HARARE – Mnare-based traditional group, Malamulo Agure, booked themselves a place to compete in the Chibuku Neshamwari Traditional Dance finals scheduled for Bulawayo after emerging as winners of Harare Province on Saturday. Malamulo Agure performed Malawi Nyau dance to clinch the first prize of $500 ahead of other nine groups at an event held at…
HARARE – Songstress Myrah Dube is inspired by international music star Tracy Chapman and she learnt her first guitar song playing the latter’s Stand by Me classic hit. “Since Tracy’s song initiated me into the world of music, I regard her as my hero although I am also inspired by Lira from South Africa —…
HARARE – Hip-hop artiste and New Africa Music director Coco Master has vowed to take local music industry to another level. Coco Master real name Combination Chauya who is set to launch six hip-hop and Afro- pop singles next month told the Daily News that it is now time for local musicians to break into…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) says the country’s mining tax regime must be reviewed, in the wake of shrinking royalties over the past year from the sector. Zimra chairperson Willia Bonyongwe last week said the authority continued to hold discussions with government over the issue with the view that the current regime is…
HARARE – The central bank has moved to clarify on how it intends to award tobacco exporters with a five percent export bonus, following concerns around the printing of bond notes as a way of disbursing the proposed levy. In a statement released to business last week, the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) announced that…
HARARE – A local lobby group, Buy Zimbabwe (Buy Zim), has slashed the country’s economic growth to a paltry 1,5 percent, from an initial 2,7 projection, arguing that economic headwinds were increasing. The local procurement advocate organisation last week joined the International Monetary Fund and World Bank in slashing the country’s economic projection for 2016…
HARARE – Last week, tax collector Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) announced that tax arrears — owed mainly by privately-owned enterprises — had ballooned to $2,58 billion in the first quarter of 2016 from $1, 97 billion in the previous year. The authority’s chairperson, Willia Bonyongwe, said the private companies contributed over 70 percent to the…
HARARE – Conspiracy theories are flying thick and fast within the Zanu PF faction rallying behind embattled Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa after a number of party stalwarts associated with the camp perished in motor vehicle accidents over the weekend. A senior Zanu PF official linked to Team Lacoste (Mnangagwa faction), while careful not to ventilate…
HARARE – High court judge Justice Kudya has ordered supporters of Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s wife, Auxillia, out of a farm owned by a co-operative in her Chirumanzu-Zibagwe constituency. This comes after Auxillia had reportedly confiscated title deeds of Wadzanai Farm in Lalapanzi before she replaced the co-operative’s executive with Zanu PF appointees who she…
MUTARE – Media, Information and Broadcasting Services minister Christopher Mushohwe has admitted that government issued commercial radio broadcasting licences to individuals and companies that do not have the capacity. Speaking at the launch of Diamond FM in Mutare recently, Mushohwe said his office is being inundated by those who were turned down demanding that they…
