HARARE – Grammy Award winners Toni Braxton and Kenny “Babyface” Edmonds will hold a potentially explosive maiden concert in Zimbabwe at the Borrowdale Race Course tonight. Davido to jet in this morning Nigerian international artiste Davido is expected in Harare early this morning in time for his maiden gig set for Belgravia Sports Club tomorrow….
HARARE – London-listed financial services group, Atlas Mara, says Zimbabwe’s economic challenges continue to put negative pressure on business performance. The group’s chief executive, John Vitalo, said in the absence of strong economic policies, the slowdown in economic activity in the southern African country is expected to continue throughout 2015. “BancABC Zimbabwe’s results were negatively…
HARARE – Every time the Zimbabwe Agricultural show is held at the showgrounds in Harare, I am explosively reminded of Louis Satchmo Armstrong, who thrilled us with his All-Stars band in 1961 in Salisbury. If this is too far away for you to remember in detail, I forgive you entirely. There was a moment during…
HARARE – With Zimbabwe’s economic ship facing certain Armageddon, amid signs of cluelessness on the part of the captain President Robert Mugabe, it’s high time the 91-year-old leader and his increasingly powerful but controversial wife, Grace faced up to the reality that they have failed. It is of paramount importance to mention Grace together with…
HARARE – Parishioners will unite to celebrate the Apostolic Faith Mission in Zimbabwe’s centenary at Rufaro High School in Masvingo tomorrow. Apostolic Faith Mission traces its origin to the Pentecostal Revival which was started in 1901 at Bethel Bible School in Arkansas, Texas by Charles Parham. In Zimbabwe it is called Apostolic Faith Mission of…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s increasingly influential, but gaffe-prone wife, Grace, is flaunting her ambitions and political power more and more, boasting yet again yesterday that no one could stop her from aiming for the leadership of Zanu PF, and that even her husband had failed to silence her from publicly shellacking former Vice President…
HARARE – An airline has appealed to the country’s highest court after failing in its latest attempt to block a $24 500 payout to former Big Brother Africa reality TV star Wendall Parson. The High Court sided with the Zimbabwean Big Brother Africa winner in his long-running legal battle with Nu-Aero (Private) Limited, trading as…
HARARE – The alleged sex scandal in which Renewal Democrats of Zimbabwe leader (RDZ) Elton Mangoma was accused of having a sexual affair with a married woman took a new twist yesterday after three of Mangoma’s bodyguards were hauled before the courts yesterday charged with assaulting the cuckolded husband. Mangoma’s bodyguards Nelson Mukwenha, 34, Rekai…
PRETORIA – The review board which will decide whether South African athlete Oscar Pistorius should be released from jail will meet on 18 September, reports say. The justice minister blocked his early release, which was due last Friday. He said the decision by the parole board to free the athlete after serving 10 months of…
BEIJING – Usain Bolt won the rematch and 200m gold as he ran a wonderful bend to once again leave rival Justin Gatlin chasing silver and fresh air. On a sweaty, sticky night in the Bird’s Nest, Bolt was out quicker and opened an unassailable lead over the first 100m before coming away down the…
