HARARE – United Kingdom (UK) band, The Layabouts, will headline what has been dubbed the “biggest house music party of the year” on September 27, the last day of Shoko Festival. The highly rated UK group will also feature Bulawayo’s Djembe Monks and Zimbabwe’s DJ Jason Leroux who is expected to unleash high-tempo deep house,…
HARARE – Zimbabwe is targeting to produce nearly 240 million kilogrammes (kg) of tobacco in the 2014/15 season on the back of increased cropping. This comes after the country surpassed a targeted 200 million kg this year — the first time in a decade — to produce 216 million kg of the golden leaf. Andrew…
HARARE – Listed Zimre Property Investments Limited (ZPI) is seeking $5 million to develop residential properties as part of strategies to boost revenue. Edson Muvingi, the group’s managing director, said the project — involving servicing of 238 stands in Ruwa — is expected to ease the national housing backlog, estimated at 1,3 million. He said…
HARARE – Crocodile skin products producer Padenga Holdings Limited (Padenga) incurred a $2,4 million loss in the half year to June 2014 compared to a $2,1 million profit realised in prior comparable. The Zimbabwe Stock Exchange-listed group’s chairman, Ken Calder, said the depressed performance was on the back of changes in the culling season. He…
HARARE – To give credit where it is due, Tourism minister Walter Mzembi is a “reasonable” individual, as his ideas are often impressive and captivating. But it is quite clear that he might not have known what he is getting himself into when he announced the race to enter the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations…
HARARE – For the past few months, depositors, mainly with Metbank and AfriAsia, have had to endure long queues to access their hard-earned funds while the RBZ keeps watching from a distance. In the past few days, things have gotten worse at AfrAsia, as it battles to meet a low self-imposed withdrawal limit of between…
HARARE – First Lady Grace Mugabe’s PhD thesis is mysteriously missing on the University of Zimbabwe (UZ) website. While Vice President Joice Mujuru’s thesis, who graduated along with the first lady with a doctorate, is available on the UZ website, a search for Grace’s thesis yesterday yielded nothing. Grace’s controversial doctorate from the flagship University…
HARARE – It’s now game on in Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC after the party rejected plans to handpick members of the standing committee instead of electing them through popular vote. The decision, taken yesterday by the National Council, paves way for elections at the October congress. Efforts by the party’s deputy national chairman Morgen Komichi to…
HARARE – Epworth residents yesterday resisted demolitions of their houses, arguing that they are being victimised for supporting the MDC. The residents, numbering over 100, barricaded and stopped local board workers and the police from pulling down their houses in Domboramwari section. When the Daily News crew arrived, the residents had grouped under a tree,…
HARARE – Chitungwiza General Hospital doctors completed surgery to remove fatty cells weighing 45,5 kilogrammes from a Norton woman’s stomach yesterday. The surgery was performed by three doctors headed by the clinical director Edward Tadros, two nurses and two anaesthetists. The surgeon who removed the fatty cells said the growth was attached to 37-year-old Josephine…
