HARARE – The Zimbabwe Football Legends Trust (ZFLT) says they have pulled out of Friday’s testimonial against their Zambian and African counterparts while the organisers maintain the match is still on at Mandava Stadium. ZFLT chairperson Stanford “Stix” Mutizwa wrote to Zifa CEO Jonathan Mashingaidze informing him on their withdrawal. “This has been necessitated by…
HARARE – Noone from the Bob Marley Foundation will grace the Zimbabwe Music Awards (Zima) awards taking place tonight at the Harare International Conference Centre where the late reggae legend is being controversially awarded the Life Time Achievement gong by the organisers. The awards will be running for the second year having taking a seven-year…
HARARE – Charles Mungoshi Jnr will on Thursday next week launch an inspirational title The Curse of Being Young and Successful: Inspired by the Life of Chamu Chiwanza at the Meikles Hotel in Harare. Mungoshi Jnr, who is son to renowned Shona and English novelist-cum-poet Charles Mungoshi, will also release four more 2016 titles on…
HARARE – Vimpelcom Limited (VimpelCom) says it still owns a majority stake in Telecel Zimbabwe (Private) Limited (Telecel), as negotiations with the government over the 60 percent buy out continue. Last year, VimpelCom was pressured by President Robert Mugabe’s administration to sell its stake in the mobile phone operator to Zarnet after its offers to…
HARARE – Low international prices saw Zimbabwe’s largest platinum producer, Zimplats, reporting a 12 percent decrease in revenue for the half year to December 2015 despite a surge in sales volumes. In its interim results published yesterday, the platinum miner said its revenue decreased to $20,4 million in the six months to December last year…
HARARE – The recent move by government to appropriate claims owned by diamond companies in Marange does not only smack of hypocrisy but also puts the country on a collision course with foreign investors and taints its relationship with China and Russia. While it is true that all the diamond firms operating in Marange had…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s vaunted multi-billion dollar energy and infrastructure deals with China are “in jeopardy” following Harare’s ill-advised seizure of all diamond mining claims in Chiadzwa, including those owned by Anjin Investments (Private) Limited (Anjin). The controversial decision does not only have a negative impact on investment inflows into the country, but it has already…
HARARE – The Zanu PF war over President Robert Mugabe’s 92nd birthday bash to be held in Masvingo on Saturday continues unabated — amid claims that the party faction rallying behind embattled Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s mooted presidential aspirations is still planning to scuttle the event. Well-placed Zanu PF sources told the Daily News yesterday…
HARARE – Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has rubbished photographs linking him with scantily dressed women after an MDC function in Gweru last weekend, describing any suggestion of impropriety as absolutely ridiculous. Tsvangirai was photographed seated with an excited harem of smartly dressed ladies in a park in Gweru, some in cleavage-baring tank tops and bum…
HARARE – Dozens of kombi and taxi operators are crying foul over the delay by police to release their impounded vehicles even after they have paid fines. But national police spokesperson senior assistant commissioner Charity Charamba said police were still vetting the vehicles. “Police do not just impound vehicles for no reason,” Charamba told the…
