HARARE – Rising mbira star Hope Masike had a mere 20-minute cameo on stage with Malian music superstar Salif Keita during Sunday’s Harare International Festival of Arts (Hifa) closing concert but there is no doubt that it was the highlight of her career. It is not every day that a fledgling artiste gets to collaborate…
HARARE – Zimbabwe is willing to compromise on indigenisation stipulations to help the national airline to secure a new investor. Transport minister Obert Mpofu said government was pursuing various efforts to ensure that Air Zimbabwe (Airzim) starts operating on a sustainable basis. “We would be looking at several possibilities out of which a compromise where,…
HARARE – Recent revelations that nude pictures of recently-crowned Miss Zimbabwe Emily Kachote have been leaked via social media make disturbing reading. What has made the alleged leak of the pornographic images more disturbing for most people is the fact that it has become a recurrent problem at the national pageant. Last year, Thabiso Phiri…
HARARE – Highly-regarded war veteran Rugare Gumbo has for the first time narrated in spine-chilling detail how President Robert Mugabe and Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa allegedly caused his arrest and inhuman detention in dirty dungeons in Mozambique during the liberation struggle. Speaking in an interview with the Daily News yesterday, an emotional Gumbo said so…
HARARE – High Court judge Nicholas Mathonsi has accused the Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) of being overzealous in the manner in which it dealt with the cancellation of Telecel operating licence. Potraz last week gave Telecel, the country’s third largest mobile network provider, 30 days to round up its operations after…
JOHANESSBURG – President Robert Mugabe is set to join his counterpart, Russian President Vladmir Putin, in celebrating Russia’s annual victory celebrations day. Russia commemorates the end of World War II in Europe tomorrow. Mugabe’s spokesperson George Charamba said the veteran leader had been invited to attend the celebrations in his capacity as the African Union…
HARARE – Phillipe Van Damme, the European Union ambassador to Zimbabwe, has said Zimbabwe should fix its economic framework, political field, as well as the rule of law for the re-engagement process to proceed smoothly. Relations between Zimbabwe and the European Union have been frosty going back a decade ago after the bloc imposed sanctions…
HARARE – Tourism minister Walter Mzembi has unveiled a board of directors for Mosi-oa-Tunya Development Company (MTDC) to spearhead the development of an eco-Disneyland theme park on 274 hectares in the country’s prime tourist destination Victoria Falls. Announcing the new board, chaired by First Mutual Life Assurance managing director Ruth Ncube, Mzembi said the board’s…
HARARE – The banking sector recorded a low loans uptake as a result of high lending rates as corporate clients in the sector slumped, figures from the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe show. In its weekly economic report, the central bank said loans have declined to $3,4 million from $3,6 million in January this year. Lending…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s maize production for the 2014/15 agricultural season is forecast to decline by over 500 000 tonnes to 950 000 tonnes due to a prolonged dry spell, a latest Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) report has shown. “The 2015 harvest is preliminarily forecast at under 1 million tonnes, about one-third down on 2014,”…
