BULAWAYO – Crowd favourite Jah Prayzah repaid his Bulawayo fans by holding the second launch of his fifth album Kumbumura Mhute in the City of Kings on Thursday night. The album launch which came on the back of a similar event in Harare a day earlier, attracted a fairly big crowd. Jah Prayzah, who has…
HARARE – Daily News columnist Pamela Samasuwo-Nyawiri has been nominated by the Zimbabwe International Women’s Awards (Ziwa) in the Fashion Designer of the Year category. The United Kingdom-based Samasuwo-Nyawiri, who was the first African to be nominated for the prestigious Vogue and Muuse Talents Young Vision Accessories Award, will battle it out with Sharon Chironda…
MASVINGO – Rookie gospel musician Phanos Matura has released a six-track debut album titled Kunamata Kwakangwara. The new gospel artiste, who was backed by Prosperity Family, recorded the promising album at Unique Studios based in Zimbabwe’s oldest town. Matura is convinced that the album launched in the city last week has the competitive edge necessary…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s capital, Harare, turned into a boom city yesterday, with Prophet Emmanuel Makandiwa’s Judgement Night 2 at the National Sports Stadium being the major draw card. Makandiwa, a larger-than-life preacher, whose church attracts 50 000 worshippers weekly, started pulling in crowds into the mega stadium as early as 9am yesterday for an event…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe yesterday took an unusual step of showing support to expelled MDC rebels led by Elton Mangoma on the grounds that they had freedom of speech. The remarks raised eyebrows, given that Mugabe, in power for over three decades, is 90 but has not yet designated a successor in his own…
HARARE – Top South African gospel artiste Deborah Fraser (pictured) last night jetted into the country for tonight’s United Family International Church’s (UFIC) much-hyped Judgement Night 2. Fraser, who flew in with her full band at the invitation of UFIC leader Prophet Emmanuel Makandiwa, said she is honoured to be in Zimbabwe for this year’s…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe yesterday ruled out a one-size-fits-all indigenisation approach, saying only companies utilising the country’s natural resources will be required to immediately turn over majority stakes to indigenous Zimbabweans. Mugabe told a capacity crowd of 60 000 at the National Sports Stadium that there has been some confusion on how indigenisation should…
HARARE – Mike Gava, Zanu PF’s Mhondoro Ngezi Member of Parliament, is being held in police custody after running amok at the Kadoma Hotel and Conference Centre on Thursday, firing a volley of bullets, before kidnapping his ex-girlfriend. The Daily News is reliably informed that Gava was arrested after he fired three shots in the…
HARARE – Civil servants have described as “unacceptable” the second delay in a row in their pay dates, demanding that government immediately puts its house in order. This followed a statement by the Civil Service Commission secretary Pretty Sunguro, that all civil servants, who were supposed to get paid on Tuesday, will now access their…
BULAWAYO – A Pumula man was arrested on Wednesday for axing his 19-year-old gardener Mncedisi Sibindi after catching him in bed with his wife. In a police statement, Patrick Mbedzi, 48, said his wife Bridget Ndlovu was having an affair with Sibindi and he had caught them pants down in his bedroom before he took…
