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Fungisai set to release gospel, secular albums

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HARARE – Throughout her 15-year gospel music career, Fungisai Zvakavapano-Mashavave has never shied away from controversy. The former Mutoko High School student has repeatedly divided public opinion by spotting dreadlocks and integrating the mbira sound into her music, acts viewed with skepticism by some Christians. In keeping with her appetite for the unusual, the Makomborero…

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Mobile operators record $248m revenue

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HARARE – Zimbabwe’s three mobile network operators’(MNOs) combined revenue surged by nine percent to $248 million in the third quarter to September 2014 on the back on increased investment, the Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (Potraz) has revealed. According to the regulatory body, the three — Econet Wireless (Econet), Telecel and State-owned Net*One — recorded…

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Zim stuck in tragedy of perception

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HARARE – Towards the end of last year, the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) introduced a range of bond coins, a move which has been met with mixed reactions by the public. Some have explained it as a ploy by government to cream the public off the few coins in rand and US dollar denominations,…

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Telecel International execs expected in Zim

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HARARE – A Telecel International (TI) delegation is expected in Zimbabwe today to brief regulators of its plans to offload its local unit, the Daily News has learnt. This comes as the regional telecoms player’s parent Vimpelcom has signalled plans to divest from the industry and there is growing uncertainty over Telecel Zimbabwe (Telecel)’s licence…

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Govt to seize remaining white-owned farms

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MARONDERA – Amid an aura of calculated menace, Joel Biggie Matiza, State minister for Mashonaland East, announced today government’s intention to press ahead with plans to seize Zimbabwe’s remaining white-owned commercial farms. “We have invited all the chiefs in the province to this ceremony where we are honouring the chiefs by returning land to the…

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‘Mnangagwa not yet there’

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HARARE – The former confidante to President Robert Mugabe, Didymus Mutasa, has proffered his insights into Zanu PF’s thorny succession question — saying bluntly that acting president Emmerson Mnangagwa was far from being guaranteed to succeed the long-ruling nonagenarian. In an interview with the Daily News yesterday, the surprisingly polite and softly-spoken liberation struggle stalwart…

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Zim divided over corporal punishment ban

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HARARE – Zimbabwe is divided over a new law banning corporal punishment, even in schools. Section 53 of the Zimbabwe Constitution abolishes corporal punishment, and guarantees the right to freedom from torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. “No law may permit the right to be tortured or subjected to cruelty, inhuman or…

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Madzibaba Ishamea to remain in custody

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HARARE – Madzibaba Ishamea Mufani will further languish in remand prison after a Harare magistrate yesterday deferred his trial  to February 3. Mufani is being charged with public violence after members of his Apostolic sect beat up police officers, journalists and Apostolic Christian Council of Zimbabwe (Accz) officials who had gone to shut down his…

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Biti, Mangoma tussle for presidency

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HARARE – The tussle for the leadership of MDC renewal team is allegedly threatening to stall the party’s reunification efforts with the Welshman Ncube-led MDC — with Tendai Biti and Elton Mangoma said to be going toe-to-toe for the president’s post. With the renewal team expected to go for its inaugural elective congress in April,…

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Mutodi applies for discharge

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HARARE – Energy Mutodi — accused of swindling homeseekers of over $500 000, has applied for discharge at the close of the State’s case, arguing the allegations were civil in nature and should never have been brought before a criminal court. Mutodi is jointly charged with his company National Housing and Development Trust (NHDT) and…

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