HARARE – Zimbabwe’s women football team have progressed to the final qualifying round of the 2016 Rio Olympic Games after Ivory Coast’s withdrawal. The Mighty Warriors were supposed to take on Ivory Coast this weekend at Rufaro Stadium in a re-arranged qualifier but the West Africans have pulled out of the competition. Fifa Head of…
JOHANNESBURG – The social media went abuzz last Sunday after Chelsea had crashed to a resounding 3-0 away defeat to Manchester City. What made the defeat more hilarious to social media fanatics was the fact that the defending Premiership champions had just come off another rough week in which they were held to a 2-2…
LONDON – “African Attire” or African fashion are the two terms often used to describe the clothes of Africa. As an African British now living in the UK, I have been trying to understand what that means to Africans. In the African Diaspora communities “African Attire” is the buzz word, the very answer to trendy…
HARARE – Ghanaian-British documentary filmmaker Yaba Badoe, who is currently running a documentary workshop at the International Images Film Festival for Women (IIFF), has come to Zimbabwe through the support of the British Council. The 14th edition of IIFF, which began in Harare on the 14th of this month and will end tomorrow, and is…
HARARE – Zimbabwe is targeting $2 billion in Diaspora remittances into the national payment system by year end according to the central bank Diaspora remittances subsidiary, Homelink (Pvt) Ltd (Homelink) board chairman, Morris Mpofu. Speaking at a Homelink strategic business unit (SBU) housing project launch in the capital yesterday, Mpofu said of this amount only…
HARARE – Listed short-term insurer Nicoz Diamond (Nicoz) operating profit for the half-year to June 30, slumped 35 percent to $1,2 million compared to prior period on the back of higher growth claims and operating expenses of 45 percent. In a statement accompanying the group’s financials for the period under review, Nicoz chairman Albert Nduna…
HARARE – An audit or full investigation into the on-going land barons’ saga which has seen several arrests of those implicated is the only way city fathers can establish the veracity or extent of the involvement of City of Harare Council (HCC) officials, an official has said. HCC spokesperson Michael Kudakwashe Chideme told the Daily…
HARARE – There were times, in the midst of Zimbabwe’s seemingly never-ending crisis, when colleagues of ours swore that, in a few hours, some very higher-ups in Zanu PF would blame The Almighty for all the party’s troubles. With a Catholic at the head of the party? Some of us asked incredulously. One cynical friend,…
HARARE – With most Zimbabweans stressing about the country’s dying economy and rising poverty levels, as well as the heightened company closures and job redundancies, more and more observers are predicting the imminent explosion of social unrest and debilitating mass actions. The latest to envisage more doom and gloom for the country is United Kingdom…
HARARE – Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals has in the last three months hiked chemotherapy drugs prices by up to seven times, a top official has confirmed. Director of the Kaposi Sarcoma (KS) Clinic at Parirenyatwa Hospital, Margaret Borok said the drugs, priced between $10 and $70, had escalated steeply because of the rise in price…
