HARARE – The last time Highlanders beat Dynamos in a league match they also went on to win the Zimbabwe league championship and that was way back in 2006. It has been a long eight years since the Bulawayo giants have celebrated a win over their fierce rivals from the capital. In those eight years,…
HARARE – What started off as a social media war between two rappers, Stunner and Mudiwa, has degenerated into “diss” music. Gospel rapper Mudiwa was the first to fire a salvo at Stunner who responded by composing a song that denigrated the former. Interestingly, the two rappers were given the same beat to record on….
HARARE – The cash-strapped Cold Storage Company Limited (CSC) has registered a loss of $1,4 million during the quarter to March 2015 against a budgeted loss of $1,7 million. Ngoni Chinogaramombe, CSC’s chief executive in a trading update presented to the Lands and Agriculture parliamentary portfolio committee on Tuesday said the company currently with a…
HARARE – Government has approved plans for national carrier Air Zimbabwe (AirZim) to engage a strategic partner as part of its turnaround strategy. Shingai Dhliwayo, AirZim’s public relations manager yesterday confirmed the development but referred all questions to the Transport ministry. “Government as our sole shareholder is dealing with that matter,” she said. Efforts to…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s raw milk production for the five months to May 2015 marginally rose 2,2 percent from 22,2 million litres to 22,7 million litres despite operating environment constrains, according to latest statistics from the Agriculture ministry. Figures released by the ministry’s dairy services department indicate that the country is beginning to realise benefits from…
EDITOR — I write once again to remind the media fraternity, civil society and other concerned groups to continue to make noise about one of their own who has been missing for several months now; Itai Dzamara. So far, calls for his search or investigations about his abduction have died down to mere shrills here…
HARARE – Bungling by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) in the conduct of the recent Hurungwe West parliamentary by-election could be a harbinger of worse things, come 2018 general elections, unless urgent electoral reforms are implemented in earnest. Rita Makarau, Zec’s chairperson surprised all and sundry after issuing out a controversial statement — which also…
KIGALI – Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame has launched a scathing verbal attack on the UK government after the arrest of his intelligence chief. In his first comments since the arrest, Mr Kagame said it was a continuation of “colonialism” and accused the British of “arrogance and contempt”. Karenzi Karake was detained at London’s Heathrow Airport…
HARARE – Former Presidential Affairs minister Didymus Mutasa yesterday revealed how a defeated and despondent President Robert Mugabe had been ready to step down from office in 2008 after the main opposition MDC and its leader Morgan Tsvangirai had won that year’s keenly-contested elections. Speaking in an interview with the Daily News yesterday, Mutasa, however,…
HARARE – Riot police flooded Harare’s Central Business District yesterday in a futile bid by authorities to thwart thousands of vendors who were demonstrating against a Friday deadline for them to move off the streets. The baton-wielding police barricaded some streets as the placard-waving vendors demonstrated peacefully against their planned eviction. The street traders’ representative…
