HARARE – Premiership new boys Ngezi Platinum Stars have been given the green light to host CAPS United on Sunday afternoon at their newly-constructed Baobab Stadium in Ngezi from the Premier Soccer League (PSL). The league’s chief executive, Kennedy Ndebele, confirmed the development in a letter sent to the clubs yesterday. The platinum miners’ clash…
HARARE – Delta Beverages insists they remain committed to helping local golf improve shown by their continued support of the Golden Pilsener Zimbabwe Open championship. The tournament tees off next Thursday at the Royal Harare Golf Club with a field of at lead 141 golfers fighting for honours. Delta Beverages’ Golden Pilsener brand manager Paida…
HARARE – The Miss Carnival title reportedly fell vacant in December last year after the incumbent Chengetai Kanonhuwa (20) left the country after enrolling with a university in South Africa. A well-placed source, who declined to be named, said Kanonhuwa’s reign was supposed to continue until the crowning of a new queen but her sudden…
HARARE – Sungura ace Alick Macheso will make a rare performance in the Harare city centre tonight. The sungura star, who launched his latest album Tsoka Dzerwendo (Ayayaa) at Harare International Conference Centre on March 24, is expected to draw a big crowd at the Private Lounge where he is celebrating the success of the…
HARARE – Veteran sungura artiste Nicholas Zakaria, who first ventured into music in 1975, has promised to release his first “political album” in July this year. The Mabvi Nemagokora hit-maker said the worsening economic situation has prompted him to come up with songs that he hopes will make politicians mend their ways. “Over the years,…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s insurance companies are facing an uncertain future after the Insurance and Pensions Commission (Ipec) has hiked minimum capital requirements by 66 percent to $2,5 million. The insurance watchdog yesterday said although all non-life insurance companies had complied with the $1,5 million minimum threshold at the end of the fourth quarter of 2015,…
HARARE – Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board (Timb) says the current cash shortages being experienced by farmers will be addressed as the season progresses. This comes as tobacco farmers were this year ordered to open bank accounts where their proceeds would be deposited. However, the process has not been smooth sailing as farmers — who…
EDITOR — I was saddened by the recent clumsiness depicted by the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) when they showed a photoshopped picture of Mbuya Nehanda and the once infamous “tezvara” aka uncle Barnabas. Surely, someone is employed to look into what is aired on the news, especially prime time news. How can the producer, video…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe and his entourage flew back into the country at the weekend after a week’s visit to Japan where he held bilateral talks with that country’s Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe. Although relations between both countries hit a low in 2000 when Japan suspended technical cooperation, except for humanitarian aid, after Mugabe…
GWERU – Retired Zanu PF elder, Cephas Msipa, who has been one of the few voices of reason in the warring ruling party, says keeping President Robert Mugabe in power is tantamount to “punishing” the increasingly frail nonagenarian, further urging the long-ruling leader to retire immediately. Speaking in an exclusive interview with the Daily News…
