HARARE – While Zimbabweans and others the world over have known and called her Dorothy Masuka, the legendary musician said people were getting her surname wrong. On Thursday, the jazz singer who was celebrating her 80th birthday told guests attending a dinner hosted on her behalf by the Harare Jazz Festival and Dr Solomon Guramatunhu…
HARARE – Acting Arts and Culture minister Walter Mzembi on Friday called for the arrest of local promoters for the recent joint Babyface and Toni Braxton concert at the Borrowdale Racecourse. The promoters allegedly disappeared without paying $15 000 performance fees to the National Arts Council of Zimbabwe (NACZ). Bernie Bismark, one of the local…
HARARE – Revenue for local Internet Access Providers (IAPs) increased 7,4 percent to $33,7 million from $31,4 million in the first quarter of this year, the Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) said. In a report for the period under review, Potraz also said mobile phone network operators (MNOs) posted a 14,2 percent…
HARARE – Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote’s choice of investing in Zimbabwe became the most trending story of the past week. For a country that is in the throes of a moribund economy teetering on the brink of slipping into a dysfunctional state, it is expected that visits such as the one by Dangote last…
HARARE – President Morgan Tsvangirai will join thousands from the MDC family at the party’s 16th anniversary celebrations that have been set for Nharira business centre in Chivhu on Saturday, September 12, 2015. At 16, the party has had a long history and has seen thousands of innocent Zimbabweans being brutally attacked, maimed or raped…
HARARE – Combative Zanu PF political commissar and Local Government minister, Saviour Kasukuwere, is under the gun from his ruling party enemies, who are throwing everything at the burly party enforcer in a desperate bid to oust him, including mobilising for a vote of no confidence against him. Insiders who spoke to the Daily News…
HARARE – Disgruntled liberation struggle stalwarts, grouped under the “original” Zanu PF using the slogan, People First, are being cagey about when exactly they plan to officially launch their party. Speaking in an interview with the Daily News last weekend, former Masvingo minister of State, Kudakwashe Bhasikiti and former Presidential Affairs minister Didymus Mutasa said…
VIENNA – The massive flood of refugees in Europe are pushing Germany and Austria to a tipping point. Well over 17,500 refugees have poured into the two countries in just the past two days, trying to escape the bombings, terrorists and dire conditions ravaging their homelands. “We have helped more than 12,000 people in an…
MINNESOTA – The US dentist who sparked an international outcry after killing a lion in Zimbabwe has said he did nothing wrong and is planning to return to work this week. Speaking in his first interview since the July killing of Cecil the lion, Walter Palmer said he had been unaware of the animal’s significance….
WASHINGTON – US Secretary of State John Kerry has expressed concern to Moscow over reports of Russian military build-up in Syria, the state department says. US media reports said Russia has sent advisers and hardware to Syria, in what Washington fears is an expansion of its support for President Bashar al-Assad. Any such development would…
