HARARE – It appears as if it never rains but pours for President Robert Mugabe’s warring Zanu PF, after it emerged yesterday that the party’s winning candidate in the recent Hurungwe West by-election, Keith Guzah — who has already been sworn in as a Member of Parliament — may have dribbled his way to the…
HARARE – Zanu PF has distanced itself from a vendors’ representative group that goes by the bizarre name of Queen of Grace ZimAsset Trust (QGZT) which is allegedly coercing street traders to buy $5 membership cards from the organisation for protection. This comes as government has ordered vendors to vacate the streets and relocate to…
HARARE – The trial of five Harare men accused of duping Walter Magaya’s wife of $116 000 in a botched car deal failed to kick off yesterday after one of the accused applied to be exempted from the charges. Victor Ngonidzashe Matiyenga, a car dealer who runs a car sale at Greencroft Shopping Centre and…
HARARE – Brainworks Capital Management Limited (Brainworks), the company at the centre of Zimbabwe’s controversial indigenisation deals says government abandoned the implementation of the transactions almost two years ago. Zimbabwe’s indigenisation laws compels foreigners to cede 51 percent shareholding to locals. The deals were stopped after the Daily News exposed anomalies which would have seen…
MUTARE – The Morgan Tsvangirai-led MDC dismissed claims that 55 of their members defected to Zanu PF as a “work of fiction”. Trevor Saruwaka, MDC’s Manicaland provincial spokesperson said the youths who were paraded on national television recently were not in their registers. The Mutasa Central Member of Parliament invited “anyone who cared for the…
HARARE – Former Masvingo Provincial State minister Kudakwashe Bhasikiti Chuma has filed an urgent chamber Constitutional Court (Con-Court) application seeking to bar President Robert Mugabe from calling for a by-election in his constituency. Bhasikiti, who was Mwenezi East National Assembly member, was ejected from Parliament last week, following his expulsion from Zanu PF. The Con-Court…
HARARE – They say all that is blessed by your parents will reach greatness. So is the story of Myrah Dube, 24 an immensely talented afro-jazz diva whose father bought her first guitar while her mother bought her the first performance dress. Growing up in Masvingo, she relocated to Bulawayo at the age of 11….
HARARE – Fashion lovers it’s that time again! The Fashion Market is back on June 27 at Honeybear Guestlodge in Harare. This year’s edition, a collaboration with Model Management International, will bring to you a winter Wonderland-themed event as well as a Fashion show called ‘Diversity’ that brings together local designers. The Fashion Market is…
HARARE – The new Land Rover Discovery Sport, the world’s most versatile and capable premium compact sport utility vehicles (SUV), is now available in Zimbabwe following its launch in the country on Wednesday. Nigel Clarke, operations director of Jaguar Land Rover sub-Sahara, said the vehicle’ progressive new design approach defines the new Discovery family with…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) has launched a prepaid tolling card for the motoring public’s “convenience and especially those in the logistics sector to have total control, and oversight of their operations”. In launching the initiative Wednesday, Transport minister Obert Mpofu said the use of information communication technologies was critical in the…
