NYANGA – An exhausted female Zanu PF supporter collapsed and died while dancing to a Tocky Vibes song ahead of Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko’s rally at Nyakomba Irrigation Scheme in Nyanga on Wednesday. Venenzia Chitanda died at about 1300 hours, two hours before Mphoko’s arrival for his familiarisation tour of the irrigation scheme. She had…
HARARE – Brian Tarisai Kambasha, who was jailed for three years for duping Airforce of Zimbabwe commander Air Marshal Perrance Shiri of more than $50 000 in a botched solar deal has been freed on $1 000 bail. The 32-year-old businessman, who runs Hemmingworth Cartwright (Private) Limited, was convicted of theft of trust property. High…
LAGOS – Nigeria’s new President will be sworn in Friday, marking the first peaceful transfer of power between rival parties in the nation. Retired Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, who won the election in March, will be inaugurated in the capital of Abuja. When he takes over from Goodluck Jonathan, he’ll have to tackle a stubborn militant…
PEREPALLY – Mallayia Baddula sits barefoot beneath the shelter of his hut in Perepally, a small village outside Hyderabad. He’s 76-years old and mourning the death of his son Venkatesham, who at half his age succumbed to the heat during the recent hot, dry spell. “He had gone to get some medicine for me,” Baddula…
HARARE – Shingirayi “Mau Mau” Sabeta, one of the pioneers of Zimbabwean hip-hop, says the genre will move a notch higher if its artistes sing in their mother tongues. “Artists need to master their mother tongues and rap in those mother tongues so that we develop our own voice. Few artists are currently doing that….
HARARE – Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE)-listed retailer, OK Zimbabwe Limited (OK), says it is engaging foreign retailers for the manufacturing of in-shop brands to boost the group’s revenues. Its chief operations officer, Albert Katsande, told analysts last week that the group was failing to realise profit from in-house brands due to the state of local…
HARARE – Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa says Zimbabwe’s presumptive tax was in line with international trends and blamed small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs) for evading taxes. “The issue of presumptive tax has been operative for quite a while now. The issue which may arise is whether the level is too high or too low,” Chinamasa told Parliament…
HARARE – Zimbabwe finds itself in the current economic stagnation largely due to leadership failure and misplaced priorities. Instead of channelling their energies towards economic revival, President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF administration is constantly chasing shadows and off late is busy concentrating on ejecting “Gamatox” members from the liberation war movement. On his part, Mugabe…
HARARE – Elton Mangoma, MDC renewal team treasurer-general, has lambasted allegations he had a sexual affair with a married woman, describing the accusations as a grotesque attempt by secretary-general Tendai Biti to destroy him politically. The embattled Mangoma promised Biti’s alleged campaign would fail. The scandal has erupted at a sensitive time for Mangoma, who…
HARARE – The Constitutional Court has outlawed the police’s dragnet operations targeting women soliciting for sex. This followed an application filed by nine suspected prostitutes who challenged their arrest and prosecution, claiming their right to liberty had been infringed. Following their arrest, the women had excepted to the charges, an application which was dismissed by…
