HARARE – Telecommunications companies should find common ground before implementing an infrastructure sharing framework to ensure fair treatment of other players that have already heavily invested in their businesses, a renowned lawyer has said. Tawanda Nyambirai of Mtetwa and Nyambirai Legal Practitioners last week said that government’s position was that it would not expropriate any…
HARARE – The People’s Own Savings Bank (POSB) is one of the few State-owned institutions that are performing exceptionally well — above market expectations. The POSB recently posted a $1,2 million profit and last month gave over $313 000 in dividend to government, for the second time in five years. Our Business Editor John Kachembere…
HARARE – Award-winning Zimdancehall star Tocky Vibes delivered a stunning performance at the “Econet Million Dollar Storm” event held in the Harare Gardens on Saturday afternoon that must have put his critics to shame. Despite repeatedly thrilling Zimbabwean music fans in Australia, the United Kingdom and South Africa where he has regularly toured, Tocky Vibes,…
HARARE – Controversial sungura musician First Farai has joined the bandwagon of musicians flocking to chaar churches hoping to revive their flagging careers. Farai, who strangely named his latest album Fantastic Farai Ubwada Delicious, told the Daily News that he is now a member of Walter Magaya’s Prophetic Healing and Deliverance (PHD) Ministries. “I need…
EDITOR — I take my hat off to the Auditor General Mildred Chiri for her commendable work that truly defines her as a genuine patriotic Zimbabwean. She has been at the forefront of exposing huge cases of corruption, financial mismanagement and other underhand dealings involving top government officials at a time when even men themselves…
HARARE – Expelled Zanu PF senior member and former Masvingo resident minister, Kudakwashe Bhasikiti, as reported yesterday in our sister publication — the Daily News On Sunday — foiled an abduction attempt on him after he dramatically turned the tables on alleged intelligence details who had been trailing him for more than a week. Bhasikiti,…
HARARE – It’s been more than four months since journalist-cum-activist — Itai Dzamara — was abducted whilst having a hair cut in the suburb of Glen View, 24 hours after he had rallied pro-democracy group to ratchet up pressure on President Robert Mugabe to go. The police and State who are accused of not doing…
BEIJING – Chinese authorities have arrested a former presidential aide in a corruption investigation after expelling him from the ruling Communist Party, the government announced Monday. Ling Jihua, 58, who worked for former President Hu Jintao, stands accused of accepting huge bribes, stealing party and state secrets, as well as keeping mistresses and trading power…
HARARE – South Africa’s Under-23 assistant coach Shaun Bartlett is certain his side will finish off Zimbabwe in the second leg of the African Under-23 Championships qualifier at home in two weeks’ time. The South Africans outplayed the Young Warriors in the first leg at Rufaro Stadium on Sunday but failed to convert their dominance…
HARARE – Mighty Warriors captain Felistas “Figo” Muzongondi says the team is disappointed after they failed to travel to Ivory Coast for Sunday’s 2016 Rio Olympic Games qualifier. Rosemary Mugadza’s team was supposed to leave for the West African country on Saturday but the trip was aborted after the Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) failed to…
