HARARE – Sensing the demise of faction-torn Zanu PF, youths in the MDC led by Morgan Tsvangirai are now setting up and strengthening regional structures ahead of the much-anticipated 2018 elections. Speaking to the Daily News, MDC youths leader Happymore Chidziva said they will not fold arms while Zanu PF destroys the country. “We need…
HARARE – Government has finally given debt-saddled Air Zimbabwe the green-light to seek an investment partner to help in its revival efforts. Presently, the airline is struggling to service a lease agreement of $200 000 per month per plane for the two A320 aircraft leased from China Sonangol since 2012 and it has also been…
HARARE – The Health Services Board (HSB) should convince government of the importance of care workers and ensure that they are fully capacitated, the Community Working Group (CWG) on Health has said. In an interview with the Daily News last week, CWG’s executive director Itai Rusike said HSB’s impact should be felt when they lobby…
HARARE – The country’s current crop of leadership is thriving on the fact that the people they lead are ill-informed of their rights enshrined in the Constitution, Election Resource Centre (ERC) executive director Tawanda Chimhini has said. Chimhini, whose organisation has been conducting road shows in rural communities since 2014 said over the years they…
DHAKA – More than 50 people across Bangladesh have died after being struck by lightning in the past two days, police say. Many of the dead were farmers who were killed as they worked in their paddy fields. Bangladesh is prone to electrical storms but this year they have been particularly severe. Experts suggest a…
JOHANNESBURG – Nelson Mandela’s arrest in 1962 came as a result of a tip-off from an agent of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), a report says. The revelations, made in the Sunday Times newspaper, are based on an interview with ex-CIA agent Donald Rickard shortly before he died. Mr Mandela served 27 years in…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) is in danger of missing out on further Fifa Goal Project funding after losing the artificial turf installed at the Zifa Village in Mt Hampden. Zifa in 2009 successfully applied for financial assistance from the world soccer governing body and was granted a total of $515 444 under…
HARARE – Playing her own interpretation of Winky D’s Musarova Bigman at the Zimbabwe Achievers Awards (ZAA) in London last week is turning out to be an inspired decision for 22-year-old Zimbabwean indie/folk singer Gemma Griffiths. Despite her performances at events such ZAA, Harare International Festival of Arts (Hifa), Miombo Magic in Harare and ZimFest…
HARARE – High-riding music star Jah Prayzah says he will continue to unleash new music onto the market so as to remain relevant. Even though his latest album Jerusarema, which he launched in May last year, is still fairly competitive, the Uzumba-born musician has already lined up a new album. “I think the Zimbabwean music…
HARARE – While the white garment-donning apostolic sects used to pray into the night, a new by-law regulating open space worship has set 6pm as the cut off time for church services. The new by-law, Control of Worship in Open Spaces 2016, will see Harare City Council (HCC) regulating how various churches operate on municipal…
