HARARE – Despite ongoing valiant efforts by Reserve Bank governor John Mangudya to mitigate Zimbabwe’s biting cash crisis and assure wary citizens that all will be well, long and winding bank queues abounded around Zimbabwe yesterday. Depositors who spoke to news crews from the Daily News on Sunday said they were making frantic efforts to…
HARARE – There are growing fears within Zanu PF that #ThisFlag campaign by cleric Evan Mawarire could incite long-suffering Zimbabweans to revolt Arab Spring-style, and spell the end of President Robert Mugabe’s 36-year-old rule. Apparently petrified of falling in the way regimes in the Arab world were dethroned, Zanu PF has launched its counter #OurFlag…
HARARE – Veteran actor and producer Stephen Chigorimbo, best known for his role as John Huni in the local soap Studio 263, is now a cleric. Chigorimbo’s face was a popular feature on television screens in the early 2000s where he played the father of the rebellious Joyce Huni (Tinopona Katsande). “I am actually a leader…
HARARE – Poor service delivery is the key driver of the typhoid outbreak in Harare, city director of health Prosper Chonzi has said. According to health committee minutes, Chonzi said since January 22, there had been 101 suspected cases, 13 confirmed and no deaths from the disease. Chonzi said the water and sanitation situation in…
HARARE – Our Staff Writer Blessings Mashaya speaks to the opposition MDC shadow finance minister Tapiwa Mashakada on bond notes. Q. What is the likely impact of the current cash crisis the country is grappling with given concerns from some quarters that government shoved the bond notes down people’s throats without consulting? A. The currency…
HARARE – Public Service minister Prisca Mupfumira has blamed her Finance counterpart Patrick Chinamasa for inconveniencing pensioners by failing to communicate in time when Treasury has failed to raise money to pay them. Mupfumira said this in the Senate last week while responding to MDC legislator Lillian Timveos who wanted to know what policy government has…
BULAWAYO – Fashion designer Saneliso Mpofu, who was part of a select group of 22 designers from six countries invited to showcase their creations at the recent two-day Tshwane Fashion Festival in South Africa, attributes her rising fortunes to God. The award-winning designer told the Daily News on Sunday that she counts herself lucky to be…
HARARE – IT IS pleasing to note that more and more Zimbabweans are beginning to gather the courage to confront the Zanu PF regime. However, it appears we left it until too late to remind the powers that be that they were leading the whole nation astray. At independence in 1980, the Zanu PF government…
HARARE – United Kingdom-based Simba Mupfudze, Tonde Nembaware and Jake Gardner have set out on a mission to add an international dimension to sungura music. The trio, which goes by the name Kambo, has just released a sungura song titled Melo that is accompanied by a swanky video .The song’s video — which is not…
BULAWAYO – Renowned historian Pathisa Nyathi says the Amagugu International Heritage Centre resulted from a dream he had a decade ago. Amagugu situated 60km along the Bulawayo-Kezi road, which Nyathi founded in 2010, organises a variety of cultural, educational and recreational programmes for the public to learn and appreciate different facets of indigenous heritage, history and…
