HARARE – Multichoice yesterday launched a new educational channel to coincide with the beginning of the new school term. Channel ED that airs on slot 318 on Dstv, gives all MultiChoice subscribers access to an exciting knowledge portal of both global high-end documentaries and new locally-produced content. The channel will focus on a broad range…
HARARE – Heshi Mfeshi Studio, co-owned by Joe Machingura and urban grooves star Leonard Mapfumo that briefly closed its doors last year, will resume business early next month. The reopening of the studio at Dolphin House follows the securing of a new business partner Phil Nedzani who is expected to inject much-needed financial resources. Studio…
BULAWAYO – Amakhosi Cultural Centre’s Plays on Sunday programme for 2014 that kicked off last weekend, will take selected plays to venues outside Bulawayo in a bid to provide essential exposure to upcoming playwrights and actors. The Plays on Sunday programme was initiated last year with the aim of uncovering new talent and improving theatre…
HARARE – Tindo (not his real name) took an early bath with the meagre water that was in a two-litre container, one of the few belongings in his lodged shack in St Mary’s, Chitungwiza and disheveled as he was, sprinted towards Chigovanyika commuter omnibus rank. With the news of the demolition of illegal structures most…
JOHANNESBURG – Platinum (Implats)’ share price has dropped 10 percent on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange in the past week following investor concerns over threatened beneficiation requirements by Zimbabwean government on its unit Zimplats. This comes on the back of escalated pressure by Harare to have platinum miners construct a refinery in the country with President…
HARARE – Government has amended the Income Tax Act to accommodate the levy imposed on mobile money transfers as part of efforts to augment its dwindling revenue. Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa, in his 2014 National Budget presented in December, stated that every mobile money transaction will attract a $0,05 levy. Treasury is desperate to boost…
EDITOR — I rally behind the government’s proposal to buy buses in order to replace commuter omnibuses currently plying the nation’s roads as public passenger vehicles. Although it sounds a good idea, our current economic situation will not allow that to happen anytime soon. Meanwhile, lives will continue to be lost because most of these…
EDITOR — As most of us rely on the media to assess government policies, both past and present, the tendency has been to use common sense as a criteria to determine whether the policies are good or bad. As a result, it is common to hear advocates of a particular policy praising some policies without…
HARARE – Why did it take the lucky find by a 10-year-old girl to finally get action into the problem of corrupt traffic police? Two thousand dollars worth of Rands and Dollars stuffed into a bag with papers and wild fruits thrown into a pile of rubbish on the side of the road opened the…
HARARE – Recent threats by Local Government deputy minister, Joel Biggie Matiza to repossess undeveloped stands on the premise that this denies local authorities revenue essential for enhanced urban development seem misdirected. If the threat is carried out, it opens opportunities for predator land barons to amass more land at the expense of poor home-seekers….
