HARARE – President Robert Mugabe flew to Addis Ababa on Wednesday to attend the 24th ordinary session of the African Union. He is due to be enthroned AU chairman at the summit. Mugabe, who returned from his annual holiday in the Far East last week before proceeding to the inauguration of the newly elected Zambian…
HARARE – Buffalo Souljah has promised to hit back at Nigerian dancehall artiste, Burna Boy, who allegedly attacked him at an all-white party held by rapper Da Les in South Africa. The Zimbabwean multi-continental award winning artiste came out guns blazing against the Nigerian artiste, in the latest beef to hit Africa’s dancehall scene. “It…
HARARE – Harare police are threatening a crackdown on delinquent dancers and club-owners who promote “moral decadence”. This follows the arrest of Shantel Chirimuta, a Chocolate Barbes dancing crew member who allegedly became intimate with a patron on stage. At a meeting on Friday with the dance sector’s stakeholders, police stressed the importance of maintaining…
HARARE – Music piracy and the difficult economic situation prevailing in the country are threatening the viability of record company businesses. Emion Sibindi, Metro Studios’ director said since 2004, they had cut their workforce by 50 percent so as to sustain operations. Sibindi told the Daily News that as a result of the economic challenges…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s hard pressed government has started effecting the disputed 15 percent value added tax (VAT) on foreign tourists despite attempts by tour operators to block the levy. Hospitality industry players argue that the tax — levied on foreign tourists’ accommodation — could make Zimbabwe a more expensive tourism destination, dampening efforts to revive…
HARARE – The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) says defunct Trust Bank Corporation Limited (Trust Bank) shareholders have until April 8, 2015 to secure new investors. Trust Bank, owned by William Nyemba’s Trust Holdings Limited (THL), was placed under provisional liquidation by the High Court in October 2013. “The major shareholders of the bank may……
HARARE – A French business delegation — including executives from multi-nationals Alstom and Bureau Veritas — was expected in Zimbabwe yesterday on a mission to explore investment opportunities. The business people, in the country for three days, are set to meet several government ministers and managers of top Zimbabwean and international companies, with the support…
HARARE – Zimbabwe faces a herculean task of managing the country’s first complex succession politics from more than three decades of President Robert Gabriel Mugabe’s iron rule to a new leader in the not so distant future. Even though the Constitution is crystal clear in terms of the transitional provisions in the event of death,…
HARARE – Zimbabweans say they are sick and tired of Zanu PF leaders expending all their energy and time fighting each other viciously at the expense of fixing the country’s battered economy, creating jobs, upgrading roads, providing clean water and maintaining health facilities at acceptable standards. In interviews with the Daily News last week, analysts,…
HARARE – Analysts say the surprising outcome of Tuesday’s Zanu PF primary elections in Mt Darwin was ultimately a slap in the face of President Robert Mugabe himself and the fact that he could no longer take for granted his leadership of the party. This sentiment followed the dramatic loss by perceived allies of Vice…
