PRETORIA – The prosecution in the Oscar Pistorius murder case expects to rest early next week, prosecutor Gerrie Nel announced unexpectedly on Wednesday. Nel has only four or five more witnesses to call, he declared to the shock of the courtroom just before lunch on the 13th day of the trial. He requested and got…
HARARE – Zimbabwe is paying a heavy financial price as the economy slows down under President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF government, with stocks and bonds on an unprecedented plunge. The Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) is sliding, driving equity prices lower across the board amid a punishing economic slowdown characterised by a biting liquidity crunch or…
HARARE – Municipal bosses all over Zimbabwe were awarding themselves lowly basic monthly salaries, albeit accompanied by hefty benefits. In a salary schedule produced by the Cabinet Committee on State Enterprises and Parastatals Development on Tuesday, town clerks were getting monthly salaries of about $2 000 on average and benefits as high as $17 000….
HARARE – Ignatius Chombo, the fabulously rich minister of Local Government and National Housing is one of the few senior government officials whose assets have been publicly exposed. He was just another ordinary man when he was a university lecturer but suddenly became rich after entering government. Apart from his impressive assets, mainly real estate…
HARARE – Pole dancer Zoey Sifelani’s School of Dancing set up in Harare last year to mentor housewives on matters of the bedroom and physical fitness appears to have ceased operations. While the controversial dancer, who recently launched her debut music album called Totsemukira, refused to confirm the closure, she however admitted to the Daily…
BULAWAYO – Amabooks, the local publishers of annual Caine Prize anthology, regards the hosting of a workshop for the coveted literary prize as a big honour for Zimbabwe. The Caine Prize workshop, featuring 13 African writers, five of them Zimbabwean, will begin at Leopard Rock Hotel in Vumba tomorrow and end on March 31. Brian…
BULAWAYO – Bulawayo poet Solwazi ‘Eternity’ Nkiwane, 24, has finally published an anthology titled Truth Be Told that she began working on at the age of 13. The 21-poem collection includes two pieces originally published by Radio Dialogue in their magazine YDB and one by Mgcini Nyoni’s Bulawayo Poetry. Her two pieces that featured on…
HARARE – Book Café founder Paul Brickhill, Fred Zindi and Oliver Mtukudzi’s former manager Debbie Metcalfe, are part of the six-member Wene Music Awards Adjudication Panel unveiled by Rooftop Promotions yesterday. The high-powered jury, announced in Harare yesterday, also includes Nigel Munyati, a founding trustee of the Zimbabwe International Film Festival Trust (ZIFFT), Joyce Jenje…
HARARE – Tryson and Suluman Chimbetu will participate in a memorial gig in honour of late dendera music icon Naison Chimbetu set for next month in the Harare Gardens. The duo who have in the past traded barbs in the media, will share the stage with some of Zimbabwe’s top musicians who include sungura kingpin…
GWERU – Comedians Carl Joshua Ncube, Michael Kudakwashe and Nqobizita “Q the Boss” Siziba will descend on Gweru on March 28 for their maiden show in the city. Event organiser Muneer Walele told the Daily News that the trio had confirmed their participation in the highly-anticipated show. “We encourage the people of Gweru to come…
