HARARE – Weak education policies at secondary school level are suppressing the pursuit of performance arts as a career option by talented children, a senior education official has said. Isaiah Mhembere, Manicaland provincial education officer in charge of arts and culture, made the remarks during the inaugural edition of Manicaland Secondary Schools Folk Dance and…
HARARE – Only old timers can remember the late gospel musician Brian Sibalo, whose gospel hits rocked the airwaves in the 80’s. Since his death in 1997, Sibalo’s music has continued to play in the hearts of old gospel lovers who believe the musician’s life was cut short. Sibalo’s hit Tinokutendai Baba a song he…
BULAWAYO – Bambata Actors Centre director Styx Mhlanga has completed casting Athol Fugard’s Master Harold and the Boys, a play which is a Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) ‘O’ Level set book. The award-winning Mhlanga is confident that the conversion of the classic ‘O’ Level set book into a stage play enhances understanding of the…
HARARE – Rooftop Promotions director Daves Guzha claims the 2012 closure of Theatre in the Park that his organisation had run in the Harare Gardens for 17 years affected the livelihoods of 900 people. Guzha told the Daily News that the impact of the closure of one of Zimbabwe’s leading theatre brands has been underestimated….
HARARE – Tax collector, Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra), has warned of a tough economic environment ahead as government faces shrinking revenue inflows. Gershom Pasi, the authority’s commissioner-general, told Parliament yesterday that despite surpassing the 2014 first quarter revenue target — yet to be disclosed — by two percent, Zimra is likely to miss tax income…
HARARE – SABMiller’s Zimbabwean unit Delta Corporation (Delta) has received an excise duty reprieve from government, a development analysts say will grow the beverages maker’s bottom line. Last Friday, Harare suspended duty on bottler grade sugar for six months. Delta, along with fellow juices maker Schweppes Zimbabwe Limited, will be allowed to import a maximum…
HARARE – It is a historical fact that the Daily News had a frosty relationship with Information, Media and Broadcasting Services minister Jonathan Moyo, prior to our forced and unjust shutting down in September 2003, for eight long years, by President Robert Mugabe’s government. To that extent, there was, understandably, some trepidation within independent media…
MARONDERA – Can recent media reports on the brainwave from the new head of Zifa really be true? Apparently newly re-elected Zifa president Cuthbert Dube is going to embark on farming projects in order to turn Zifa’s fortunes around. Not being a football person, I never thought farming had anything at all do with football…
HARARE – Welshman Ncube’s MDC is waking up from its deep slumber after the devastating July 31 poll defeat, and promises to soldier on with the political struggle for democratic change. Nhlanhla Dube, the party’s spokesperson, said in a statement that his party held a standing committee meeting over the weekend which resolved that Zanu…
HARARE – Ali Sadiki, the FC Platinum and Warriors midfielder, has offered $200 for his girlfriend’s maintenance, after arguing that he could not pay child support for a baby currently residing with his mother. Sadiki was last Friday dragged before the Harare Civil Court by his girlfriend Sharon Chiwanza, who is demanding $1 117 in…
