HARARE – An eleventh hour promotion by Harare International Festival of the Arts (Hifa) officials saved the arts showcase’s most expensive gig — the Sonic Wonderland — from being hit by apathy. With tickets hardly moving three hours before the $30 gig, organisers introduced a promotion in which whoever bought a ticket would get another…
HARARE – It is my pleasure to stand before you again at the 2nd Dubai Diamond Conference hosted and presented by the Dubai Diamond Exchange (DDE). The DDE has undoubtedly continued to remain a strategic and influential institution within the global diamond industry. Our inaugural meeting was held at this same venue back in 2013…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s broad money supply increased by 11,6 percent between January 2014 and January 2015, from $3,88 billion last year to $4,34 billion, on the back of growth in banking sector deposits, statistics from the central bank show. The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) figures show the surge in deposits was mainly used to…
HARARE – Zimbabwe joined the rest of the world in celebrating the international Press Freedom Day yesterday at a time there are growing concerns over rising violations against the local media. While the country has marginally improved for the second year running on the international press freedom index, where it moved from 135 to 131…
HARARE – Walter Magaya, leader of Prophetic Healing and Deliverance (PHD) Ministries used popular sungura musician Alick Macheso as a fishing worm to “catch men” at an all-men night prayer held on Friday in Harare. Themed Creating a Man with Power, the event saw Macheso, a secular artiste performing in a church, sharing the stage…
HARARE – Magaya says he was forced to cancel his maiden regional church crusade due to xenophobic attacks in neighbouring South Africa. The plans for PHD Ministries’ crusade pencilled for South Africa were at an advanced stage but they have been thwarted by the unjustifiable killings of foreign nationals across Limpopo River. Magaya told journalists…
MUTARE – Opposistion leader Morgan Tsvangirai is ratcheting up the pressure against President Robert Mugabe and Zanu PF, declaring at the weekend that the MDC would soon unroll its long-mooted mass protests to force the government to implement much-needed reforms. Speaking at a rally in Mutare on Saturday, Tsvangirai urged his supporters to ready themselves…
HARARE – As the nation is still trying to come to terms with the brutal xenophobic attacks in neighbouring South Africa that left at least seven people dead, back home Zanu PF yobs are allegedly attacking indiscriminately any person remotely linked to independent candidate Temba Mliswa — including his workers. According to Mliswa — who…
HARARE – The Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) and Combined Harare Residents Association (Chra) have clashed over the local authorities’ plan to introduce prepaid water meters. An MDC official, Eddie Cross, has ordered residents to abort their countrywide anti-prepaid water meters campaigns being spearheaded by Zimbabwe United Residents Associations to which Chra is a member….
HARARE – Despite threats by urban local authorities to remove vendors from central business districts as a way of decongesting and cleaning up the country’s increasingly dingy towns — especially the capital city Harare — street traders say they will stay put in the areas where they are currently operating from. National Vendors Union of…
