JOHANNESBURG – First Division club Black Leopards have completed the signing of defender Thomas ‘Rambo’ Sweswe on a deal running up to the end of the season. The Zimbabwean – who holds South African permanent residence – has already been registered with the PSL and is immediately available for Leopards’ league match against Thanda Royal…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe team that recently returned from the African continental Championships held in Giba Gorge Durban South Africa brought home a bronze medal and earned the country some UCI points. A team of 12 riders made the trip and these include Elite riders Scott Donaldson, Anthony Timothy, Simon Martin and Tawanda Marova. In…
LUSAKA – Zambian Vice-President Guy Scott has been named acting leader following the death of President Michael Sata. Presidential elections to choose a permanent successor will be held within 90 days, Defence Minister Edgar Lungu said. Mr Scott becomes Africa’s first white head of state since FW de Klerk in apartheid South Africa. Mr Sata…
HARARE – Female jazz sensation, Prudence Katomeni-Mbofana, will release videos of her self-titled album before year-end. The soulful diva told the Daily News videos of the album Prudence which was released in 2011 were delayed because of motherhood engagements. “I have been working on videos for the last album because I think I delayed the…
HARARE – Indeed the dead stay dumb! Marshal Munhumumwe, the late Four Brothers leader is long gone and there is no way he can be resurrected to save the once inimitable musical band from its current financial woes. Once a popular band, The Four Brothers band is teetering on the brink of collapse after hitting…
HARARE – Prominent Zimbabwean writers will grace the reading event slated for the Book Café in Harare tomorrow. The reading event is organised by the Zimbabwe Writers Association (ZWA) and is set to bring prominent writers, Vitalis Nyawaranda, Virginia Phiri and Tinashe Muchuri to the capital’s arts hub. Nyawaranda has been writing and publishing variably…
HARARE – A few weeks ago, I recounted a conversation I once had with an old friend, William Bango, who is now sadly departed. I had just taken up a new role and had done a few weeks when he approached me with a word of advice. “Magaisa,” he said, “Do not let them drag…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s 2015 national budget funding is under threat as government continues to miss revenue targets, economists warn. The country — whose forthcoming year’s budget is traditionally presented between November and December — is running on a cash budget after failing to secure external support, but tax income is dwindling on the back of…
HARARE – South Africa (SA) says it is willing to assist Zimbabwe in developing and growing its diamond industry. This comes as Zimbabwe — once believed to have capacity to supply more than 25 percent of the world’s alluvial diamonds — plans to resume local gem auctions after facing challenges on international markets, particularly in…
HARARE – Since women met at the emotive Beijing Conference in 1997 to map out strategies to wrestle concessions from men regarding their justified desire to participate in influential positions in various aspects of life, they have made significant progress towards that goal. The number of women that have breached an erstwhile restrictive social policy…
