HARARE – The election of a new seven-member board to take charge of the affairs of the Zimbabwe Music Rights Association (Zimura) presents yet another opportunity for Zimbabwean musicians to consolidate efforts to accrue more out of their artistic compositions. With piracy exploding out of control on the streets, government is seemingly lacking the political…
EDITOR — Gender based violence(GBV) is a mole which is slowly eating away society. Everyday women are being subjected to physical, emotional, physiological and verbal abuse with the children becoming victims of circumstances. However, I am really taken aback by how some abused women handle their predicament. Instead of pressing charges against the man they…
EDITOR — I would like to express my alarm at how our police has turned into a thuggish, brutal and violent force. Innocent lives continue to be lost on our streets because police officers cannot simply sit down and formulate a simple way to curb lawlessness on the roads. Just recently, an innocent, family man…
EDITOR — The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) is worried that the Zimbabwean Government is using the so-called squabbles in the Apex Council — a body that represents civil servants in salary negotiations — as an excuse not to adjust salaries for civil servants, thereby relegating them further into poverty. The ZCTU does not…
HARARE – Zesa Holdings (Zesa) has tentatively agreed to a $100 million financing deal with the African Export and Import Bank (Afreximbank) for its prepaid meter-expansion project, businessdaily can reveal. This comes amid growing concern about prolonged power outages and the utility’s inability to raise enough cash to deal with the current energy deficit. Gift…
HARARE – South Africa-based Tongaat Hulett (Tongaat)’s chief executive Peter Staude says he has had sleepless nights over Zimbabwe’s indigenisation programme. His sugar-producing company, which holds a 50,3 percent shareholding in Hippo Valley Estates while it wholly owns Triangle Sugar, is under pressure to comply with Zimbabwe’s empowerment policy. The policy — enacted in 2010…
HARARE – Dormant iron producer NewZim Steel — formerly Ziscosteel — could soon reopen as engineers from India-based major shareholder Essar Africa Holdings (Essar) came into country last week. Mike Bimha, Industry minister, said the engineers visited the Kwekwe-based company to assess ways of refurbishing its plant — which has been out of production for…
HARARE – Self-proclaimed prophet, Emmanuel Makandiwa, has declared war on the Daily News and effectively wants the Zimbabwe Media Commission (ZMC) to shut down Zimbabwe’s top newspaper after encouraging the media body to “punish the Daily News”. Makandiwa has approached ZMC, the body that is in charge of regulating media houses and accrediting journalists, seeking…
BRUSSELS – International Trade Union Confederation(Ituc) deputy secretary-general, Wellington Chibebe has tipped Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai to win the forthcoming general elections. In an interview with the Daily News at the sidelines of an Ituc youth meeting at his International Trade Union House offices in central Brussels, Chibebe, the former ZCTU secretary-general said Tsvangirai still…
JOHANNESBURG – South Africa’s ailing first black President Nelson Mandela is putting up a courageous fight from his “deathbed”, his daughter Makaziwe Mandela says. She told national broadcaster SABC that the anti-apartheid icon was “still with us, strong, courageous”. “Even for a lack of a better word… on his deathbed he is teaching us lessons…
