HARARE – Bulawayo-based dance group Antivirus has released a music dance video titled Pokello Dance. The dance video is in honour of former Big Brother Africa contestant Pokello Nare whose star has soared ever since she starred on the continent’s foremost reality contest. Antivirus is made up of Ricco Andrews (24), Victor Madzura (24) and…
HARARE – Last year saw many artistes getting various types of honours. Well-known awards include the discontinued Zimbabwe Music Awards (Zima), the Zimbabwe Book Publisher Association (ZBPA) awards that were usually presented during the Zimbabwe International Book Fair and the Zimbabwe Theatre Association (Zita) awards. There are also film awards organised courtesy of the Zimbabwe…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s only surviving sibling, Bridgette, died early yesterday surrounded by relatives at a Harare hospital. Bridgette had suffered a series of breathing problems in recent weeks and died at Parirenyatwa Hospital, where she has been hospitalised in the Intensive Care Unit for the past three years, her family said in a…
HARARE – This year’s Grade 7 examinations hang in the balance after Treasury failed to allocate funds to the Zimbabwe Schools Examination Council (Zimsec). Government subsidises examination fees for Grade 7 pupils while Ordinary and Advanced Level students pay for their examination. Officials from the ministry of Primary and Secondary Education and stakeholders in the…
HARARE – Thousands of Chitungwiza residents must brace for housing demolitions after Local Government deputy minister Joel Biggie Matiza handed over a damning land audit report to council. Matiza presented the final report to Phillip Mutoti, the mayor of Chitungwiza, the district administrator for Manyame Rural District Council and other stakeholders including chairpersons of council…
HARARE – Harare lawyer Jessie Majome, the MP for Harare West, has forced government’s hand in the scrapping of Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) listener’s licence. The opposition legislator and MDC shadow minister for Justice and Parliamentary Affairs, refused to pay licence fees to ZBC. She approached the Constitutional Court seeking to force the State broadcaster…
HARARE – Three MDC activists, in custody over charges of killing police inspector Petros Mutedza in Harare’s Glen View suburb in 2011, have launched a fresh bail application. Last Maengahama, Tungamirai Madzokere and Yvonne Musarurwa remained in prison after High Court judge Chinembiri Bhunu freed 21 others, following an application for discharge by their lawyer…
HARARE – Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai will tomorrow present an alternative state-of-the-nation address to proffer solutions to deepening politico-socio-economic problems bedevilling the country. The address, to be made from the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Harare, is expected to be attended by the business community, the media, students and civic society leaders, among other interested groups….
BULAWAYO – The High Court has raised concern over a number of distressed companies applying for judicial management, saying some are abusing the process meant to assist firms get back on their feet. Speaking during the official launch of the 2014 judicial year in Bulawayo last week, Judge President Justice George Chiweshe expressed concern over…
HARARE – A Mutare businessman has offered $40 in alimony for the upkeep of his child after he was hauled before the Harare Civil Court by his ex-wife. Robert Mukombe, who runs a transport company, a banana and coffee plantation, a garage, grocery shops, restaurants and bottle stores, has neglected his child, the court heard….
