HARARE – Sports Minister Andrew Langa has played down the controversies that surrounded the African Union Sports Commission (AUSC) Region V Youth Games that were held in Bulawaup earlir this month. Langa also assured all individuals and corporate companies still owed for rendering their services that they will be paid. Bulawayo hosted the AUSC with…
HARARE – Zimbabwe junior karatekas failed to secure sponsorship for them to travel to Russia for this year’s fourth edition of Kyokushin Under-17 World Youth Championships that began on Friday. The five karatekas, who failed to secure funds for air tickets, are Beavan Sibanda, Trish Muhambi, Tanaka Maponga, Brendon Jambo and Simba Chadzamira. “It pains…
HARARE – AfrAsia Zimbabwe Holdings Limited (AZHL) is disposing its micro-lending unit MicroKing Finance, with potential buyers expected in the country to conduct due diligence by mid-January 2015. Its chief executive, Lynn Mukonoweshuro, said the interested investors were from the region and overseas. “During the course of December and early January shortlisted investors will visit…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s petrol price may fall to as low as $1,48 per litre while diesel may average $1,32 in 2015, if crude oil prices remain depressed on the world market, the Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera) said Friday. Gloria Magombo, Zera chief executive, said the benefits of the declining international oil prices will trickle…
HARARE – Rising dancehall artiste Tocky Vibes delivered a weak performance during Friday’s Lockdown Concert headlined by South African House music group Mafikizolo. The 21-year-old artiste, who was given the honour of being the last act in a bill that also featured music superstar Oliver Mtukudzi and fit-again Alexio Kawara, failed to rise to the…
HARARE – Eight-year-old Junior Mwase, who is probably Zimbabwe’s youngest published author, has entered into a marketing agreement with Inov8 Bookshop. Under the arrangement, Innov8, which has seven branches in Bulawayo and Harare, will sell young Mwase’s two books titled The Book of Life: Story Book and The Book of Life: Colouring Book. Mwase, a…
BULAWAYO – Writers Togara Muzanenhamo and John Eppel have come up with a poetry collection titled Textures which has been published by Bulawayo-based AmaBooks Publishers. The new collection by the two highly-regarded Zimbabwean poets has also been released internationally through the African Books Collective. AmaBooks co-director Brian Jones told the Daily News that his organisation…
HARARE – The late South African iconic president and unifier — Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela — was loved for forgiving and practicing peace. It was no wonder when he died that for a moment, the world stopped to pay tribute to a man who lost personal glory for the love of a united South Africa, and…
HARARE – Information minister Jonathan Moyo has set tongues wagging with his comments at the weekend that Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s rise to the position did not mean that he would automatically take over from President Robert Mugabe when the 90-year-old leaves office. Analysts who spoke to the Daily News yesterday were baffled by why…
HARARE – As expected President Robert Mugabe yesterday fired seven more ministers as the purge against people aligned to former vice president Joice Mujuru continues. In a statement released by the Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet Misheck Sibanda, the seven were sacked in terms of Section 108(1) (a) of the Constitution of Zimbabwe…
