HARARE – Charles and Olivia Charamba normally attract the biggest crowds in Zimbabwean gospel music but their pulling power proved no match to Walter Magaya’s Prophetic Healing and Deliverance (PHD) Ministries last Sunday. Zimbabwe’s gospel music’s first family held a family show at Takashinga Cricket Club in Highfield suburb at the same time Magaya was…
HARARE – Cassper Nyovest, widely regarded as South Africa’s biggest hip-hop artist, has issued a come-and-get-me plea to Zimbabwean music promoters. The rap star, who tops the nominations list of this year’s Channel O Music Video Awards along with Nigeria’s Davido, has taken to twitter to express his interest in performing in Zimbabwe. On September…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s economy continues to weaken in the absence of strong government policies as evidenced by earnings results released this month by listed stocks as all companies showed signs of stress. Economic experts say the Zanu PF-led government’s failure to halt economic decline is seriously hampering local companies’ efforts to increase production. The southern…
HARARE – Embattled construction firm Turnall Holdings (Turnall) is likely to report a full-year loss of $7 million after parent company FBC Holdings’ (FBCH) shareholders unanimously voted to divest from the firm. Herbert Nkala, FBCH chairman last week said the company, which recently parted ways with its managing director John Jere, is expected to turn…
EDITOR — Highlanders Football Club has continued with its disappointing performance this season, and it is time coach Kelvin Kaindu resigns. As Highlanders supporters we have been patient but the game over the weekend which our team lost to ZPC Kariba 3-1 was the final blow. The team has been losing to big teams such…
EDITOR – Zimbabwe boasts of having the highest literacy rate in Africa. For a country with a State president who holds a chain of degrees, the achievement comes not as a surprise to me. Whether people like or hate the president for his successes and failures as a person, when it comes to the strides…
LONDON – There is dispute on whether it was Albert Einstein who coined the saying that “insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results.” That controversy aside, it is an insightful aphorism. Now, President Robert Mugabe is not insane. He is one of the most intelligent rulers in Africa….
HARARE – Italian philosopher, diplomat and historian Niccolo di Bernardo dei Machiavelli advised politicians that in pursuit of power, brutality should be the name of the game. In Zimbabwe, we have witnessed such brutality as politicians use barbaric means to gain power. But what we are witnessing in President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF party has…
HARARE – There are real fears that the ugly infighting within President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF party has now come perilously close to degenerating into a fatal war that could see opponents organising hits against each other. This emerged after motormouth Hurungwe West legislator Temba Mliswa convened a media conference in Harare yesterday where he…
HARARE – Opposition supporters planning a protest against President Robert Mugabe’s government have accused authorities of pre-empting the action through religious leaders as police step up security. But opposition activists have vowed to press ahead with the mass action “soon” to express discontent and disgust over the prevailing state of affairs. Despite warnings of bloodshed…
