HARARE – Organisers of the inaugural Jesus in Jazz Concert say the event, set for the Rainbow Cinema on Saturday, will trigger a wider appreciation of jazz among gospel music fans. The unique concert put together by Shownation Entertainment Company will feature RnB artiste Audius Mtawarira, Cynthia Mare, the Celebration Choir and award-winning gospel music…
HARARE – Music superstar Oliver “Tuku” Mtukudzi is an entertainer on demand. The 62-year-old musician, who has over 61 albums under his name, begins his busy weekend schedule tonight by headlining the first anniversary celebrations of The Centurion, an upmarket pub and bar located opposite Harare Sports Club. Tuku’s manager, Sam Mataure, told the Daily…
HARARE – Over 20 performance poets will clash at the Book Café on Saturday during the monthly House of Hunger Poetry Slam. The afternoon event will bring together poets from Harare and beyond in this month’s edition which will celebrate the World Poetry Movement. Participants in the House of Hunger Poetry Slam will be judged…
MUTARE – Seven Mutare youth groups have teamed up to form a 40-member interdenominational choir called Power to Worship. The multi-genre choral group, which is similar to the popular Harare-based ZimPraise, will be officially launched in August this year. Power to Worship president, Hewitt Chigeza, 20, told the Daily News that the choir’s first album…
HARARE – Meikles Limited (Meikles)’ mining subsidiary Meikles Centar Mining (MCM) plans to invest $100 million in a chrome mining venture. This comes as MCM has acquired a 75 percent stake in an undisclosed company that owns chrome claims on the Great Dyke. The group’s chairman John Moxon said exploration on the chrome claims had…
HARARE – Essar Africa Holdings Limited (Essar) executives are expected in Zimbabwe this Friday to engage the Mines ministry over plans to establish a thermal power station in the country. The Indian steel giant, which acquired a 54 percent stake in Zimbabwe’s iron processor NewZim Steel – formerly Ziscosteel —in a $750 million deal, intends…
HARARE – Zimbabwe lacks comprehensive policies that govern the registration and operation of foreign firms, the Zimbabwe Investment Authority (ZIA) says. Richard Mbaiwa, the Authority’s chief executive, told a Foreign Affairs parliamentary portfolio committee yesterday that government must formulate policies that compel registration of start-up business, urgently realign laws to create a one stop investment…
HARARE – The Baba Jukwa scandal took centre stage in Parliament yesterday with Justice Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa telling legislators that authorities will leave no stone unturned in unravelling the saga. Mnangagwa was responding to a question by Kuwadzana East Member of Parliament, Nelson Chamisa who demanded to know whether any senior government officials or ministers…
HARARE – Fiery Zanu PF legislator, Joseph Chinotimba yesterday said the Information and Media Panel of Inquiry (Impi) was wasting tax payers’ money by embarking on a non-essential programme when the money could be better used to fund war veterans’ children. Chinotimba raised the matter in Parliament during question time. He questioned the logic behind…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe yesterday issued a stern warning to Cabinet ministers who are in the habit of protecting the few remaining white farmers, saying he is going to descend heavily on them. As he launched the new A1 settlement permit model at Chipfundi Resettlement Farm in Lions’ Den Mashonaland West, the 90-year-old strongman…
