HARARE – Jah Prayzah will release a 10-track album titled Kumbumura Mhute in April in a bid to fortify his position as one of Zimbabwe’s most followed musicians. The Uzumba-born artiste performed songs that will feature on the upcoming fifth album during a well-attended gig at the Book Café on Friday night. Jah Prayzah, whose…
HARARE – Zimbabwe Music Rights Association (Zimura) director Polisile Ncube says her organisation is generating less revenue due to widespread closure of businesses that pay for using music. The music rights body generates royalties for member musicians by licensing radio stations and other entertainment facilities that utilise music. But with 78 licensed clients closing shop…
JOHANNESBURG – Nelson Mandela left an estate valued at more than 46 million rand ($4.13m; £2.53m), a public reading of his will has revealed. Executor Justice Dikgang Moseneke, summarising what he said was a 40-page document, said he was “not aware of any contest” to the will. Close personal staff each get 50,000 rand. Schools…
HARARE – Independent End Time Message founder and pastor Robert Martin Gumbura has been jailed for 50 years on four counts of rape. He was sentenced to 15 years on two counts of rape and 10 years on the other two. Ten years were suspended.
HARARE – Millions of Zimbabweans face starvation after the ministry of Agriculture restored the monopoly of struggling parastatal, Grain Marketing Board, amid revelations that government, through the same ministry recently secretly signed a dodgy maize supply deal with a South African company. Indications are also that some top politicians are reportedly being allowed to import…
CHITUNGWIZA – The housing demolition exercise here, which had hit a false start, resumes today, according to the town’s council, starting with land baron Bonface “Nyonga Nyonga” Manyonganise’s house. The demolitions will target several other houses identified during Friday’s tour conducted by council officials, land barons and residents’ groups. Town clerk George Makunde confirmed that…
MASVINGO – A Mwenezi District Administrator (DA) was lucky to escape jail after a local magistrate fined him $80 for assaulting a disabled white commercial farmer he chased from his farm. Masvingo magistrate Oliver Mudzongachiso convicted DA Stanley Chamisa, 60, last week for assaulting the handicapped farmer. He appeared jointly in court with his son…
HARARE – Cabinet ministers are adopting the increasingly evasive and disdainful approach to the work of Parliament, Senators complained after ministers absconded the question time last week. Walter Chidhakwa, Mines minister, was the only Cabinet minister who was present in the Senate chamber for question time, which is held every Thursday whenever Parliament is sitting….
HARARE – Compliments of the New Year and it’s good to be back after a good rest. In my first instalment of the year, leading economist and director of Labour and Economic Development Research Institute of Zimbabwe (LEDRIZ), Godfrey Kanyenze, reviews the budget, appeals for the negotiation of a social contract and team work to…
HARARE – Chief Zvimba, Stanley Mhondora, is locked in a land ownership wrangle with Old Mutual, with the chief laying claim to the 6,4 hectares located in Budiriro 4, wards 23 and 24. Old Mutual bought the land from the Harare City Council, but is tussling for the land with an apostolic sect, Johane Masowe…
