FORT RIXON – A Fort Rixon man has been arrested at his hideout after fatally hitting and killing one Emmanuel Mkhaliphi with a stone. The State alleges that on December 25 last year, Misheck Ncube, 21, of rural Lindeni was drunk and became violent, randomly hurling stones over Madzi Tuck Shop which is located at…
HARARE – Government has won plaudits for allocating funds for cancer advocacy in the 2014 National Budget. Itai Rusike, Community Working Group on Health (CWGH) executive director, said the allocation was a positive development. “A new line item, Cancer Advocacy has been allocated $500 000,” Rusike said in a post-budget analysis, describing it as a…
HARARE – Sungura “king” Alick Macheso, whose latest album Kwatabva Mitunhu (Kure kwekure) has been described by several critics as his worst ever, claimed the top and fifth positions in the 2013 Radio Zimbabwe Coca Cola Top 50. Macheso’s hit song Macharangwanda, which also topped the 2013 National FM’s top 50, beat second-placed Suluman Chimbetu’s…
HARARE – South Africa-based Zimbabwean dancehall star Thabani “Buffalo Souljah” Ndlovu has lined up an 18-track album that features ex-Brick and Lace star Nailah “Nyla” Thornbourne. Nyla, who until early last year was the other half of the defunct Jamaican group Brick and Lace, collaborated with the award-winning Buffalo Souljah on the song Born to…
HARARE – Budget allocations to some ministries plainlycontradict projections contained in the post-election Zimbabwe Agenda for Sustainable Socio-Economic Transformation (Zim Asset) blueprint which has been vaunted by Zanu PF as a panacea to most of the country’s economic deficits. From a glance at some of the allocations, attaining deliverables proposed in the economic dossier seems…
HARARE – An international consortium of investors nearly suspended a $750 million investment at New Zimbabwe Steel, formerly Ziscosteel, apparently because of pervasive corruption and demands for bribes by Cabinet ministers. The investment needed now is estimated to be around $1 billion. The revelations came after a leaked email between Omani business tycoon Kamal Khalfan,…
HARARE – Munyaradzi Kereke, the Member of Parliament for Bikita West, has asked the Constitutional Court to stop the High Court from insisting that he be cited as a respondent in a rape case involving a minor. High Court judge Happias Zhou in December ruled that Kereke, accused of raping an 11-year-old girl four years…
BULAWAYO – Government has pledged support for the ailing Bulawayo industries reeling from massive de-industrialisation for the past decade. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, Industry and Commerce minister Mike Bimha, said: “Government is committed under the Zim Asset programme to resuscitate Bulawayo industries. “Under the Zim Asset programme, government is looking at a possibility…
HARARE – Millicent Mombeshora, wife to Lands and Rural Resettlement minister Douglas Mombeshora, has approached the Supreme Court seeking to stop attachment of her household property over a $30 000 debt. Mombeshora’s lawyer Jonathan Samukange of Venturas and Samukange told the Daily News: “The matter is now in the Supreme Court so the property will…
HARARE – Loughty Dube has been appointed executive director of the Voluntary Media Council of Zimbabwe (VMCZ). VMCZ is a professional media self-regulatory body set up in 2007 by Zimbabwean journalists and other stakeholders in civil society who subscribe to the principles of media freedom, accountability, independence, and ethical journalism. The VMCZ board appointed Dube,…
