HARARE – Former St George’s College student Stuart Krog made his university arrival in the United States with a memorable affair when he finished fourth at the World Junior Golf Series in Florida which concluded on Thursday. Krog opened his campaign at the American Junior Tournament which took place at the World Golf Village in…
HARARE – It needed the crowd-pulling exploits of the red-hot Winky D and Jah Prayzah to finally accomplish what a succession of local and foreign artistes had found unattainable over the last few years — filling up the giant Harare International Conference Centre (HICC). Despite limited time to promote the gig fittingly dubbed “Fill Up…
HARARE – Chimurenga music legend Thomas “Mukanya” Mapfumo is confident he will finally end his decade-long absence from his homeland. The United States of America-based music star made the promise in his wide-ranging end-of-year statement for 2015 released on New Year’s Eve. “We are working with some local promoters who are eager to have us…
HARARE – Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa says he is moving to establish a special division in the ministry of Finance to implement recommendations from Auditor and Comptroller General (AG), Midred Chiri’s reports. Chinamasa, who has also created a dedicated Public Enterprises Reform and Monitoring Unit in the Accountant General’s Department under his ministry —recently told…
HARARE – A panicky post-congress Zanu PF is making frantic preparations for yet more Parliamentary by-elections after it emerged earlier this week that dozens of the party’s legislators are holding meetings with former Vice President Joice Mujuru with the intention of joining her People First movement. Well-placed sources told the Daily News yesterday that it…
HARARE – Fed-up civil servants have warned the government against continuing to give them empty bonus promises, and are now demanding that their employer gives them the exact dates when their 13th cheques will be paid. This follows last week’s threat by government workers to go on strike beginning yesterday if the State failed to…
HARARE – Conflicting reports surrounded day one of the planned health workers’ strike yesterday, following their rejection of government’s offer of a $1 per day transport allowance to see them through to the payment of their delayed December 2015 salaries. The nurses and doctors had threatened to bring the country’s health sector to its knees…
HARARE – Greater Harare Commuter Operators Association secretary-general Ngoni Katsvairo says the new $100 traffic fines are far from the solution to road carnage as government would have motorists believe. Motorists this week awoke to steep new fines for various traffic offences from between $5 and $20 to a maximum of $100 following their approval…
HARARE – Former Vice President Joice Mujuru has described President Robert Mugabe’s administration as immoral and presiding over a lethargic and dying economy, throwing the majority of Zimbabweans into abject poverty. In her New Year’s message to Zimbabweans yesterday the popular widow of the late liberation struggle icon, Solomon Mujuru, slammed Mugabe and his post-congress…
HARARE – Businessman and musician-cum Zanu PF political activist Energy Mutodi has branded vice president Phelekezela Mphoko a failure who has fuelled debilitating factional fights in the ruling party. In his Political Personality Check List posted on his Facebook page yesterday, which ranks Zanu PF politburo members’ ability to among other things promote unity, peace…
