HARARE – Musician Soul Jah Love had the last laugh in 2015 after being crowned the best Zimdancehall artiste at a Coca-Cola function held at Mandel Training Centre in Harare recently despite the fact that the year was dominated by two artistes — in the form of Killer T and Winky D. Soul Jah Love…
HARARE – Sungura giant Alick Macheso will share the stage with lady-of-the-moment Lyn Magodo aka Lady Storm or simply Eriza tonight at Werras Sports Bar in Glen View, Harare. It seems fans are not getting enough with Eriza’s dancing skills ever since she featured on Jah Prayzah’s video Eriza. Recently, she shared the stage with…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s mining sector is set to grow by 1,6 percent this year on the back of improved production, the country’s Chamber of Mines has projected. According to findings of the Chamber’s study, titled “The State of the Mining Industry Survey, Report on Findings 2015”, 40 percent of local mining companies surveyed said they…
HARARE – Industry minister, Mike Bimha, says the country is going to maintain a stringent approach to issuing import permits to protect local industry and cut on an ever ballooning import bill. Bimha said the move was against cheaper imports as the United States Dollar (US$), the country’s main currency struggled against weaker regional currencies…
HARARE – Platinum miner Aquarius Platinum Limited (Aquarius) — a 50 percent shareholder in Zimbabwe’s second largest platinum producer, Mimosa — is in talks with government over the official gazetting of amendments to export tax on un-beneficiated platinum. In a statement accompanying the group’s financials for the half year to December 31, Aquarius chief executive…
HARARE – The battle for political supremacy in the country ahead of the eagerly-anticipated 2018 national elections is getting hotter, with former Vice President Joice Mujuru finally moving to register her People First movement with the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec). An elated People First spokesperson, Rugare Gumbo, told the Daily News yesterday that the outfit,…
HARARE – Hawkish presidential spokesperson George Charamba is more and more flaunting his favoured side in Zanu PF’s succession wars, moving yesterday to shellack savagely all the party opponents of embattled Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Speaking in an interview with ZiFM radio last night, Charamba labelled the ruling party’s ambitious Young Turks who go by…
HARARE – Victims of Airport illegal structures demolitions have been resettled in Harare’s South’s Stoneridge suburb with the MP for the area Shadreck Mashayamombe yesterday appealing to elements resisting the resettlement exercise to heed the government’s call. Speaking to the affected families in Harare South yesterday, Mashayamombe appealed to donor partners to chip in and…
HARARE – Organisers of the “longest kiss” contest have said Buhera South Zanu PF legislator Joseph Chinotimba has confirmed his participation in the smooching competition scheduled for Harare next month. The event is being organised by Book of African Records and will see passionate couples lock lips in an attempt to break the record for…
HARARE – Damning new research claims almost two in every 10 children aged between 13 and 15 in Zimbabwe start smoking in a shocking national average. The ministry of Health and Child Care revealed the figures as part of a campaign to reduce the attraction of tobacco to children after a probe carried out in…
