HARARE – Gospel star Mathias Mhere’s recently-launched album Nguva Yenyasha has set the country alight with the track Number Busy proving to be the favourite of many. Mhere, who was propelled to fame by his blockbuster album Anoita Minana, told the Daily News yesterday that the track touches on the underlying basis of Christianity. “The…
HARARE – Since time immemorial, musicians have been inventing new genres by combining two or more different styles in exciting and unusual ways. Fusions of different music styles have given birth to nearly all the popular music we listen to today. For example dendera borrowed elements from kanindo and sungura dub, funk, and disco, coupled…
HARARE – Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa’s delay in presenting the 2014 national budget betrays massive economic difficulties, indecisiveness and empty State coffers, analysts said yesterday. This comes after Chinamasa told a pre-budget consultative seminar in Victoria Falls last week that he needed more time before making his maiden budget presentation since assuming the finance portfolio…
HARARE – Job Sikhala has disbanded his MDC 99 party and merged with Lovemore Madhuku’s National Constitutional Assembly (NCA) to form “one large political party.” Addressing a press briefing in the capital yesterday, Sikhala said in the interim, the “large party” will operate under the flagship of NCA and top leadership of the two parties…
HARARE – A Harare magistrate will today pass judgment in a case in which MDC chief elections officer Morgen Komichi stands accused of fraud and contravening the Electoral Act. Komichi was arrested in July after he presented to the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec), a ballot paper envelope he received from Michael Phiri that had allegedly…
HARARE – Nelson Chamisa, MDC legislator for Kuwadzana, yesterday slammed partisan distribution of farming inputs in Parliament. He alleged Zanu PF was working with agricultural extension officials and district administrators to distribute food aid along partisan and corrupt lines in both the government grain and seed loan schemes. Chamisa alleged Zanu PF officials, government officials…
HARARE – Harare City Council will be deploying municipal police officers to man busy intersections in Harare’s Central Business District in a move aimed at decongesting the city during peak hours. Thomas Muzuva, the city’s deputy mayor, said the move was not in any way meant to usurp the role of the police. “We are…
HARARE – A House of Manna Church pastor who developed breasts after allegedly sodomising his congregant told a Harare court yesterday his boobs were in fact a side effect of tuberculosis medication he was taking. Tizora Kaitano reportedly sodomised Tendai Tumba after inviting him for prayers at his house. During trial, Tumba revealed that he…
HARARE – Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has opposed an application by Jameson Timba, the losing MDC Mt Pleasant House of Assembly candidate, to have ballot boxes for his constituency opened. Timba filed an application with the Electoral Court in August this year, seeking an order for the opening of ballot boxes for Mt Pleasant, citing…
HARARE – An International Monetary Fund team began talks with local officials yesterday amid signs that President Robert Mugabe could take a more accommodating approach to the ownership of foreign companies. It is the first visit by an IMF team since Mugabe and his Zanu PF party won the disputed July 31 election with a…
