HARARE – Zimbabweans who once danced to songs like Let it Play and those nonstop jiggles on the State broadcaster like Hondo yeminda should yet again brace for more as Higher Education minister Jonathan Moyo says he has penned nearly 100 songs that are yet to be released. Writing on his Twitter account, Moyo the…
PORTO-NOVO – Benin’s outgoing Prime Minister Lionel Zinsou has conceded defeat to businessman Patrice Talon in Sunday’s presidential run-off. Mr Zinsou posted on Facebook that he had called Mr Talon to congratulate him “on his victory and wish him luck”. President Thomas Boni Yayi is stepping down after two terms. Mr Talon, known as the…
HAVANA – President Barack Obama is in Cuba for a historic three-day visit to the island and talks with its communist leader. He is the first sitting US president to visit since the 1959 revolution, which heralded decades of hostility between the two countries. Speaking at the reopened US embassy in Havana, he called the…
HARARE – While veterans of the liberation struggle deserve the respect of all Zimbabweans, when they align themselves to a particular political party and fail to rise above partisan interests to focus on national interests that they sacrificed life and limb for prior to independence, they lose the respect of some segments of the population,…
HARARE – In arguably the most devastating blow to befall the Zanu PF faction rallying behind embattled Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s mooted presidential aspirations, one of the Midlands godfather’s most trusted allies, July Moyo, has now also been booted out of the warring governing party. Interim Zanu PF Midlands chairperson Tapiwa Matangaidze told the Daily…
HARARE – In a rare moment of candour since he hounded former Vice President Joice Mujuru from Zanu PF in late 2014, President Robert Mugabe yesterday gave a definitive reason why his former number two had been purged from the party. Speaking at a Zanu PF rally at Chipadze Stadium in Bindura, the nonagenarian suggested…
HARARE – Associated Newspapers of Zimbabwe (ANZ) — publishers of the market-leading Daily News, the Daily News on Sunday and the Weekend Post — have filed papers to defend a $1 million defamation lawsuit that model Tafadzwa Mushunje is launching against the company. Mushunje’s legal action against ANZ follows the publication by the Daily News…
HARARE – All roads tonight lead to Pakare Paye Arts Centre in Norton where a number of prominent musicians will take turns to entertain friends and fans of the late Sam Mtukudzi in a gig dubbed “Sam Mtukudzi Commemoration”. While the main focus will be on Gary Tight, who will perform Sam’s songs, music fans…
HARARE – Old Mutual’s mortgage lending unit Central African Building Society (Cabs) total asset base increased by 22 percent to $1 billion from $852 million in the year to December 2015 mainly driven by a 27 percent growth in deposits. Cabs’ chairman Leonard Tsumba said total assets now stood at $1,04 billion while the society’s…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s trade deficit declined by 19 percent to $380 million in the first two months of 2016 compared with a year earlier, as a result of tight import regulations and low liquidity levels in the country. The trade gap was down from $472 million at the end of February 2015, data released by…
