HARARE – Dynamos’ new signing, utility player Godknows Murwira, says he is excited to join a club he has long imagined himself being a part of – saying it was a dream to join the champions. Murwira recently sealed a move to the record Zimbabwean title winners on a two-year deal from relegated Shabanie Mine….
HARARE – St John’s golf sensation Kieran Vincent punched his weight at the 51st Junior Orange Bowl International Golf in Coral Gables, Florida, to romp to a sixth place finish. Battling against some the best 18 and under players in the world, the 17-year-old stood firm to close on one under par 283. In his…
HARARE – Zora star Leonard Zhakata’s songs Dhonza Makomborero and Dollar Boy respectively claimed first and second position in this year’s Coca-Cola Radio Zimbabwe Top 50. The two winning songs are from Zhakata’s latest seven-track album Zvangu Zvaita. The Zora singer, who last dominated music charts in similar fashion in the mid-1994 when he released…
HARARE – Rising songstress Cynthia Mare appears to have shrugged off the controversy that dogged the three awards she won at Last October’s Zimbabwe Music Awards (Zima). Mare turned up at the Zima ceremony very much an underdog but by the end of the night she had picked up three gongs in the Best Alternative…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s non-life reinsurers reported a 78,64 percent decrease in total profits in the nine months to September 2014 to $1,39 million from $6,50 million, further confirming the deteriorating economic conditions in the country. A latest report from the Insurance and Pensions Commission (Ipec) revealed that the decrease in profit after tax was mainly…
HARARE – The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) is set to prosecute non-compliant Foreign Exchange Companies (FECs) which failed to comply with a 90-day amnesty period that expired on December 30, 2014. The amnesty, which was effected on September 1 2014, was a follow-up to the central bank’s monetary policy statement stipulations that FECs had…
EDITOR — The current onslaught against the Daily News smacks of a desperate regime clutching on straws to save its already tattered image. Where in the world does the State fail to understand that the shareholding of a company can be obtained from the Registrar of Companies’ offices. This does not even need a rocket…
HARARE – My millions of apologies go to all readers of this column, as we approached the end of the year. I was not exactly AWOL (absent without official leave). If the truth be told, other people were absent from their stations when they should have been there. But, as an extremely forgiving African, I’ll…
HARARE – The year 2014 will go down as one of the worst Zimbabweans have had to endure since the introduction of the multiple currency system in 2009. Despite the country being endowed with vast natural and human resources, the majority of Zimbabweans continue to wallow in poverty with no hope of ever seeing things…
Sportsperson of the Year: Charles Manyuchi “DESPITE the struggle for money, talent will always prevail,” aptly describes Charles Manyuchi’s 2014 season that saw him overcame a mine field of financial hurdles to end a hugely satisfying year. His is a remarkable story. Hailing from Masvingo, without a gym or adequate training equipment, successfully defending the…
