HARARE – Dubai looks set to become a popular destination for local gospel music stars thanks to a music promotion called Shotey Entertainment run by Zimbabweans based in United Arab Emirates’ most populous city. Shotey Entertainment, formed by husband and wife team, Shorai and Tendai Karimatsenga, hosted rising gospel star Takesure Zamar Ncube on Christmas…
HARARE – Award-winning performance poet Linda Gabriel has been selected for six-week artist-in-residency at AfricAvenir in Berlin, Germany. Gabriel’s residency, at the Berlin-based non-governmental and non-profit organisation that promotes political and cultural education from an African perspective, will run from February 1 to March 12. The talented performance poet told the Daily News that she…
HARARE – Rapper Tapiwa ‘BigTee’ Sekete is happy with the success registered by the Ghetto Gospel Movement that he formed late last year to promote upcoming hip hop talent in the ghettoes. BigTee launched the Ghetto Gospel Movement in November 2015 at Mushandira Pamwe Hotel in Highfield with help from his brother, businessman Fungai Sekete….
HARARE – Namibia’s largest uranium mine, Rossing, is reportedly targeting Murowa Diamonds (Murowa) managing director Zebra Kasete to take up a senior position at the company, businessdaily has learnt. Kasete once worked at Rio Tinto’s Namibia unit since 1987 and rose through the ranks to become general manager corporate services before he was appointed to…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE)’s bearish mode continued into 2016 with the local bourse’s benchmark industrial index slipping into fifth successive loss in thinly-traded sessions during the first week of January. On Friday last week, only 10 stocks were active for the day with thinner exchanges. Statistics from EFE Securities show that there…
HARARE – Creditors of the now-defunct Interfin Bank will next week meet the bank’s liquidator, the Depositors Protection Corporation (DPC), at the Master of the High Court’s offices to finalise compensation. DPC chief executive John Chikura yesterday told the businessdaily that the last meeting had been confirmed for tomorrow (January 14). “The creditors will meet…
HARARE – Reports that the High Court has plans to decentralise is a development that is set to revolutionise the justice delivery system in Zimbabwe. Yesterday, we carried a story that government had approved the decentralisation of the High Court from Harare and Bulawayo by upgrading the present circuit centres in Gweru, Mutare, Masvingo, Hwange…
HARARE – As the ugly infighting ravaging President Robert Mugabe’s post-congress Zanu PF gets more ominous, with yet another minister receiving a bullet parcel on Monday, ruling party opponents of Acting President Emmerson Mnangagwa say “nothing” can save the embattled Midlands godfather and his allies. Well-placed sources told the Daily News yesterday that Mnangagwa’s foes…
HARARE – Government has refused to renew the contracts of 3 000 qualified teachers engaged as contract workers. The teachers have been on yearly contracts. When the Daily News crew visited the Civil Service Commission (CSC) offices in Harare yesterday, dozens of teachers were following up on their applications after they were ignored by government….
HARARE – Local Government minister Saviour Kasukuwere has banned all out-of-town seminars for city fathers with immediate effect. Kasukuwere told a press briefing yesterday that municipal officials were taking advantage of their privilege by constantly taking road trips and claiming out-of-pocket allowances. The ban of out-of-town trips comes barely a year after the Bernard Manyenyeni-led…
