HARARE – Controversial sungura artiste Jacob Moyana has released his debut Kana Muchitidako DVD which comprises five videos. He said it was a way of familiarising himself with fans and promoters. . “My music took the showbiz industry by storm but I am now getting worried as some bogus musicians are plotting my downfall by…
HARARE – Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has accused his rival President Robert Mugabe of remaining ensconced in State House and not trying hard enough to turn around Zimbabwe’s struggling economy. The former premier has warned that the domestic situation was deteriorating fast and was in danger of spinning out of control as Mugabe spurned calls…
HARARE – Parliamentarians yesterday toured the operations of major funeral parlours and were satisfied they were not polluting waters sources with chemicals used to wash dead bodies. Speaking after a familiarisation tour of Nyaradzo, Moonlight and Doves Morgan funeral parlours in Harare yesterday, Zanu PF MP Anastancia Ndhlovu who chairs the parliamentary portfolio committee on…
HARARE – Police are hunting for two more people suspected to be behind the shadowy Facebook character and blogger “Baba Jukwa.” The blogger launched a cyber war targeting President Robert Mugabe, government ministers, senior government officials and security chiefs ahead of last year’s elections, and the State claims the Sunday Mail editor Edmund Kudzayi was…
HARARE – National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) urgently needs $10 billion for recapitalisation as well as offsetting a $144 million debt owed to service providers and employees. This came out when officials from the parastatal tendered oral evidence on their operations to the parliamentary portfolio committee on Transport yesterday. Lewis Mukwada, the NRZ acting general…
BULAWAYO – Zimbabwe’s second largest mobile network operator by subscriber base, Telecel, has been forced to pay council bills for base stations erected on municipal land without authority. Telecel has about 60 base stations dotted around the city, with the majority of them operating illegally for almost 15 years, according to the director of engineering…
HARARE – A contingent of chiefs yesterday asked Walter Mzembi, the Tourism minister, to spruce up Mutoko Ruins to attract tourists. Chief Mutoko, Phillemon Nyachoto and footballer Edward Sadomba, asked Mzembi during a courtesy call to start sprucing up Mutoko Ruins, lying 143km from Harare, to attract tourists. “I am humbled by the courtesy call…
HARARE – Chris Mutangadura, the government’s chief law officer, is to summon former Mines minister Obert Mpofu to testify in the ongoing trial of Core Mining and Minerals (Private) Limited director Lovemore Kurotwi, accused of defrauding the government of $2 billion. The trial was supposed to resume yesterday, but Mutangadura applied for a postponement to…
HARARE – A Seke man reportedly registered Econet lines on the EcoCash platform in the name of Cabinet ministers before using them to dupe unsuspecting people of more than $4 000. Blessing Musarurwa, 27, of Murisa Village under Chief Seke in Chitungwiza, yesterday appeared before Harare magistrate Donald Ndirowei facing $4 867 fraud charges. The…
HARARE – The lasting image of the last election that has remained largely ingrained in my mind is of the mammoth crowd that gathered in Harare on what we dubbed the Cross Over rally on July 29, 2013. It is an indelible image of a nation that was geared for change, a determined people on…
