HARARE – Highly-rated singer and mbira player Tanyaradzwa Tawengwa has the perfect chance to justify the hype around her when she performs at the Book Café Saturday evening. Tawengwa will headline the popular Sistaz Open Mic Platform in a special performance entitled “Songs of Freedom”. The rising star’s show will be in keeping with the…
HARARE – Upcoming Chitungwiza-based jazz artiste Tina Watyoka has released a video for the song Usapere Simba off her eight-track debut album Introducing Tina. The 24-year-old musician believes the video will help to popularise her first album which dropped last month. “I have a dream of being a great performer and for my music to…
JOHANNESBURG – Nelson Mandela’s wife has said she is “less anxious” about the health of South Africa’s first black president than she was a week ago. “He continues to respond positively to treatment,” said Graca Machel. The 94-year-old is nevertheless said to remain in a critical state after five weeks in hospital. On Thursday, President…
HARARE – Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai says President Robert Mugabe’s rigging machinations have been revealed to him by members of the State security apparatus including secret service agents. He told party supporters in Mhondoro-Ngezi yesterday that senior police officers, soldiers and members of the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) have told him several dark secrets about…
HARARE – First Lady Grace Mugabe yesterday launched an unrestrained attack on Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai saying the MDC leader has no morals and is ugly. She told a Zanu PF rally in Chiweshe in Mashonaland Central Province accompanied by her husband, that the 61-year-old MDC presidential candidate was a man of loose morals who…
HARARE – The Research and Advocacy Unit, RAU’s analysis of the voters’ roll has been facilitated by the release of the preliminary results of the 2012 census. However, these results do not disclose the statistic of prime importance here, the number of adults in Zimbabwe as indicated by ages of 18 years or more. The…
HARARE – The Daily News reporter Wendy Muperi (WM) spoke to the 27-year-old Maureen Kademaunga (MK), the youngest candidate who has made it to the 60 reserved parliamentary seats for Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC. WM: May you give us a brief background and your relationship with Mashonaland East which hosts your reserved seat? MK:…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s Central Bank governor on Thursday said the re-introduction of the Zimbabwe dollar will not be done immediately but in the medium to long term. Gideon Gono, a close ally of President Robert Mugabe, spoke after the veteran leader told thousands of his Zanu PF supporters during the party’s election manifesto launch in…
HARARE – Dynamos star defender Patson Jaure has challenged his teammates to look within themselves and provide a quick response when they host Buffaloes in a Castle Premiership tie at Rufaro on Sunday. The Glamour Boys are short on confidence after having lost 1-0 to league debutants How Mine last weekend in a tension-filled match…
POLOKWANE – The Zimbabwe schools’ rugby team’s impressive run at the ongoing 2013 Coca-Cola Craven Week can be attributed to the form of mercurial fullback Brendon Mandivenga. The Peterhouse College rugby star has been in impressive form for the Young Sables here in Polokwane starring in both wins over Griquas and Limpopo Blue Bulls. Mandivenga,…
