HARARE – Log leaders Old Georgians (OGs) cemented their position at the summit of the Harare Rugby League with a 5-51 win over hosts Harare Sports Club (HSC) on Saturday night. The visitors took an assailable 5-28 lead going into the break and continued with the onslaught after the breather to end the match 5-51…
MUTARE – The Old Mutual Dangamvura Fun Run, whose male and female 10km events were won by veteran campaigners Jacob Mugomeri and Constance Nyasango respectively, proved an instant hit with 671 athletes participating. The organisers only expected 400 athletes to show up. Olympiad Wirimayi Zhuwawo came home in second place with a time of 30:56 behind…
HARARE – The Dynamos executive has not yet reached a final decision on whether to sack or retain Portuguese coach Paulo Jorge Silva after the team’s poor start to the 2016 Castle Lager Premiership season. The Dynamos hierarchy had given Silva and his technical department an ultimatum to win three matches on the trot or…
HARARE – Miss Zimbabwe Trust chairperson Marry Chiwenga claims an unnamed senior official in the modelling industry was duping models into posing nude. Chiwenga, who took over from the late Kiki Divaris as chairperson of the Miss Zimbabwe Trust four years ago, told the Daily News that the official was misleading Miss World Zimbabwe hopefuls…
HARARE – South African artiste Jeremy Olivier flawlessly performed Oliver “Tuku” Mtukudzi’s song Neria on the reality television singing competition called The Voice (South Africa) as a dedication to his mother on Mother’s Day. After the performance, the Chinhoyi-born Olivier described the sound track for the 1993 film as a song close to his heart…
HARARE – Protest musician Raymond Majongwe says he will do a joint song with chimurenga music legend Thomas Mapfumo. Majongwe, who is also a veteran trade unionist, told the Daily News that they agreed on the collaboration on the sidelines of a show the two held on April 16 in Leicester in the United Kingdom…
HARARE – Local companies and other corporates should also consider sponsoring theatre development and the world of film as both spheres are lagging behind, a top actress has said. Chipo Eva Bizure who started acting in 2000 when she was 16, bemoaned the absence of serious sponsorship packages saying this was slowing down progress in…
HARARE – Amsterdam-based mobile phone operator VimpelCom is seeking President Robert Mugabe’s assistance to secure an outstanding $30 million from the sale of its 60 percent shareholding in Telecel Zimbabwe (Telecel). People privy to goings-on at the Nasdaq-listed telecommunications company told businessdaily that VimpelCom has since written to the nonagenarian leader to allow his government to…
HARARE – The African Development Bank (AfDB) has set aside resources to write off Zimbabwe’s $601 million debt, Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa has said. Chinamasa last week told Parliament that the regional money lender had secured funding to write-off arrears for indebted African countries such as Somalia, Sudan and Zimbabwe. “…these resources were to be…
HARARE – Zimbabwe is in bilateral talks with China to use the Chinese yuan renminbi (yuan) as a trade currency between the two countries, in a move aimed at easing cash shortages, businessdaily has learnt. Central bank governor John Mangudya last week said the country was in discussions with the People’s Bank of China to…
