HARARE – The weak performance of property firms listed on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) continues as high prices, debt and a tougher operating environment deters investment, analysts said. According to stock broking firm IH Group (IHG), the sector’s year-on-year to June 2014 contribution to the local bourse’s turnover went down 15,41 percent while it…
HARARE – Superstar Oliver Mtukudzi, crowd-puller Jah Prayzah and Zim Dancehall stalwart Winky D top the list of over 25 musicians who will perform at this year’s Harare Agricultural Show. Zimbabwe’s premier agricultural show will run from August 22 to 30 under the theme: Sustaining and Transforming Agricultural Growth. Heather Madombwe, the Zimbabwe Agriculture Society…
BULAWAYO – This year’s edition of the Dreams To Fame, one of Zimbabwe’s biggest talent search shows, kicks off on Saturday at Amakhosi Cultural Centre in Bulawayo. The event, which is very popular among youngsters in the City of Kings, runs for 20 weeks every year from August to December. Dreams to Fame organisers are…
HARARE – Daily News columnist Pamela Samasuwo-Nyawiri has used proceeds from the lucrative Nottingham Trent University Vice-Chancellor’s Award she won recently to set up a fund to assist emerging African fashion and accessory designers. Samasuwo-Nyawiri, who graduated in Fashion Accessory Design on July 25, has created the Generation Africa Fashion Fund which will be spearheaded…
HARARE – Government is in the process of establishing a national cultural policy and setting up a language council with the mandate to protect the right of creators to their intellectual property, a Cabinet minister has said. In a speech read on his behalf during the Zimbabwe International Book Fair (ZIBF) Indaba in Harare on…
HARARE – Top Harare lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa yesterday roasted former Mines minister Obert Mpofu and accused him of breaching the law by dissolving the Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporation (ZMDC) and illegally running the parastatal. Mtetwa said this while cross examining Mpofu, who is now the Transport minister, in the on-going trial of Core Mining and…
HARARE – Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai met yesterday with Britain’s Minister for Africa Mark Simmonds in London to try to push forward an internationally-brokered initiative to resolve the deepening economic crisis in Zimbabwe. Simmonds, who is also secretary in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, reportedly backed the idea to identify brokers among leaders of the…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) yesterday denied that it was pursuing Prophet Emmanuel Makandiwa’s United Family International Church’s (UFIC) incomes following reports that officers from the revenue authority wanted to garnish the church’s account. Reports indicated yesterday that Zimra officials had in the past few weeks visited UFIC offices in Harare demanding books…
HARARE – In a surprising turn of events, the Zimbabwe Media Commission (ZMC) has become the latest body to snipe at and query the need for Information minister Jonathan Moyo’s Information and Media Panel of Inquiry (Impi) set up in December to promote high journalism standards in the country. In a letter penned two weeks…
HARARE – Legislators have been exempted from paying tollgate fees. This follows a request tabled by parliamentarians seeking an exemption ostensibly because they would be performing parliamentary duties. Transport minister Obert Mpofu told legislators recently that they should submit number plates for their respective vehicles to Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) so that they are…
