HARARE – Mwana Africa Plc (Mwana) continues to record impressive results and is set for greater heights despite the recent departure of its founder and former chief executive, Kalaa Mpinga. The London-listed firm’s results for the quarter ended June 30, 2015 released yesterday revealed that despite operating in Zimbabwe’s challenging environment, the company registered significant…
HARARE – African Development Bank (AfBD) Zimbabwe representative, Mateus Magala, is leaving the country for his native Mozambique where he is scheduled to head the coastal nation’s energy development utility, it has emerged. Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa made the announcement on Monday at a signing ceremony of a $2,8 million grant from the AfDB to…
HARARE – Zimbabwe Model Awards organiser Mercy Mushaninga says the inaugural edition, which was scheduled for last weekend, will now take place on Saturday at the Harare International Conference Centre. Mushaninga claimed that the first edition of the Zimbabwe Model Awards was postponed because it clashed with another event. “The date has been moved to…
HARARE – Associated Newspapers of Zimbabwe (ANZ), the publishers of the Daily News, has described as ridiculous Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko’s demand for a staggering $50 million in compensation for alleged defamation regarding a story that the country’s leading daily newspaper carried two months ago. In his High Court lawsuit in which he cites the…
BULAWAYO – Rising Bulawayo-born writer-cum-playwright Christopher Mlalazi (CM), who is currently a writer in residence in Germany, has gained respect in Zimbabwe’s competitive writing community largely because of his versatility. The Daily News on Sunday’s Bulawayo reporter Jeffrey Muvundusi (JM) recently spoke to Mlalazi on his experiences in the arts industry. Can you describe Christopher…
HARARE – Barely a year after securing partners from South Africa, who availed desperately needed funding and sponsorship, Miss Heritage, founded by Tare Munzara three year ago, is on the brink of implosion. After struggling to host the Miss Heritage World Pageant in Harare in 2013, Munzara and his partner Ronald Tisauke ceded 49 percent…
HARARE – There is much more to Tatenda Mavetera than her fabled role as Tendai Jari in Zimbabwe’s first soapie, Studio 263. The veteran actress, who broke into stardom nearly a decade ago on the small screen, is now into farming and logistics in in keeping with her status as a jack of all trades….
HARARE – Bernie Bismarck, the local promoter of the Toni Braxton – Babyface concert set for the Borrowdale Race Course on Friday night, has no say in the artiste’s itinerary in Zimbabwe, according to sources. Bismark’s BD Promotions is co-organising the multiple Grammy award-winning duo’s concert with Canoc Live from South Africa. The sources told…
VIRGINIA – Two US journalists have been shot dead during a live TV report in the state of Virginia, their employer has confirmed. WDBJ7 TV reporter Alison Parker, 24, and cameraman Adam Ward, 27, were killed during an interview in Moneta, Bedford County, the TV station said. During the live broadcast, shots and the reporter’s…
LONDON – In the past few months, the US re-established relations with erstwhile archenemy states, Cuba and Iran. This was crowned with the reciprocal re-opening of embassies that had been shut down at the height of tensions. Like Zimbabwe, the two were among states labelled as “outposts of tyranny” by former US secretary of State…
