MAURITIUS – Zambezi News, a parody of the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC), left audience in stitches at the ongoing MultiChoice Content Extravaganza on Friday night. The three-man Zambezi News cast of Samm “Comrade Fatso” Monro, Michael K and Outspoken, which has just returned from a tour of the United Kingdom and the Netherlands, served a…
HARARE – As Zanu PF’s ugly factional and succession wars continue unabated, President Robert Mugabe’s increasingly influential wife, Grace, apparently vetoed efforts by Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa to get the ruling party’s deputy secretary for administration, July Moyo, appointed as a minister of State in the VP’s office. Well-placed sources told the Daily News on…
HARARE – Succession politics in Zanu PF is taking an interesting twist with many in the party now determined to see President Robert Mugabe’s back, albeit for different reasons. While the general card carrying member is reeling under the economic effects of Mugabe’s misrule and therefore wishing the 91-year-old leader calls it quits in anticipation…
HARARE – Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote’s plans to invest millions in constructing a cement plant in Zimbabwe will test the country’s investor climate which has previously scuttled several promising multi-million dollar deals, analysts have said. Africa’s richest man made an inaugural visit to Zimbabwe last week, and outlined his company’s interest in investing in coal…
HARARE – A truck carrying scores of prisoners from Chikurubi Maximum Prison arrives at the Harare Magistrates Courts. The occupants peer through the meshed barricade looking to spot wives, husbands, brothers, sisters and friends, as they are brought to answer further charges. Prisoners tell of being crammed together in tiny cells amidst heavy beatings, torture…
HARARE – Warriors opponents in Sunday’s Africa Cup of Nations qualifier, Guinea, embarrassed Zifa and journalists when it sent them on a wild goose chase by choosing to keep their arrival a secret despite “confirming” they would arrive at midday. As a result, the expectant journalists were kept waiting for more than three hours at…
HARARE – Zimbabwe rowing sensation Micheen Thornycroft could not stand the heat after she finished last in the women’s single sculls semi-final A at the on-going World Rowing Championships in Aiguebelette, France yesterday. Thornycroft has now been relegated to the B final as she gets yet another opportunity to negotiate her way into next year’s…
HARARE – Zimbabwe Juniors Mountain Biking team got a rude awakening at the World Championship MTB in Andorra on Thursday. Stacey Hyslop finished on 37th position out of 45 in a disappointing showing. Skye Davidson pulled out of the race due to injury. Davidson fell twice on the second lap and was forced to abandon…
HARARE – Popular Zimbabwean preacher and founder of Spirit Embassy Church, Uebert Angel last week rocked South Africa where he preached his controversial brand of gospel he calls “good news” to a packed Mt Zion, Beula Park Conference Centre in Germiston and at Wanderers Stadium in Johannesburg. After a year of negative publicity in which…
HARARE – Zimbabwe recorded a 4,7 percent decline in mobile and Internet-based transaction to $490 million in June 2015 from $514,5 million in May due to tight liquidity crisis, latest figures from the central bank indicate. In its monthly economic review for June, the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) said the total value of card…
