HARARE – What had been billed as a massive Easter-eve gig at New Life Night Club, featuring Peter Moyo, Leonard Zhakata and Beverly “Bev” Sibanda, was ruined by a poor public address system. To make matters worse, Bev, who was asked to hold her popular dance show at the Thursday gig as sound technicians were…
HARARE – Zimbabwean student Joseph Mahiya, the winner of Pan-African DStv Eutelsat Star Awards Essay Category says his victory is “the stuff that dreams are made of.” Winning the pan-African competition which seeks to spark interest in science and space technology in young African students, has earned Mahiya a trip to a rocket launch site…
HARARE – Collapsed Allied Financial Holdings (AFH) former chief executive Terence Mukupe has turned to politics and is eyeing the Harare East parliamentary seat under the Zanu PF ticket. Mukupe is expected to lock horns in the primaries with the party’s losing candidate in the 2013 general elections Noah Mangondo, Stalin Mau Mau and Mavis…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s manufacturing industry is bleeding to death after the sector contracted by a negative 4,9 percent in 2014, latest statistics from the central bank show. In its quarterly economic report released yesterday, the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) attributed the massive decline in manufacturing output to “persistent challenges affecting the sector, which include…
HARARE – Premier African Minerals (Premier) says it remains on course to start its first tungsten production in Zimbabwe by June this year. George Roach, Premier chief executive, said the mining firm has started to strip the waste at its RHA tungsten project, while plant fabrication is on schedule to start in two months. “Construction…
HARARE – “When seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.” The above statement was a Delphic message to the British media in April 2005 by former Manchester United iconic skipper — Eric Cantona — after he escaped a prison sentence following his kung-fu kick on an…
HARARE – The peaceful relinquishing of power by out-going Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan last week to election winner, Muhammadu Buhari, has many lessons for the ruling Zanu PF and President Robert Mugabe, analysts say. Jonathan had earlier cleared the air on alleged plans to prolong his tenure, saying if the result of the March 28…
HARARE – Zanu PF has now officially split into two distinct and bitterly-opposed formations, with disaffected party stalwarts — including liberation struggle pioneers, war veterans and security sector bigwigs — coalescing under the principles of the “original Zanu PF” and now operating as Zanu People First, the Daily News can exclusively reveal. Well-placed sources told…
HARARE – Firebrand war veteran Margaret Dongo has branded Zanu PF politburo members as cowards who were “only brave enough to hound” former Vice President Joice Mujuru after her powerful husband, General Solomon Mujuru, had died. Speaking in an interview with the Daily News yesterday, Dongo — who once famously described Zanu PF bigwigs as…
HARARE – Former Hurungwe West legislator Temba Mliswa has dared Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) commissioner general Gershem Pasi to collect taxes from elite politicians like Environment minister Savior Kasukuwere whom he alleges is building a monstrous house with many rooms. Mliswa said while the revenue authority is making strides at enforcing tax compliance, much revenue…
