HARAARE – A Harare Civil Court has ordered businessman and mining tycoon Petros Chaponda to pay $560 as maintenance for his minor child. Chaponda, the court heard, owns a gold mine in Shamva, a diamond mine in Chiadzwa, a manufacturing company in Graniteside called Euromoz, a panel beating company in Chitungwiza and a farm. He is also…
HARARE – Dendera star Suluman Chimbetu will include a duet with United States of America-based Chimurenga music legend Thomas Mapfumo on his fifth album set to be released in April. Sulu told the Daily News yesterday that the song, that has provisionally been titled Mukanya, confers deserving homage on an inspirational Zimbabwean music icon. “The…
HARARE – Rooftop Promotions has launched the Wene Music Awards barely two months after the controversial National Arts Merit Awards (Nama) ceremony in Bulawayo. Rooftop director Daves Guzha told the Daily News yesterday that the inaugural Wene Music Awards ceremony would be held on October 29. “Wene is a call to celebrate our Zimbabwean artistic…
HARARE – Impala Platinum Holdings (Implats) says its Zimbabwean operation, Zimplats, is set to spur the group’s growth forecasts despite economic and political shortcomings. This comes as the South Africa-based platinum group metals producer — an 87 percent shareholder in Zimplats — has suffered a setback from massive labour unrest at most of its mines….
HARARE – Listed diversified group, Innscor Africa Limited (Innscor), is scaling down its bakeries due to depressed demand in the retail sector. Its chairperson, David Morgan, said the group’s confectionery division produced disappointing results in the half year to December 2013, with volumes declining 10 percent from comparative period. “As a result of current market…
HARARE – Zimbabwe must address its “unwelcoming” policies to attract Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) it desperately needs, the World Bank said. In its latest trade competitiveness report on the southern African country, the regional lender said Zimbabwe’s current investment policies pose a significant delimitation to FDI. “Investment levels remain very low outside the large-scale mining…
HARARE – What I consider the seminal picture of my four years at the Daily News shows me and Davison Maruziva, the deputy editor, staring in shock at the mangled heap of metal that had been our small second-hand printing press. In 2001, in the Harare industrial sites, where it was located since 1998, the…
HARARE – Matebeleland Tuskers stranglehold on the domestic Logan Cup cricket competition continues to wane following their 86-run defeat to Mid West Rhinos in Kwekwe yesterday. It was the Tuskers’ second defeat in three matches and the three-time Logan Cup champions are looking out of their depth this season. The other defeat came at the…
HARARE – Dynamos’ trip to the Democratic Republic of Congo suffered another snag yesterday after they had to delay their departure until this morning after failing to secure seats on their scheduled flight. The Harare giants were scheduled to flight out for Kinshasa yesterday morning to the DRC where they face AS Vita in the…
HARARE – Ten years after hanging his football boosts, former Zimbabwe international Kingston Rinemhota still bears emotional scars of failing to make a great impact in Europe because of injury. Having broken into Europe at an early stage of his career after joining a Swedish First Division Club, IKF Vasteras, Rinemhota earned plaudits from the…
