HARARE – Controversial Zimdancehall star Soul Jah Love has been banned from performing at the Book Café after reporting three hours late for a show on Friday. The award-winning Soul Jah Love, who was born Soul Masaka, infuriated the management at Book Café after turning up at 11pm for a concert that was scheduled to…
HARARE – State-owned NetOne’s active subscribers have surpassed Telecel Zimbabwe (Telecel)’s to become the country’s second largest mobile network operator, according to latest statistics from the Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz). In its report for the quarter to September 2014, the telecoms industry regulator said NetOne’s active subscribers went up 13,8 percent…
HARARE – Innscor Africa Limited (Innscor)’s newly-appointed South African chief executive (CE), Antonio Fourie, is yet to secure a Zimbabwean work permit. Fourie told Business Live last week that he submitted the required papers to Zimbabwe’s Immigration Department and was waiting for the processing of the work permit. Foreigners are required to have a permit…
BULAWAYO – Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko has denied persistent charges by his critics that he participated in the massacre of an estimated 20 000 innocent civilians in the early 1980s, mainly in Matabeleland and the Midlands, during the infamous Gukurahundi offensive in the region by the army. Mphoko told scores of Zanu PF supporters gathered…
BULAWAYO – Police on Saturday swooped on members of the public who had gathered at Stanley Hall to conduct a memorial prayer for the victims of the Gukurahundi atrocities. This is the third time in a row that police have suppressed efforts by the pressure group Ibhetshu Likazulu to remember an estimated 20 000 civilians…
HARARE – Interfin Bank Limited (Interfin)’s ex-employees are pushing for the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) to publicise a forensic report outlining the abuse of $100 million. This comes as the apex bank last month refused to extend Interfin’s curatorship after potential investors baulked to inject fresh capital, paving way for its liquidation. In a…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe has congratulated Zambia for conducting “free and fair elections.” Defence and Justice minister Edgar Lungu, 58, won by a 48,3 percent majority, the Zambia election commission said, after an election race marred by delays. His rival, Hakainde Hichilema of the United Party for National Development, who earlier denounced Tuesday’s election…
HARARE – Vivian Mapaike, 23, a cancer survivor, shudders as she recalls how the disease almost tore her family apart. To her the battle was more than just a fight for life or a financial bug; she emerged with a broken heart and scars difficult to erase. “I recall a certain holiday when I visited…
HARARE – His wife fears one day he will walk to the shops and forget the way back home, but George Shaya just laughs it off, insisting he is still of sound mind. Shaya is considered by many to be the greatest Zimbabwean footballer of all time, but he could fail to recollect all those…
HARARE – Harare Sports Club chairman Donald Mangenje says Zimbabwean domestic rugby will resume this year despite the absence of a principal sponsor – while concerted efforts to secure finding are being made. The Zimbabwe Rugby Union (ZRU) last Thursday held an emergency meeting with clubs over plans to revive the country’s national league, which…
