HARARE – This year’s edition of Hifa 2014 will see different designs from Vintage to High Fashion being showcased. The Hifa Fashion Festival is a celebration of high quality design and local swag. Over the last few years, Hifa has become an important platform for fashion and style. The festival is also an unrivalled opportunity…
HARARE – Theatre in the Park will be introducing a children’s slot during its mid-June return. Theatre in the Park closed in 2012. It was a well-known theatre venue running a week of local theatre. Previously, it exclusively catered for adults and evening audiences, with children having little fun there. “We are reintroducing lunchtime theatre,…
HARARE – Three-time National Arts Merit Award (Nama)-winning sculptor Forbes Mushipe is looking forward to bag more awards in future. Mushipe first won a Nama award in 2011 with his mixed media master piece titled Barika while Melodies From the Mermaid landed him another accolade the following year. In 2013, Mushipe won the award with…
HARARE – Zimbabwe must increase taxes on diamond mining companies to cushion the poor and mobilise enough resources for social service delivery, a lobby group has said. The Zimbabwe Coalition on Debt and Development (Zimcodd) in its April report said diamond revenues were not benefiting the poor. “Diamond mining is still shrouded in secrecy thereby…
HARARE – Government must implement policies that enforce investor protection if it is to attract meaningful foreign direct investment, the Zimbabwe Investment Authority (Zia) said. This comes as lack of respect for property rights, coupled with the indigenisation policy, are among the major factors that have rendered the investment-starved country investor unfriendly. Zia is a…
HARARE – Listening to Zimbabwean politicians, not least President Robert Mugabe, you wonder whether these people have learnt anything called diplomacy. You get the sense that these are people who have learnt nothing about the dynamics of the contemporary world. Zanu PF has failed to transform from a liberation movement to a governing outfit; the…
HARARE – Music piracy poses the biggest threat to Zimbabwe’s entertainment industry which has been in a comatose state for a long time. The failure by the responsible authorities to do anything meaningful to contain the problem that has led to the near-collapse of the music industry is the major reason why we are behind…
HARARE – Substandard football, bumpy pitches and primitive off-field antics have not been portraying the local game in good light at all. Truth be told, it has been a source of great shame and embarrassment to Zimbabwean football. Events from Sunday when CAPS United players allegedly poured urine on the Buffaloes team dugout at Gwanzura…
HARARE – A storm is brewing in the Harare City camp with coach Bigboy Mawiwi fighting to keep his job following a poor start to the 2014 Castle Premiership season. The Daily News understands that that Mawiwi has fallen out with a number of City club officials and senior players, who are now pushing for…
HARARE – Dynamos coach Calisto Pasuwa says his team needs to improve on their home form at the National Sports Stadium (NSS) where they have failed to win in their last two matches. The Harare giants first lost 1-0 to ZPC Kariba in a league match before a 3-0 penalty shootout loss to FC Platinum…
