HARARE – Mutare Boys High School student, Mallon Marume won the 2015 DStv Eutelsat Awards for the poster category at continental and country level. Mallon’s triumph means that for the second year in a row, a Zimbabwean student has won a major prize in an international competition organised by MultiChoice Africa and Eutelsat. The annual…
HARARE – For the umpteenth time, we would like to call on the warring Zanu PF regime to stop these useless catfights and try to salvage the economy which is on its knees. It is mind boggling that officials in the governing Zanu PF party are busy at each other’s throats when the economy is…
EDITOR — Zimbabwe is faced with enormous challenges ranging from poverty, unemployed masses and their poor living conditions, to corruption, mushrooming of both shebeens and prosperity gospel churches and so on. This is all prevalent as the government continues to unconsciously spend or rather overspend in the education sector with a somewhat misleading notion that…
HARARE – Zanu PF insiders and observers alike agree that the party has now reached “a point of no return” as its deadly factional and succession wars get uglier by the day — with a senior party official graphically likening the former liberation movement to Humpty Dumpty, the popular nursery rhyme character. All the insiders…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s continued attacks on the late liberation struggle icon, General Solomon Mujuru, are a sign of “cowardice and a terrible indictment on his leadership style”, Zimbabwe People First (ZPF) spokesperson Rugare Gumbo says. Commenting on the nonagenarian’s untested accusations against the late Mujuru — that he wanted Mugabe out of power…
HARARE – Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has hinted that he would be leading mass protests as well as stay away actions to force President Robert Mugabe to implement electoral reforms ahead of the much-anticipated 2018 general elections. Addressing a rally in Marondera at the weekend, the MDC leader said Zimbabwe has reached a critical stage…
BULAWAYO – Diplomats from the Sadc region have promised to mobilise food aid to over four million Zimbabweans faced with hunger saying such a desperate situation requires a multi-faceted response. Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) ambassador to Zimbabwe Mwampanga Mwana-Nanga, who is also the dean of African diplomats in Zimbabwe, revealed this after a two-day…
HARARE – Harare City Council (HCC) has engaged a local company that will be setting up a pilot project that will manage commuter omnibuses as well as billboards advertisement so as to avoid leakages. In minutes of the environmental committee, Southern Region Trading approached HCC with the proposal in 2015. According to HCC director of…
HARARE – As embattled Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s allies ramp up their rebellion against President Robert Mugabe, some kingpins of the faction say it’s now time for the nonagenarian to leave office — claiming that even the Chinese no longer want to see him in power. Speaking to the Daily News on Sunday at the…
HARARE – It reads like a story plucked from a fiction novel, an adopted daughter being cast into the wilderness by her aging father, and out in the jungle there is nowhere for her to go but to return armed and claim what she thought was hers, even by default. That Joice Runaida Mujuru is…
