HARARE – Mavis Gumbo and Miriam Sibanda have emerged as the only two candidates for the Zimbabwe National Women’s Soccer League chairperson post ahead of elections set for this weekend. Sibanda is the boss of a Division One side Twalumba FC while Gumbo is the current boss for the Women’s league. Sibanda, who fancies her…
PRETORIA – A friend of Oscar Pistorius has told his murder trial that the athlete “had a big love” for guns. Darren Fresco said that he had been with him on two occasions when a gun had been fired in public. Mr Pistorius once accidentally fired a gun in a restaurant but made him take…
HARARE – Tendai Biti, the MDC secretary-general, yesterday said he would rather die than join President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF and reiterated that the 2013 elections were rigged. The feisty lawyer has come under immense pressure after appearing to praise Zanu PF’s campaign strategies in the 2013 harmonised elections whose results were disputed by the…
HARARE – Upcoming sungura musician Obvious Mutani is set to release an album based on the incarceration of RGM Independent End Time Message church founder Robert Martin Gumbura. The youthful Sungano Express frontman has also featured the self-styled king of Marabi music Kireni Zulu on the album, to be titled Musagumbura Madzimai (Half Man Half…
HARARE – The European Union, EU has invested $1,8 million in Zimbabwe’s arts industry between 2013 and 2014, the EU Ambassador Aldo Dell’Ariccia has revealed. Dell’Ariccia told the Daily News that the investment can even reach $3,3 million if indirect investments are included. “The EU has managed to get a direct budget for arts and…
HARARE – AMBA nights are everyone’s dream and I cannot wait for the Harare International Carnival which will bring the dance extravaganza to the capital city in May. For most Zimbabweans, the samba dance is synonymous with the Brazilians and it is a plus that the South American nationals are coming to participate in the…
HARARE – Government has closed its CBZ Bank (CBZ) account, a move the financial institution said will not affect its business. CBZ has since 2009 been acting as the State’s bankers following the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ)’s undercapitalisation and subsequent failure to perform its lender of last resort role. The Zimbabwe Stock Exchange-listed CBZ…
HARARE – Zimbabwe must invest its mining revenue into other sectors to curb over-reliance on mineral exports-driven economic growth, according to World Bank (WB). The global financier said while agriculture was the country’s mainstay during the 1990s, the contribution of other sectoral drivers of exports, including manufacturing and services, is much lower. According to the…
HARARE – Allied Financial Holdings (AFH) says Terence Mukupe’s appointment as the group’s chief executive — under a deal with a Mauritius-based consortium — is expected to bolster the institution’s operations. Farai Mutamangira, AFH’s chairperson, said the coming in of Mukupe “reaffirms our commitment to building a much stronger institution”. Mukupe, leading the consortium that…
EDITOR — Your story ‘Biti praises Zanu PF’ did not measure up to the ‘objectivity and accuracy test’. It had an unwarranted huge headline. Readers were like, Wow, what earth-shattering news! After reading the story one would realise the truth is that Biti was giving a very factual account of what Zanu PF did to…
