HARARE – Miss Zimbabwe Trust, coordinators of Miss World Zimbabwe pageant are targeting university students as potential candidates for the coveted national title. Miss Zimbabwe Trust programmes and communications manager, Tendai Chirau said there will be a boot camp sometime in July, time which they will hold the finale. “Most university students closed school last…
HARARE – Nyau group Bheni Arinoti from Redwing Mine in Mutare won Chibuku Neshamwari Traditional Dance Manicaland provincial finals while Sekunjalo MaAfrica were crowned Bulawayo province winners on Saturday. The Manicaland provincials were held at Vhengere Stadium in Rusape, while Habane Bar in Esigodini hosted Bulawayo finals. Bheni Arinoti won ahead of Watyamhembwe, Machena Traditional…
HARARE – RioZim chairman Lovemore Chihota has come under fire from the company’s shareholders and other interested stakeholders for misleading the nation on the Murowa Diamonds (Murowa) deal. Chihota told the country that global resources firm Rio Tinto, which operated in Zimbabwe for close to 60 years, disposed its 78 percent shareholding in Murowa to…
EDITOR — I write in response to your last week article titled Churches call on Mugabe to resign . This is a move in the right direction by the churches as previously the media was always coming up with programmes that criticised the Church for being involved in politics. The unexpected statements by the Church…
HARARE – Cash-strapped State hospitals are routinely detaining patients to press family members and friends to pay up — sending a message to poor people to stay away. In government-run hospitals, there should be provisions meant to waive the bills for the poorest patients, but the policy is rarely applied properly — even in the…
NAIROBI – An unknown gang reportedly broke into a Catholic church in Kenya and made off with offerings on Sunday night. According to Nairobi News, the incident took place on Sunday evening in Meru County, some 200km north east of the Kenyan capital, Nairobi. The gang attacked St Joseph Chuka Catholic Church around midnight, local…
HARARE – Former vice president and now leader of the Zimbabwe People First (ZPF), Joice Mujuru, is finally hitting the campaign trail ahead of the much-anticipated 2018 national elections — beginning with a star rally scheduled for Stanley Square in Bulawayo on Saturday. Her buoyant spokesperson, Gift Nyandoro, told the Daily News yesterday that the…
HARARE – Several young Zimbabwean women, who were recently rescued after being trafficked to Kuwait where they worked as slaves, yesterday recounted their harrowing tales. The women, who could barely hold back their tears as they told of their trauma in the Persian Gulf country, narrated in horrifying detail how they had ended up as…
HARARE – Zimbabwe People First (ZPF) party has said Jim Kunaka cut short the counselling programmes he was going through in ZPF and has gone back to his old ways, a top official in former Vice President Joice Mujuru’s party has said. Commenting on Kunaka’s highly publicised return to Zanu PF, ZPF spokesperson, Jealousy Mawarire,…
HARARE – Zanu PF Bikita West legislator Munyaradzi Kereke, who is being accused of sexually molesting his wife’s two nieces, will receive judgment on the case on July 11, the presiding magistrate said yesterday. Kereke was standing trial for rape and indecent assault before Harare regional magistrate Noel Mupeiwa. Private prosecutor Charles Warara is expected…
