HARARE – Chimurenga music legend Thomas “Mukanya” Mapfumo’s tour of South Africa scheduled for next week has been postponed due to the failure by some members of the veteran musician’s backing group to secure travel documents. As part of the highly-anticipated tour dubbed “Danger Zone,” the United States of America-based artiste was billed to perform…
HARARE – Boomslang Production, a video production company owned by Seiraj Khan (Bkay) and Farhaan Khan (Kazz), better known as Bkay and Kaz, has merged with a similar entity called Drealisee Meg TV. Kazz believes the merger will make it possible to create quality Zimbabwean music videos of international standard. “We are happy to be…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) has challenged the $50 million lawsuit that was filed against the local bourse by diversified conglomerate Meikles Limited (Meikles), businessdaily has learnt. Alban Chirume, the ZSE chief executive, said his organisation lodged an appearance to defend with the High Court on Monday to give the bourse adequate time…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Stock Exchange this week plunged to one if its lowest trades in six years with a paltry $53 576 worth of shares changing hands on Monday, as investors continue to shun the country’s “dying economy”. This comes as in early January, daily turnover on the local bourse — with a market…
EDITOR — The deadly mutiny which rocked Harare’s maximum security prison is a reflection of the cry of prisoners to have their living conditions improved. Various stakeholders including the Church, human rights organisations and civil society have expressed their concerns on the huge influx of inmates as well as the poor diet which allegedly was…
HARARE – Govevrnment’s threats this week to cancel Essar Africa’s licence to establish a 600 megawatt (MW) thermal power plant after the company failed to commence the project shows government’s ineptitude. Essar, the African unit of India’s Essar Group in November 2010 agreed to buy 54 percent in the country’s collapsed steel giant, Ziscosteel (now…
HARARE – Zimbabwe is teetering on the brink of total chaos as the country’s increasingly clueless government, led by an often-absent President Robert Mugabe, fails to respond to the many challenges facing hard-pressed citizens, analysts and opposition parties said yesterday. They also told the Daily News that the rising incidence of protests against oppression and…
HARARE – In a stunning pronouncement, Acting President Emmerson Mnangagwa has claimed that convicted rapist — Martin Gumbura — led the deadly riots that rocked Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison last week which left at least five people dead. Mnangagwa told Parliament yesterday that the clergyman was allegedly the ringleader of the group that caused the…
HARARE – The Herald’s senior assistant editor, George Chisoko, has been suspended for publishing a business story in the State-controlled daily highlighting Zimbabwe’s dying economy. In the unusually candid story, the paper highlighted what economists and millions of ordinary Zimbabweans talk about every day, and which private newspapers such as the Daily News routinely publish…
HARARE – A total of 200 students at Peterhouse Boys School in Marondera have contracted collective diarrhoea, authorities confirmed on Tuesday. The transmission mode has remained largely unknown so far but an immediate epidemiological investigation is being conducted to identify it. Peterhouse is widely regarded as Zimbabwe’s top independent boarding school and one of the…
