MASVINGO – Sungura music outfit, Orchestra Mafarochete will represent Masvingo Province at the Chibuku Road to Fame national finals to be held at Glamis Stadium in Harare on September 27. The Mashava-based musical group claimed the $1 000 first prize after shrugging off stiff competition from eight other groups during the Chibuku Road to Fame…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s unrestrained attacks on Information minister Jonathan Moyo reveal a dramatic shift in the balance of power in Zanu PF, with vice president Joice Mujuru’s faction earning the president’s ear, analysts have said. The “nucleus” of the plot is inside a faction headed by Mujuru, which is baying for Moyo’s blood…
HARARE – The nine MDC youths who were accused of assaulting expelled former party deputy treasurer-general Elton Mangoma in February, have, almost predictably, been found not guilty of the charge. We say predictably because Mangoma’s case always looked doomed and amateurishly spiced-up and put together from day one, seemingly for maximum political gain. No wonder…
HARARE – Flamboyant Gokwe Nembudziya Zanu PF MP Justice Mayor Wadyajena is being haunted by the taxman, and could be thrown out of his transport business by the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) which has had him sequestrated over a $1,6 million VAT bill. Wadyajena, who chairs Parliament’s influential portfolio committee on Youth, Indigenisation and Economic…
HARARE – Traditional leaders in Zvimba have told Local Government minister Ignatius Chombo to accept their preferred chief for the Beperere chieftaincy. Chief Zvimba, born Stanley Mhondoro, told the Daily News after a meeting in Murombedzi yesterday that the resolutions from an April 4 meeting with President Robert Mugabe to install Harare provincial administrator Alfred…
HARARE – Two Cabinet ministers yesterday clashed with a Goromonzi-based gold miner who is refusing to comply with an order to halt destructive mining operations along a river course. The drama occurred after deputy Environment minister Simon Musanhu and minister of State for Mashonaland East Province Simbaneuta Mudarikwa, in the company of other government officials,…
HARARE – Businessman-cum musician Energy Mutodi contributed to the collapse of housing projects by pocketing money receipted into National Housing Development Trust (NHDT) by desperate home seekers, a Harare magistrate heard yesterday. Mutodi is answering charges of swindling home-seekers of $588 787 in failed housing development schemes. He is jointly charged with Boniface Chikono, a…
HARARE – Soon after the death of former Cabinet minister and journalist Nathan Marwirakuwa Shamuyarira last week, the bad road that leads to his Borrowdale home was hastily patched up to allow for the safe passage of President Robert Mugabe and other VIPs. We are told his house also was hastily painted, while his body…
HARARE – The use of sexual violence in war is one of the great injustices of our lifetime. It is hard to document, let alone investigate. Perpetrators do not discriminate, because it’s not about sex, but violence, terror, power and control. When rape is committed during conflict, it has often been seen as an inevitable…
HARARE – Any good travel writer will tell you that the best way to get the real feel of a country is to take a road trip because in that way you see the real things not just the tourist spots and you meet and interact with the local people. When a tourist to Zimbabwe…
