HARARE – Dynamos are considering sending an advanced party to Kinshasa in preparation for their visit to face AS Vita in the second leg of an African Champions League first round qualifier. The two teams first clash in the first leg of the tie this Saturday at the National Sports Stadium. DeMbare will then travel…
BULAWAYO – Former Zimbabwe international and Orlando Pirates defender Zvenyika Makonese will not be offered a contract by Bulawayo giants Highlanders. Makonese, who has been training with Highlanders in the last couple of weeks, was asked to stop training with the 2013 Premiership runners-up after the morning training session at White City Stadium. Highlanders first…
HARARE – There is nothing peculiar about Manuel Bagorro bouncing back as the artistic director of Harare International Festival of the Arts (Hifa) just a year after he quit, a spokesperson for the arts fiesta has said. Bagorro, the founder of Hifa, was replaced by Gavin Peter after he quit the festival in 2012 to…
HARARE – Stand up comedian Carl Joshua Ncube is putting together a team of local celebrities that will play Zimbabwean football legends in a charity match meant to raise funds to refurbish football grounds in Tafara-Mabvuku. The award-winning comedian told the Daily News that the charity match would take place at a venue in Tafara-Mabvuku on…
HARARE – Foreign investors are keen on investing in the revival of dormant mines including Shabani-Mashava Mine (SMM), Mines minister Walter Chidhakwa said. Apart from the Zvishavane-based asbestos producer, he said the financiers have also expressed interest in the Kamativi tin mine in Mhangura. This comes as government is seeking investors to resuscitate closed mining…
EDITOR — Following dangerous, brazen, divisive and unconstitutional attempts by the deputy treasurer-general in the MDC, Elton Mangoma, to effect a palace coup by using money as bait, the MDC youth take this opportunity to tell Mangoma that: “As youths, we are quietly observing the shenanigans being perpetrated by some members of the standing committee,…
EDITOR — I would like to reinforce complains made by several readers in your paper over Zesa’s unfair load-shedding. I also stay in Chadcombe where one of your readers recently wrote to voice displeasure on the unfair practises by the power authority. Just yesterday, there were about four power outages at five to 10-minute intervals…
EDITOR — Your story in yesterday’s paper that the Office of the President and Cabinet (OPC) is seized with the issue of executive salaries in the public sector and local government is worrying. It should publish all public sector salaries including those of quasi-governmental organisations, statutory bodies and State-owned enterprises. That is the best practice which…
HARARE – The rainfall patterns in Zimbabwe this season have baffled many people — from laymen to climate experts. Areas that have received little or no rain for the last two decades suddenly received more than expected rainfall. Many farmers are excited that they could once again, at least, grow crops that need plenty of…
HARARE – Annual arts jamboree — the Harare International Festival of the Arts (Hifa) — has defied all odds to become the main attraction in the industry. It has grown on the back of significant corporate and local support which is not rivalled by any other arts event in this country. As such, Hifa, by…
