HARARE – Steward Bank (Steward) — a subsidiary of Econet Wireless Zimbabwe — has partnered with fuel retailer, Total Zimbabwe (Total), in a move aimed at making agent banking services easily accessible to everybody in the country. Unveiling the joint venture, Steward Bank chief executive officer, Lance Mambondiani, said banking institutions had to craft mechanisms…
HARARE – Local gospel artistes have been invited to take part in the continental Trumpet Africa Gospel Music Awards (Tagma) which will take place at Pretoria State Theatre, South Africa on May 29. Tagma, which is the brainchild of World Gospel Powerhouse — the producers of South Africa’s Crown Gospel Music Awards — seeks to…
HARARE – Pole dancers Zoey Noleen Sifelani and Beverly Sibanda — who have had a stormy relationship for several years — have decided to put aside their differences. The two “rivals” will jointly celebrate their birthdays at the City Sports Bar in Harare tomorrow. Bev turned 25 on April 23 while tomorrow’s event will coincide…
HARARE – French arts expert Camille Bourdier will jet into Zimbabwe tomorrow for a conference at the invitation of Alliance Francaise Harare and the French Embassy. Bourdier, a senior lecturer in Prehistoric Art at Toulouse University in France and a member of the Chaviet Cave Research Team, is in Zimbabwe to study Zimbabwe’s rock art…
HARARE – Buoyed by recent events in the warring Zanu PF, the party faction rallying behind embattled Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s mooted presidential aspirations are said to be resuscitating their plans to either persuade or cause President Robert Mugabe (pictured) to retire before the country’s eagerly-anticipated 2018 national elections. Well-placed Zanu PF sources told the…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s recent promise to review the salary of civil servants upwards should not be taken seriously since he is a master of doublespeak, a respected South Africa-based think-tank has said. The Oxford-linked NKC African Economics (NKC) in its latest research instalment on Zimbabwe said Mugabe’s promises will always be “whisperings in…
HARARE – As tensions between government and rebels reach boiling point in neighbouring Mozambique, Zimbabwe is making contingency plans for a possible influx of refugees from that country and the region at large, a Cabinet minister said. Speaking after meeting the United Nations Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) country representative Robert Tibagwa, minister of Social Services…
HARARE – Parliament has invited five power companies to clarify issues surrounding the awarding of tenders and aggregation on the sale of electricity pre-paid meters. Among the companies summoned by the parliamentary portfolio committee on Energy to give oral evidence are Pito Private Limited, which is expected to brief the committee on tenders relating to…
HARARE – Popular Zimbabwean preacher, Emmanuel Makandiwa prophesied about the xenophobic violence that recently rocked the Zambian capital, Lusaka, according to a video posted on YouTube. The video, which shows Makandiwa predicting the disturbances on April 9, exactly nine days before they began, has gone viral on social media platforms. In the video which shows…
HARARE – As Zanu PF continues playing the brinkmanship game, war veterans in the party are of the view that something has gone terribly wrong in the governing party’s commissariat department. Our senior staff writer Mugove Tafirenyika (Q) speaks to the spokesperson of the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association, Douglas Mahiya (A) on these…
