed with a militarised secretariat. Addressing delegates at a workshop on conflict management in Harare yesterday, Zec commissioner Bessie Fadzai Nhandara admitted some of the electoral body’s employees were once employed by the army and Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO)….
HARARE – Government ditched a private equity investment firm that audaciously stitched the first Zimbabwe Platinum Mines Limited (Zimplats) indigenisation deal before engaging Brainworks Capital, the Daily News can reveal. Fronted by managing partner Kura Sibanda, investment firm Top Harvest had its mandate to advise government on the Zimplats deal withdrawn in 2011 by then…
HARARE – Former Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporation (ZMDC) acting chairperson, Gloria Mawarire, says she is puzzled as to the reason behind Core Mining director Lovemore Kurotwi’s criminal charges. Kurotwi is facing fraud charges involving $2 billion and is jointly charged with ex-ZMDC manager, Dominic Mubaiwa. Charges against Kurotwi and Mubaiwa arose after a failed investment…
HARARE – Zanu PF’s celebrated indigenisation and empowerment programme has been dealt a heavy blow after revelations of irregularities in the award of tenders for the scheme. In any democratic society, the responsible authorities would be duty-bound to provide satisfactory answers, failure of which heads would roll. Saviour Kasukuwere, Indigenisation and Empowerment minister, failed to…
HARARE – A senior police officer returning from an international peacekeeping mission in war-ravaged Guinea-Bissau has praised President Robert Mugabe for preaching peace, reminiscing on the lawlessness he witnessed in Bissau. Cadwell Moyo, a police superintendent, spent three years in the war-torn country where he said he helped install structured police stations. Presenting his tour…
HARARE – A Nigerian who allegedly married two Zimbabwean women under Chapter 5:11 of the Marriage Act appeared in court yesterday. The Chapter 5:11 marriage is conducted at the Magistrates’ Court or in church by a registered marriage officer and it allows a man to have only one wife at any given time. Michael Chinweba…
PRETORIA – The charge against Oscar Pistorius has been upgraded to premeditated murder after a judge said he could not exclude the possibility of planning in the shooting death of the track star’s girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. But the judge said he will consider downgrading the charge later. The ruling came during an emotionally draining bail…
HARARE – Lifestyle Holdings Limited (Lifestyle) – formerly TN Financial Holdings Limited – plans to delist from the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) after failing to raise capital on the local market. The group, which recently set up TN Harlequin Luxaire International Limited (TNHLI) in Mauritius, intends to make Lifestyle a wholly-owned subsidiary of the new…
