HARARE – Radio personality Munyaradzi Milimo aka DJ Munya has been arrested in a suspected kidnapping case in which a Harare man went missing before dying yesterday morning. Ortneal Tinashe Magorimbo, 26, had been reported missing since last Monday. He was reported missing at Harare Central Office under Crime Report No. 051498 last Thursday….
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s top female musicians have admitted that striking a balance between family time and work is no walk in the park. The music stars told the Daily News on Sunday they have found it difficult to successfully juggle between obligatory household and family chores, which society expects them to undertake, and entertaining their…
HARARE – Zimre Holdings Limited (ZHL)’s short-term insurer SFG Insurance Company (SFG) has collapsed. SFG’s closure comes after investigations by the Insurance and Pensions Commission (IPEC), which exposed a huge negative solvency ratio with its capital base falling far short of the minimum threshold required. IPEC yesterday advised stakeholders that it had directed SFG to…
MASVINGO – A Great Zimbabwe University lecturer was yesterday slapped with a three-month jail term for saying President Robert Mugabe was a “dirty old rotten donkey” which should be thrown in the rubbish bin. Chenjerai Pamhiri, 38, a Heritage Studies tutor at the State-owned university appeared before Masvingo magistrate Oliver Mudzongachiso, who convicted him for…
BULAWAYO – Civic society organisations (CSOs) in Bulawayo are demanding an increase in the number of mobile voter registration centres in Matabeleland alleging that the Registrar’s Office is being used by Zanu PF to discourage voters in the region. Matabeleland Civic Society Forum (MCSF) spokesperson, Dumisani Nkomo said Mashonaland was allocated more mobile registrations centres…
MUTARE – A government watchdog has demanded that the security sector leadership must be non-partisan and stop making statements that could destabilise Zimbabwe. Qhubani Moyo, chairperson of the Joint Monitoring and Implementation Committee (Jomic) media sub-committee and a senior official in Welshman Ncube’s MDC, told a press club meeting in Mutare last Thursday that state…
HARARE – The Southern African Power Pool (Sapp) has received funding from the African Development Bank (AfDB) towards the Zimbabwe-Zambia-Botswana-Namibia (Zizabona) transmission project. Zizabona, a $225 million project expected to develop new transmission lines linking the four southern African countries, has begun implementation with Saap seeking to engage consultants. “Sapp now invites eligible consultants to…
HARARE – Leading Zimbabwe boxing promoter Clyde Musonda believes the four world titles bouts being hosted by Delta Boxing Promotions in August signal a new era for the once popular sport. The World Boxing Union (WBU) has sanctioned three world title fights whilst the World Boxing Federation (WBF) has sanctioned one bout that will take…
OKLAHOMA – At least one person has died and several others were injured in a series of tornadoes that have torn through the US state of Oklahoma. The worst damage was caused by a twister near the town of Shawnee, 35 miles (55km) from Oklahoma City, local media report. A mobile home park near Shawnee…
HARARE – Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor Gideon Gono is not your quintessential Zimbabwean tycoon. He has been amassing wealth, spreading it across industries to reduce risk, and above all keeping quiet about it. He began in the 1970s as a small-time chicken farmer and builder. He then branched out into practically everything, from farming…
