HARARE – Tafadzwa Mukaro and her husband Wisdom have burst onto Zimbabwe’s gospel scene with a six-track debut album titled Mwari Anesu. Tafadzwa does the lead vocals on the album produced by Lyton Ngolomi with her equally-talented husband providing backing vocals. The just-released album contains well-thought-out tracks that include Iniwo Here, Mhinduro, Nhasi Uno, Ishe…
HARARE – Lillian Masitera has established herself as a story-teller of note in Zimbabwe. Her biggest weapon is her ability to top carve real-life characters, who have their flaws and all. The journey motif is not an unusual style in African fiction. With its roots in the folktale where even the animal characters could travel…
HARARE – Chemco Holdings Limited (Chemco) shareholders have approved the group’s plans to convert a debt owed to TSL Limited (TSL) into equity. Approximately 93,23 percent of Chemco’s minority shareholders accepted the share-swap deal. Accordingly, TSL will compulsorily acquire remaining Chemco minority shares in terms of section 194 of the Companies Act. Consequently, TSL owed…
EDITOR — MDC’s continuous struggle to maintain relevance in the political landscape is becoming more and more desperate by the day. Although they choose to ignore it, the writing is on the wall for them, the truth being that Morgan Tsvangirai and his cronies are now bankrupt of ideas on how to turn their fortunes…
HARARE – As we prepare to celebrate 34 years of independence, the country’s leadership, led by President Robert Mugabe and his Zanu PF party must reflect on aspirations of the liberation war heroes who perished in their fight for freedom. Great sons of Zimbabwe and real liberation struggle heroes like Josiah Magama Tongogara, Alfred Nikita…
LONDON – With another commemoration of independence a few days away, one of the biggest ironies of transition from colonial rule has been the retention of suppressive legal instruments of the past. If that was remarkable, the addition of our own stifling legal tools like the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act (Aippa)…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s government is so broke that it has ordered HIV/Aids patients on medical aid to buy their own Anti-Retroviral drugs (ARVs) as figures of those needing State assistance swell. Zimbabwe has 1,2 million people who need ARV therapy. This is a significant increase from the 600 000 who were either in…
HARARE – Local Government minister Ignatius Chombo’s threat to evict and demolish houses for “illegally-settled” Chitungwiza and Manyame rural residents has been branded unconstitutional by rights lawyers. Chombo issued a three-week ultimatum last week to Chitungwiza and Manyame Rural District Council residents to destroy their illegally-constructed houses. The houses in question are those built on…
HARARE – Zimbabwean laws are stifling the informal sector, Zimbabwe Revenue Authority boss Gershem Pasi said yesterday. Speaking at the National Business Council of Zimbabwe (NBCZ) symposium in the capital, Pasi said Zimbabwe’s laws were single-handedly destroying a “promising informal sector” “We may be preaching empowerment, yet the regulatory framework is killing the informal sector,”…
MASVINGO – About 20 000 flood victims relocated at Chingwizi transit camp in Mwenezi face imminent starvation amid revelations that food stocks are dangerously low. A visit to the camp last weekend where people are living in squalid conditions resembling a refugee camp, revealed that there was only less than a week’s supply of food….
