HARARE – Urban Groves star Cindy Munyavi will share the stage tonight with rappers Mudiwa and Dj Naida at the Miss Women’s University in Africa pageant to be hosted by the Book Café. Before the beauty pageant, the popular Harare entertainment venue will be rocked by mbira sounds delivered by Mawungira eNharira at the Garden…
HARARE – Zimbabwe International Book Fair (ZIBF) says it is facilitating the reform of the local book industry in a bid to combat rampant book piracy. Chairman of the ZIBF executive board Musaemura Zimunya made the remarks during a press conference on Wednesday to announce their state of preparedness for this year’s event that will…
HARARE – Zimbabweans are in for a nightmarish “black” winter, with soccer fans salivating at the prospects of an exhilarating 2014 Soccer World Cup likely to miss out completely on this football jamboree as beleaguered power utility, Zesa Holdings (Zesa), imposes diabolic power cuts. The State-owned electricity firm published a horrendous load-shedding schedule this week…
HARARE – The wives of 24 members of the Madzibaba Ishamea Mufani’s Johanne Masowe Church, whose husbands were granted $100 bail at the High Court yesterday, have appealed for financial help to secure their release. Spouses of the freed men are appealing to the public to help them with a total of $2 400 to…
HARARE – Civil servants should brace themselves for challenging times ahead as government continues to shift pay dates, piling more misery on the already hard-pressed government workers. Civil servants, who include nurses and ex-government workers, will be paid late over the next six months and will only receive their December salaries way after Christmas this…
HARARE – A Harare magistrate will on Monday rule on an application for refusal of further remand lodged by Associated Newspapers of Zimbabwe (ANZ) group editor, Stanley Gama in a criminal defamation case. ANZ are publishers of the Daily News, the Daily News on Sunday and the Weekend Post. Gama and senior writer Fungi Kwaramba…
HARARE – The Constitutional Court yesterday ruled that the use of criminal defamation laws has a “stifling and chilling effect” on free speech in Zimbabwe. In the landmark ruling that has been welcomed by the media fraternity, the full Con-Court bench ruled in favour of The Standard editor Nevanji Madanhire and his reporter Nqaba Matshazi,…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF Youth League yesterday unveiled an ambitious $2,4 billion revolving agricultural facility under a joint venture with Lasch Enterprises Pvt Ltd. The project, which is on a guarantee-only basis, is targeting 800 000 farmers, with each farmer due to get $3 000 each in the first season. Zanu PF…
HARARE – Opposition MDC party youths have threatened to unfurl street protests against President Robert Mugabe’s administration over the mounting economic hardships. Clifford Hlatshwayo, MDC youth assembly spokesperson, told a news conference yesterday that the youths were hurting. “The economic meltdown is affecting everyone,” Hlatshwayo told reporters at the party’s headquarters in Harare. “We have…
HARARE – The World Bank has warned Zimbabwe against mortgaging its minerals, saying this jeopardises future generations’ welfare. Nadia Piffaretti, the World Bank’s senior economist, told a news conference on Wednesday that the hard-pressed southern African nation would be better advised to seek loans at concessionary rates instead of securitising its minerals to secure loans….
