HARARE – Champion “Mbewe” Chienderamwano etched his name into the history books after winning the Mr Zimbabwe title for a third time on the trot on Saturday night. The event attracted high level dignitaries led by Sports and Recreation minister Makhosini Hlongwane. Sports and Recreation Commission board chairperson Edward Siwela, director-general Charles Nhemachena and director…
HARARE – Top comedian, Sam Monro aka Comrade Fatso will be hosting the African Entertainment Awards USA (AEA-USA) scheduled for October 31 in New Jersey, USA. The comedian/musician/actor will co-host the event with American comedian and actor, Hassan Oliver. Comrade Fatso was also nominated in the Best Comedian category alongside the likes of Trevor Noah,…
HARARE – Presidential spokesperson and permanent secretary for Media, Information and Broadcasting Services, George Charamba’s recent threats that the country’s private media had turned into hate groups, hence the hammer could fall on them is just an “empty threat” meant to cow journalists so they do not continue debating Zanu PF’s succession, media activists have…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s trade deficit widened to $2,3 billion in the nine months to September 2015, in a latest clear sign of the Zanu PF government’s failure to reign in the country’s moribund economy. Figures released on Friday by the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (Zimstat) revealed that the country imported goods worth $4 billion between…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe, as the commander-in-chief of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces and patron of the war veterans needs to make the right noises to dissuade members of his party from fomenting divisions in these two critical constituencies. This also includes having a private word with his wife — Grace — whose attacks on…
HARARE – The jostling for power between President Robert Mugabe’s feuding deputies Emmerson Mnangagwa and Phelekezela Mphoko is intensifying — amid suggestions that Mphoko, for long seen as junior to Mnangagwa, is now overtaking his counterpart in the Zanu PF and State pecking order. Insiders who spoke to the Daily News yesterday said Mphoko’s freshly-awarded…
BULAWAYO – Outspoken former Hurungwe West Member of Parliament, Temba Mliswa, says it is no longer a secret that President Robert Mugabe’s controversial wife, Grace, is gunning to succeed her nonagenarian husband as president. Addressing journalists at the Bulawayo Press Club at the weekend, Mliswa also said that everything that the increasingly-powerful First Lady was…
HARARE – Former Zanu PF Mashonaland West provincial chairman Temba Mliswa claims he was never part of a faction but respected the elected officials including Joice Mujuru whom he says betrayed him. He speaks to Senior Assistant Editor Guthrie Munyuki and below are the excerpts of the interview. Q: You were sacked for putting your…
BEIJING – China’s economy grew 6.9% in the third quarter, the weakest rate since the global financial crisis. The year-on-year growth rate is also below the government’s 7% target. Though slightly above expectations, the data is expected to raise pressure on policymakers to step up monetary policy to stem the slowdown. China’s economy has been…
CAIRO – Polls have opened in Egypt in the first round of long-delayed elections to choose a new parliament. They are the first such elections since the previous chamber was dissolved by a court ruling in 2012. The authorities say the poll is the final step in a transition to democracy. However, critics say most…
