HARARE – Seasoned music lecturer and promoter Wellington “Bitumba” Maruta has released a six-track debut album that he claims will show Zimbabweans what genuine rhumba music is all about. The former Morgan Zintec College music lecturer says his album Rwemandorokwati demonstrates that he can practise what he taught in schools and colleges for a long…
HARARE – Samsung Africa Electronics (Samsung) says it will need to gain trust in government before optimally investing in Zimbabwe. The electronics group — targeting a $10 billion investment in Africa by 2015 — insisted that it will be careful in channelling capital in the local market, in which it commands a 52 percent share….
HARARE – Zimbabwe is among 10 least attractive mining investment destinations, ranking 106 out of 112 countries, according to the latest Fraser Institute survey. Among the 10 lowly- rated jurisdictions, the Canada-based think tank included Angola, Côte d’Ivoire and Madagascar. In its previous 2012/13 survey, Zimbabwe was also among the bottom 10 at 91 out…
HARARE – China has ruled out budgetary support to Zimbabwe. Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa, who recently returned empty-handed from Washington after being denied funding by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), has bging for external budgetary support to finance the ambitious Zimbabwe Agenda for Sustainable Socio-Economic Transformation (ZimAsset). The economic blue-print, launched last year by the…
HARARE – Zimbabwe needs about $18 billion to modernise its infrastructure and recapitalise, a top government official has said. Stanislaus Mangoma, director of Enterprise Development in the ministry of Industry and Commerce, told delegates during a World Bank seminar on trade and competitiveness held at a local hotel in Harare yesterday, that the hyper inflation…
EDITOR — I was shocked yesterday when I read the your paper and learnt that junior doctors are earning $283 per month which is way below the poverty datum line. I really think something should be done to ensure that doctorsget better wages. The government claims there is no money but funny enough, recently, two…
HARARE – Zimbabweans have been stunned by GOtv’s switch-off — launched amid great pomp and fanfare just over a year ago — by Multichoice Africa and Transmedia. Transmedia, on behalf of the Zimbabwe government, owns a 30 percent stake in GOtv while MultiChoice Africa and Skynet control 60 and 10 percent respectively. Under the agreement,…
HARARE – In 1919, an American journalist Upton Sinclair, who had over two decades experience in journalism, published the celebrated book The Brass Check: A Study of American Journalism. It showed the dark side of the profession, something that most readers of newspapers will never get to know. Fundamental questions that the book asked included…
HARARE – Dynamos chairperson Kenny Mubaiwa has branded the Glamour Boys players “inconsiderate” after they extended their strike into a second day in protest over unpaid winning bonuses. The industrial action has cost the club valuable preparation time ahead of Sunday’s crucial African Champions League first round, second leg clash away to Democratic Republic of…
HARARE – Zimbabwe got their 2015 African Nations Cup preparations off to a promising start with a convincing victory over Malawi at Kumuzu Stadium in an international friendly yesterday. Blending local and South African-based players for the first time since reaching the semi-finals of the African Nations Championships in February, the Warriors were off to…
