HARARE – United Kingdom-based Zimbabwean Afro-pop artiste Chashe Musarurwa-McTaggart has emerged as one of the hottest female musicians on the local scene largely due to her hit titled Zvokupenga. The music of Chashe, who collaborated with Tinashe Makura on the hit that has captured the imagination of young Zimbabweans, revolves around love. Chashe and Tinashe…
HARARE – Zimbabwe International Book Fair (ZIBF) chairperson Musaemura Zimunya says the country’s reading culture is deteriorating mainly due to technology which generates immediate gratification at the expense of long-term intellectual benefit. Zimunya, who is also chairperson of the Zimbabwe Writers Association (Zwa), said the recent Culture Week that ran from May 16 to 23,…
HARARE – Afro-fusion star Victor Kunonga’s maiden performance at Club Paramount in Chitungwiza last weekend has won the Kwedu singer new fans in a city regarded as a sungura fortress. Chitungwiza, home to some of Zimbabwe’s finest musicians, including Nicholas Zakaria, Alick Macheso, Jah Prayzah among others, has historically been dominated by sungura artistes. When…
HARARE – In recent years, Zimbabwe has witnessed the emergence of young brilliant political commentators who have tried their hand at politics, but have not fared well. The more active political commentators include Ibo Mandaza and Simba Makoni who both lost when they contested as independent candidates in parliamentary elections; journalist Geoff Nyarota who lost…
BEIJING – Public smoking in China’s capital, Beijing, is now banned after the introduction of a new law. China has over 300 million smokers and more than a million Chinese die from smoking-related illnesses every year. Smoking bans already existed in China, but have largely failed to crack down on the habit. These tougher regulations,…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe and Zanu PF hardliners are scared stiff of ousted former Vice President Joice Mujuru and this apparently started to manifest itself as way back as 2004, former Presidential Affairs minister Didymus Mutasa has said. Speaking in an interview with the Daily News on Sunday yesterday, Mutasa — a former close…
HARARE – Zanu PF political commissar Saviour Kasukuwere on Friday dismissed opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai’s call for electoral reforms, saying the MDC leader can go and hang. Addressing Zanu PF supporters at a rally in Harare’s Msasa suburb to drum up support for the party’s candidate, Terence Mukupe for the June 10 by-elections in Harare…
HARARE – Dilapidation, incessant strikes and failure all aptly describe the rot and demise of Zimbabwe’s sole rail transport services provider — the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ). The struggling parastatal, which used to employ over 18 000 workers in 1980 and currently has less than 6 500 employees on its contract, requires at least…
HARARE – Firebrand former war veterans’ leader Jabulani Sibanda says his erstwhile comrades in Zanu PF are crassly clinging to the coat-tails of an “old, tired and misled” President Robert Mugabe, describing many of them as “senseless cowards”. Speaking in an interview with the Daily News yesterday, and firing from the hip as usual, the…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe has been pressured to settle his $345 000 power debt to State-owned power firm Zesa Holdings three years after the Daily News’ Zesagate exposé, an official at the power utility confirmed. Zesagate, one of the biggest scandal to rock the country in more than a decade, was unearthed by the…
