HARARE – After four years on the sidelines, Theatre in the Park is expected to make an explosive re-entry on the country’s theatre scene with the rip-roaring political satire that was banned by the Censorship Board in 2003. The play tells the story of a woman living in a non-functioning state. In a queue one…
HARARE – The row between NetOne Cellular (NetOne) and suspended chief executive Reward Kangai’s allies has deepened with Bopela Group (Bopela) petitioning the Institute of Chartered Accountants Zimbabwe (ICAZ) to investigate the company’s chief financial officer Sibusisiwe Ndlovu. This also comes as the “unwanted” executives coming under renewed fire over the Firstel Cellular (Firstel) empowerment…
HARARE – Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE)-listed pharmaceuticals manufacturer Medtech is facing an uncertain future should a strategic transaction fail to go through this year. The group’s chairperson, Rose Mazula, yesterday said Medtech’s future lies in the anticipated transaction, which will see the group place about 70 percent in its medical unit with a potential investor…
HARARE – If the country entertains any hopes of reasserting itself as a bastion of democracy and good governance ahead of the much-anticipated 2018 general elections, like President Robert Mugabe wants the world to believe, the forthcoming by-elections scheduled for April 23 in Guruve South and Mazowe North, Mashonaland Central Province and other parts of…
HARARE – Award-winning film maker Patience Tawengwa recently attended the Annual Harvard Business School Africa Conference in Boston as part of promoting Milele-a Pan-African production house she formed last year to uplift young African artists. The premier annual event, where the keynote address was delivered by Rwandan President Paul Kagame, was attended by luminaries such…
LOME – Togo have appointed Claude LeRoy as their new national team coach to replace Tom Saintfiet. Frenchman LeRoy, 68, has worked on the continent for almost 30 years and has coached at a record eight Africa Cup of Nations tournaments. He has signed a three-year contract and is tasked with trying to qualify Togo…
HARARE – With the warring Zanu PF’s politburo and central committee power structures meeting in Harare today and on Friday respectively to discuss, among other issues, dozens of outstanding disciplinary cases, things don’t look good for the party’s faction loyal to embattled Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa. While there has been a sense over the past…
HARARE – It has emerged that the Kwekwe-based Zanu PF terror group that goes by the sick moniker “Al-Shabaab” went berserk at the weekend, attacking party youths who attended a homecoming rally for President Robert Mugabe at Harare International Airport on his return from Japan. Two Zanu PF Kwekwe district officials, Pambanani Phiri and Lisbon…
HARARE – Zanu PF’s legislator for Bikita West Munyaradzi Kereke yesterday made sensational claims that former Vice President Joice Mujuru, ex-Reserve Bank governor Gideon Gono, ex-Information minister Webster Shamu and Zanu PF spokesperson Simon Khaya Moyo fabricated rape charges against him. Kereke said this during the continuation of his rape trial before Harare regional magistrate…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe government is reluctant to take effective steps to address legislation which excessively violates human rights, a coalition of 21 civil society groups has told the United Nations (UN). This comes after the Geneva-based United Nations Human Rights Council has started its Universal Periodic Review (UPR), scrutinising the human rights records of…
