HARARE – Reports reaching the Daily News on Sunday last night were that in Masvingo and some areas in Bulawayo, some legitimate Zanu PF supporters failed to vote as their names were missing on the party’s voters’ register, stirring a storm of criticism. In Gutu, Mwenezi and Bikita, 50 percent of the electorate did not…
CHISUMBANJE – The Zimbabwe government bowed to women pressure to okay the $600 million Green Fuel ethanol plant in Chisumbanje, with imported petrol now blended with 10 percent of locally-produced ethanol from the Lowveld. The project has lowered Zimbabwe’s fuel import bill by $3 million every month, the energy regulator has said. It is women…
HARARE – Abigail is lucky to be alive after nearly drowning in a derelict council-dug raw sewage pond in Zengeza 1 suburb as she came back from school a year ago. Had it not been for the timely intervention of an elderly woman passer-by who saved her, the six-year-old would have been history by now….
JOHANNESBURG – Not even former president Thabo Mbeki could escape the traffic chaos gridlock that ensued in the Joburg city centre on Friday. Instead, the erstwhile statesman did the unthinkable. He walked. Mbeki walked through the city smiling and waving, leaving behind hundreds of motorists hooting in frustration at the traffic chaos and bystanders surprised….
HARARE – Widely viewed as still “green” and a novice for the new job, Mines minister Walter Chidhakwa proved at the last held Kimberly Process (KP) Plenary that although he was thrown in deep-end, he is a shark. The 2013 KP Plenary was expected to deal with basically six issues which include the ban on…
HARARE – Fuel pumps around Zimbabwe have recently begun to feature a new E10 sticker, albeit one less shocking than the bottom line of your receipt. The Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera) recently rewrote the rules defining allowable fuel mixtures, opening the door for producers to blend in a minimum of 10 percent ethanol. The…
HARARE – Funeral assurers have appealed to the Insurance and Pensions Commissions (Ipec) to extend the deadline for new capital requirements due to prevailing liquidity challenges. The Commission increased funeral policy providers’ minimum capital threshold to $500 000 from $300 000 and they are expected to be compliant by June 2014. However, the funeral assurers,…
HARARE – Kumabhebhi founders Clare Nyakujara and Cindy Munyavi will celebrate the first anniversary of their girls-only concert today at the Book Café in a performance meant to mark 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Based Violence. Though Kumabhebhi concerts are the preserve of female performers, tomorrow’s show will include male artistes in the spirit…
BULAWAYO – Sipho Mpofu has scooped this year’s Yvonne Vera Award for short story writing presented to the winner of the annual Intwasa Short Story Competition. The award, named after the late distinguished author Yvonne Vera and is one the biggest literary prizes in Zimbabwe, seeks to recognise fresh and exciting short story writing by…
