HARARE – Tswana songstress Charma Gal, who collaborated with Jah Prayzah on the hit Dali Wami, will add a foreign flavour to a star-studded cast of artistes set to perform at the Makomo@5 gig tonight in Hwange. The gig, meant to celebrate Makomo Resources’ fifth anniversary in Zimbabwe’s mining sector, will feature top local artistes…
HARARE – Zimbabwe has conceded failure on addressing the current power crisis and yesterday urged mining companies to import electricity on their own to mitigate the situation. Energy minister Samuel Undenge told delegates at the on-going Mining Indaba that the acute power crisis currently being experienced in the country would only be addressed by the…
HARARE – First Lady Grace Mugabe’s attack on the private media on Wednesday in Rushinga — which is clearly part of a disquieting attempt by Zanu PF officials to intimidate the independent media from exposing the raging factional wars in the ruling party — needs to be taken seriously. The first lady’s emotional outburst against…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s controversial wife, Grace — who is increasingly seen as eager to succeed her husband — has bluntly told her post-congress Zanu PF foes who harbour presidential ambitions to leave the former liberation movement and form their own parties. Speaking ahead of her Rushinga rally on Wednesday, and in remarks that…
HARARE – Zanu PF’s politburo yesterday threw its weight behind Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa’s efforts to re-engage the World Bank, IMF and African Development Bank (AfDB). This comes as War Veterans minister Chris Mutsvangwa, a key ally of vice president and succession aspirant Emmerson Mnangagwa, slammed Chinamasa’s pro-IMF strategy claiming “some of the ministers in…
LAGOS – At least 39 people have died after multiple explosions in the Nigerian city of Maiduguri, an emergency official says. Three female suicide bombers, thought to be aged between 11 and 15, struck on Friday morning, an official with the National Emergency Management Agency told BBC Hausa. It follows bomb attacks on a mosque…
ANKARA – EU states have backed an action plan with Turkey, which it is hoped will ease the flow of migrants to Europe. Nearly 600,000 migrants have reached the EU by sea so far this year, many of them travelling from Turkey. The leaders agreed to speed up visa liberalisation talks for Turks if Ankara…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s ominous warning to Zanu PF bigwigs on his return from the United Nations a fortnight ago, that no one in the warring ruling party could stand in the way of the wishes of his wife Grace appears to be coming to pass. As Grace addressed her latest power exhibition show…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) has lost more than $2,5 billion since President Robert Mugabe’s controversial re-election in the disputed 2013 national elections, in what analysts say is a clear sign of low business confidence in the country. Economic and political experts who spoke to the Daily News yesterday also said the post-congress…
HARARE – Former Vice President Joice Mujuru has no intention of meeting President Robert Mugabe and plans to form her own party that will battle it out with the post-congress Zanu PF in the 2018 general elections, it was announced yesterday. Dismissing speculation that has been on the rumour mill that Mujuru had secretly met…
