HARARE – Colourful Sunshine City Choir will mark its second anniversary at Kingstone’s House tomorrow with a live audio and video recording of their second album titled The Live Experience. The bumper 15-track album to be recorded tomorrow is a follow-up to their debut three-track offering that the 33-member choir released two years ago. To…
LOCAL auctioneer Hammer and Tongues (H&T) has launched an online shopping mall in the capital, with the group hoping to boost revenues three-fold within a year. Its chief executive, Brian Makwabarara, told journalists in the capital that the online mall had initially been an online auction platform, but then evolved into a mall after the…
HARARE – Innscor Africa Limited (Innscor)’s bakery division Baker’s Inn will by year end have spent up to $50 million in capital expenditure as part of efforts to boost operational efficiencies. Baker’s Inn chief operating officer Ngoni Mazango yesterday said that apart from adding new production lines since last year, they have embarked on replacing…
BERLIN – The German parliament has voted in favour of starting negotiations on Greece’s €86bn (£60bn) bailout deal. The motion passed with a clear majority, with 439 MPs in favour, 119 votes against and 40 abstentions. Prior to the vote, Chancellor Angela Merkel warned of “predictable chaos” if the Bundestag did not back the plan….
HARARE – Cement manufacturer Lafarge and Holcim Limited on Wednesday officially launched their new combined building materials company, LafargeHolcim, after overcoming a series of regulatory hurdles and challenges over the terms of the merger, which was first announced a year ago. LafargeHolcim chief executive, Eric Olsen (pictured) said the company remained committed to delivering annual…
EDITOR — The MDC has learnt with sadness the passing on of renowned author Chenjerai Hove who is reported to have succumbed to liver failure while in exile in Norway. The country and literary community has lost a talented, fearless and principled writer who contributed immensely towards the education sector and the struggle for a…
HARARE – The exclusion of pertinent issues involving Ziyambi Ziyambi and Energy Mutodi from the politburo agenda on Wednesday reveals that Zanu PF could be headed for a turnaround. Early this week, the Mashonaland West provincial executive passed a vote of no confidence in Ziyambi who was interim chairperson over accusations of leaking party information…
HARARE – While the words economic empowerment and development have been thrown around over the past decade-plus, it seems the focus has been on somewhat exciting and novel initiatives as opposed to reviewing the inefficiencies and bottlenecks in the current system. Most of these models are incompatible with the 21st Century and thus continue to…
YAOUNDE – Cameroon has banned the wearing of full-face Islamic veil, including the burka, in the Far North region, following two suicide bomb attacks. Two women dressed in the religious garments blew themselves up on Sunday in Fotokol, killing 13 people. The governor of the mainly Muslim region said the measure was to prevent further…
BERLIN – The German parliament is voting on whether to allow negotiations on Greece’s €86bn (£60bn) bailout deal. Before the vote, Chancellor Angela Merkel warned of “predictable chaos” if deputies did not back the plan. The deal is expected to be passed despite opposition from the left and some members of Mrs Merkel’s conservative Christian…
