HARARE – As the tumultuous year 2014 comes to an end, the Daily News, Zimbabwe’s most popular and influential newspaper will on January 15, honour outstanding personalities — who have been beacons of success and managed to change people’s lives in a country bogged a massive economic meltdown. This year’s ratings are different as your…
HARARE – Bricks manufacturer Willdale Limited (Willdale)’s revenue went up three percent to $7 million in the year to September 2014 from $6,8 million realised prior year. Alexander Jongwe, the group’s chairman, said sales volumes were seven percent up on the prior year, but average prices declined by four percent due to a product mix…
HARARE – Despite being based in far-flung Oregon in the United States of America (USA), Chimurenga music legend Thomas Mapfumo can still feel the turmoil being created by Zimbabwe’s political elite. The veteran musician has released a single titled Hatidi Politics which aptly describes Zimbabwe’s political drama the highlights of which have been the purges…
HARARE – At 90, President Robert Mugabe deserves from time to time, to rest and his annual leave which takes part of December and January is a necessity given the complexities of being chief executive of a nation whose economy is in the intensive care unit. After a turbulent 2014, which climaxed in an unprecedented…
LONDON – Writing in The Guardian newspaper, Stephen Pollard noted that great power comes with great paranoia. He refers to fears of autocrats such as the later former Venezualan ruler, Hugo Chavez, former Cuban strongman Fidel Castro and North Korean Kim Jong-Il. Some of the fear borders on lunacy, he notes. For instance, Chavez suggested…
HARARE – Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC is salivating at the prospects of contesting dozens of by-elections across the country should the brutal infighting within President Robert Mugabe’s ruling Zanu PF party result in the booting out of up to 100 ruling party legislators from Parliament. So bad has Zanu PF’s factional and succession wars…
HARARE – Ordinary Zimbabweans and major opposition parties have roundly condemned the First Family’s penchant for glitzy and extravagant State-funded jaunts in faraway countries, at a time the country’s economy is well and truly in the doldrums. Yesterday, the Daily News ran pictures of the First Family having a fabulous time in an expensive restaurant…
HARARE – Zanu PF Harare youths led by controversial Godwin Gomwe have been accused of extorting up to $3 000 per day from commuter omnibus (Kombis) drivers as guarantee for protection. Moses Mutyasira secretary- general of Indigenous Commuter Operators Association said the party activists, had invaded Market Square, Copacabana, Rezende and Fourth Street bus termini…
BULAWAYO – Farmers in Matabeleland region have been gripped by fears of a poor harvest after the rains came late, agricultural officials have said. Bulawayo experienced the first patchy rains in mid-November followed by a prolonged dry spell before a substantial downpour over the past fortnight. Matabeleland Provincial Agricultural Extension Officer Dumisani Mbikwa told the…
JARKATA – At least 40 bodies have been recovered from the sea in the search for missing AirAsia Flight QZ8501, the Indonesian navy says. The bodies were spotted along with debris floating in the Java Sea off the Indonesian part of Borneo, in one of the search zones for the plane. There has been no…
