HARARE – Zimbabwe has engaged four international diamond cutting and polishing firms as part of the country’s strategies to add value to its natural resources. President Robert Mugabe told thousands of party supporters on Saturday that the move will help boost revenue earnings and employment creation in the country. “To encourage value addition and beneficiation…
HARARE – The opposition and civil service unions yesterday rounded on President Robert Mugabe and his misfiring Zanu PF government, saying farcical developments around bonuses for State employees underlined the fact that the centre could no longer hold within the ruling party. The criticism included claims that the bonus disaster showed that Mugabe was no…
HARARE – To be or not to be is the opening phrase of a dialogue in the “Nunnery Scene” of William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet. In the speech, a despondent Prince Hamlet contemplates death and suicide. He bemoans the pains and unfairness of life but acknowledges the alternative might be still worse. This is the predicament…
HARARE – When the “Mbira in Schools” Project was launched in August last year, its founder Albert Chimedza hardly imagined that his ambitious initiative would quickly spread its influence to as far as Canada. Montreal-based Ginette Hétu-Bertrand, who briefly lived in Harare soon after independence, has set up an organisation that seeks to promote the…
HARARE – Over the past two weeks, Zambezi News — a three-year-old local comedy series featuring Comrade Fatso, Michael Kudakwashe, Tongai Leslie Makawa and Stacey Danana — has made the news on global television stations like BBC and CNN. The Daily News on Sunday’s Sharon Muguwu caught up with Comrade Fatso to get more insight…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) has dithered in coming up with a solution to the abandoned Uhuru Cup final between Dynamos and FC Platinum. Saturday’s final was stopped after 65 minutes with DeMbare leading 1-0 courtesy of Ronald Chitiyo’s 15th minute strike at the National Sports Stadium. There was an electricity blackout at…
HARARE – Zimbabwe tennis player Benjamin Lock starred in a 6-1 loss to University of Virginia while playing for his school Florida State University at Scott Speicher Tennis Centre in Tallahassee last Friday. Lock, who is ranked number 98 in the United States, beat 20th ranked Mitchell Frank, 6-3, 6-4 to register the only win…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s leading amateur golfers failed to rise to the occasion at the Africa Zone VI Golf Championships at the Uganda Golf Club, finishing a distant third. However, it was a different story for the hosts who ran out winners, breaking South Africa’s dominance in the tournament that has stood for 16 years. Uganda…
HARARE – Bulawayo Golf Club’s Jack Allard will lead a four-man team set to represent Zimbabwe at the All Africa Junior Golf Challenge in Lusaka, Zambia from May 3 to 9. Also making up the team is 16-year-old David Amm, Bekithemba Ndlovu, and Falcon College’s Kieran Vincent. Tafadzwa Nyamukondiwa has been selected as a non-travelling…
HARARE – His father ignored all the signs of musical potential in Divine Chitubura and believed his son’s love for carpentry would one day at least lead him into a more acceptable career. As a teenager, the 22-year-old’s handiwork had seen him become an entrepreneur who specialises in making beds. But that all changed two…
