ACCRA – Some 175 people have died in a fire at a petrol station in Ghana’s capital, Accra, officials say. The fire on Wednesday night started as people in the city were trying to cope with two days of heavy rain, which has left many homeless and without power. The flooding hampered rescue efforts and…
HARARE – Various members of the local arts community have lamented the sudden closure of the Book Café on Tuesday. The iconic and award-winning live arts venue finally shut its doors after succumbing to a three-year debt crisis that saw the Book Café routinely failing to pay its workers. Tuesday’s closure is the second time…
HARARE – After her highly-rated performance alongside Malian singer Salif Keita during the Harare International Festival of the Arts, (Hifa), mbira player and vocalist Hope Masike will herald the Divas Night set for Private Lounge in Harare today. Masike will share the stage with equally-talented guitarists Edith WeUtonga and Tariro Negitare. A spokesperson for Private…
HARARE – Zimbabwe must stop mortgaging minerals to secure loans but must negotiate deals more shrewdly to preserve future generations from bad decisions, a renowned Ghanaian economist said. Douglas Boateng, Africa’s first ever extraordinary professor in supply and value chain management, told an Institute of Directors Zimbabwe (IoDZ) awards ceremony recently that government was compromising…
HARARE – Listed financial services group First Mutual Holdings Limited (FMHL)’s operating profit surged by 1 090 percent to over $1 million in the first four months to April 2015 due to cost cutting measures and rationalisation of branches. Douglas Hoto, FMHL’s chief executive said the positive growth trajectory came on the backdrop of declining…
HARARE – Journalists and media practitioners have said it is unfortunate that Information minister Jonathan Moyo likened Nigerian journalists who ambushed President Robert Mugabe during the recent inauguration of Muhammadu Buhari, the newly-installed leader of the West African country to “brothers and sisters of Boko Haram.” They said Moyo’s outburst intimates that it borders on…
HARARE – The latest move by the Zanu PF-led government to use the military to forcibly remove street vendors from cities and towns is ill-conceived and must be condemned in the strictest of terms. While we do not condone illegal vending on street pavements, as it does not only pose a health and moral hazard…
HARARE – Former Presidential Affairs minister, Didymus Mutasa, has warned Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa to zip up “in his own interest” or risk being exposed as a charlatan who played an insignificant role during the liberation struggle. Responding to Mnangagwa’s frontal attack on him and other liberation struggle stalwarts at a rally in Headlands on…
HARARE – Elton Mangoma has walked away from the MDC renewal Team to form his own party — Renewal Democrats of Zimbabwe. Mangoma’s announcement comes after an ad hoc committee suspended him from the renewal team on Wednesday on allegations he hired thugs to beat up a party member, Believe Tevera, who had alleged that…
HARARE – Godwin Gomwe, Zanu PF’s Harare youth league chairperson, will further languish in remand prison after a magistrate denied him bail yesterday on charges of abusing First Lady Grace Mugabe’s name in an alleged extortion racket. Gomwe is jointly charged with Muchineripi Mupindu, Hamphrey Madenyika, Norah Toronga, Fidelis Ndaradza, Haruwandi Munyawiri and Josephine Hadziyendi….
