BULAWAYO – Music fans in the City of Kings were left ruing their bad luck after music legend Oliver Mtukudzi pulled out from a pre-Valentine’s Day bash that also featured South African star Ringo Madlingozi due to illness. Tuku’s eleventh-hour withdrawal, while it clearly rattled the 300 plus crowd, appeared not to dampen the spirits…
HARARE – Struggling sungura musician Josphat Somanje says lack of professionalism hastened the break-up of the old Pengaudzoke band that he co-led with his brother Daiton. The Marondera-based musician is convinced that timely professional help could have helped to prevent the acrimonious fall out with his equally talented brother. “If we had received professional advice,…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s third largest telecommunications company, Telecel, is “technically insolvent” and needs about $300 million to stay afloat, businessdaily has learnt. This is at least according to information contained in Empowerment Corporation (EC) managing director Patrick Zhuwao’s court affidavit over the 40 percent sale and war. In the papers, the ex-deputy minister said the…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s 2015 tobacco selling season will officially open next month amid concerns of a poor crop production due to heavy rains that pounded the country in January. Traditionally, the season officially commences mid-February and ends around early August, however, the season will kicked off late on the back of delayed rains and late…
HARARE – The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has implored financial institutions to lower bank charges and peg new accounts opening at $5 as a way of promoting financial inclusion in the country. John Mangudya, the central bank chief said there was need for banks operating in the country to operationalise low costs accounts to…
HARARE – Daily News photojournalist Darius Mutamba was barred from taking pictures of First Lady Grace Mugabe’s welcome function when she arrived at Harare International Airport yesterday from the Far East where she was recuperating from a minor operation. This is yet another example of the dozens of times that the popular daily has been…
HARARE – There is no argument that Information, Media and Broadcasting Services minister Jonathan Moyo started well when he was appointed to this important, but difficult portfolio soon after Zimbabwe’s disputed elections in 2013. But it appears as if the more Zanu PF’s ugly factional and succession wars escalate, the more many ruling party bigwigs…
HARARE – First Lady Grace Mugabe yesterday demonstrated the immense power she now wields within Zimbabwe’s body politic when Cabinet ministers and Zanu PF bigwigs scrambled to Harare International Airport to welcome her back to the country after she had been away in the Far East for more than two months. Grace was accompanied by…
HARARE – Zimbabweans have savaged Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko for his latest controversial comments regarding the Gukurahundi massacres of innocent civilians, mostly in Matabeleland and the Midlands in the early 1980s. In an interview published by lickspittle State media yesterday, Mphoko appeared to exonerate both President Robert Mugabe and his government from the massacres in…
HARARE – The opposition MDC has invited officials from the camp led by ex-vice president Joice Mujuru to cross the floor and join hands with Morgan Tsvangirai in a grand coalition to defeat President Robert Mugabe in 2018. Addressing thousands of party supporters in Kuwadzana yesterday, MDC national executive member Nelson Chamisa said it was…
