SANDTON – It takes tremendous courage to use your last borrowed cent to sow a seed on hard soil and expect a bumper harvest. But some people are just born with a will to overcome even when faced with the toughest adversity. Reigning Mrs Zimbabwe Regina Jonga, touched down in Sandton City this week from…
HARARE – South African gospel diva Rebecca Malope came to Harare and conquered although the crowd turnout was not high, a development attributed to the low winter temperatures. The 48-year-old musician was the main act at a concert dubbed “Gospel Divas” featuring several other local female gospel musicians. [GoogleAd] Braving the chilly weather on Saturday…
HARARE – Centenary-based Nyau cultural group, Kalawe Nyau, booked themselves a place to compete in the Chibuku Neshamwari Traditional Dance national finals scheduled for Bulawayo after emerging as winners of Mashonaland Central Province on Saturday. Kalawe Nyau club showcased Zambia nyau dance to clinch the first prize of $500 ahead of other eight groups at…
HARARE – Property investment and development firm, Mashonaland Holdings (Mash Holdings), has reported a five percent decline in revenue to $2,8 million in the half-year to March 2016 due to increasing void levels and downward rental reviews. In the period under review, the group’s rental yield fell to six percent from seven percent in prior…
HARARE – Cooking oil producers anticipate a 30 percent slump in production from the current 8 000-10 000 metric tonnes (MT) being manufactured per month, on the back of payment delays to the sector’s suppliers. United Refineries chief executive Busisa Moyo last week told the businessdaily that payments to raw material suppliers were not being…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s move to pardon more than 2 000 inmates across the country is a welcome move as it will decongest overcrowded national prisons where inmates have often complained of poor living conditions which lead outbreaks of deadly diseases at the institutions. Mugabe freed the convicts from 46 prisons under a special…
HARARE – While Zanu PF’s recent one million-man march has come and gone, social and political commentator contend it has not changed anything at all as corruption, hunger, joblessness and money shortages continue unabated. Human rights activist Dewa Mavhinga said this was a circus right out of George Orwell’s satirical novel Animal farm. [GoogleAd] “The…
HARARE – As the the urban population continues to swell, Harare is now running out of public ablution facilities, council spokesperson Michael Chideme has said. In an interview with the Daily News last week, Chideme said people coming into the city to trade daily are now congesting the few toilets that are available. [GoogleAd] The…
HARARE – Former Zanu PF youth league boss Pupurai Togarepi says his tiff with other youth league members, who are aligned to the Generation 40 (G40) faction, started when he refused to support the expulsion of former women’s league spokesperson Monica Mutsvangwa. Togarepi was recently ousted from the youth league in a vote of no…
HARARE – Although temperatures are dropping drastically as winter settles in, few believe images that are circulating on social media of “snow” in the traditionally cold city of Gweru. According to reports, areas in lower Gweru were on Friday covered in “snow” as temperatures dipped. [GoogleAd] But nobody seems to believes the reports, including the…
