HARARE – Botswana diva and Culture Spears member, Magdeline Lesolebe aka Charma Gal will soon embark on concerts in Zimbabwe — in a bid to revive her waning popularity on the local showbiz market. Lesolebe has sent her manager Lesego Lefatshe to negotiate a performance deal with local promoters. Lefatshe told the Daily News: “I…
HARARE – Women dancing group, Mambokadzi, has turned to gospel music. Yes gospel music! Mambokadzi was among the most popular dance groups during the dance craze that swept through local showbiz between 2005 and 2010. The award-winning dance group is well-known for dancing at Macheso’s concerts and also featuring on Joseph Garakara’s Idya Banana music…
HARARE – The State Procurement Board has floated a tender for the upgrade of the Harare and Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo international airports’ navigation and communication systems. In the Government Gazette published on Friday, the board invited bidders for the supply and installation of air traffic control (ATC) radar surveillance systems, navigational aid equipment and ATC…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s indigenisation policy dampens the country’s prospects of attracting the desperately needed foreign direct investment (FDI) and is irreconcilable with employment growth forecasts, says economist John Robertson. This comes as President Robert Mugabe’s administration has maintained its stance on the policy — compelling foreigners to cede majority stakes to black locals — with…
EDITOR — My right to be heard: Your false story captioned “Kereke drags in ministers, police” published on Sunday the 12th of January. I write to demand as I hereby do, my right to be heard in setting the record straight on malicious falsehoods you printed and published as above captioned. In your above story,…
HARARE – One of the puzzles of our post-independence is the contradiction between the material wealth of our ministers and public officials on the one hand, and the salaries they earn on the other. Some of these people — genuine war veterans, that is — left the battlefield, demobilisation camps or exile with nothing. A…
HARARE – Government’s hasty introduction of the mandatory use of blended fuel in August last year, and in the process denying motorists the choice of buying the fuel of their choice has come back to haunt them. The green fuel stocks have been depleted and the minister of energy Dzikamai Mavhaire has had to issue…
HARARE – ZIMBABWEAN judicial workers and senior court officials have lamented poor remuneration in the sector, which has been exacerbated by the recent and “unilateral” slashing of their perks. This comes as the country faces a potential crisis in civil servant strikes, which are likely to affect schools reopening this week. Although judges and other…
HARARE – Zimbabwe could experience intermittent fuel supplies as Green Fuel’s ethanol stocks are thinning, thus exposing the folly of government’s mandatory blending policy. This comes amid rising concern about the judiciousness of the August 2013 policy or directive, which has precipitated a constitutional challenge about the rationality of the move and other issues including…
HARARE – Government is likely to cave in and award civil servants an unbudgeted, staggered, salary increment during the 2014 financial year, a leading labour expert said yesterday. Godfrey Kanyenze, director of Labour and Economic Development Research Institute, told a post-budget seminar attended by legislators yesterday that government will have to hike civil servants’ salaries…
