MUTARE – After having been a frozen hub for half a century, Mutare Museum has finally completed a revamp of one of its redundant galleries, Beit Gallery. National Museums and Monuments of Zimbabwe (NMMZ) took more than a year to complete the refurbishment that cost $35 000. The refurbishments got a $25 000 grant boost…
HARARE – Comedian Freddy “Kapfupi” Manjalima has collaborated with an upcoming Zimdancehall musician based in Epworth on the song, Kutenderera. Kapfupi told the Daily News that he feels obliged to help upcoming talent, hence his working with Mike “Whisper” Moyo on his song. “Yes, I collaborated with the young man as I want to help…
HARARE – Theatre in the Park is introducing a new programme ‘The Beauty of Zimbabwean Folklore Rhythm’ whose aim is to preserve and enhance the country’s melodramatic and theatrical forms. Zimbabwe is a multi-cultural country with a rich diverse, cultural heritage with lots of different traditional music genres from one ethnic group to another, each…
HARARE – True to the old Chinese proverb that the journey of a thousand miles begins with one step, Rodney Badza, a Chinhoyi University of Technology student, is carving his niche in the arts industry, following a successful exhibition that he hosted in Harare recently. The exhibition, which ran under the theme “Creator’s Palette” and…
PRETORIA – South African athlete Oscar Pistorius is a “broken” man, a defence witness has said at his sentencing hearing. He was convicted of murder at the end of last year for the 2013 murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. He faces a jail term of 15 years, but his sentence can be reduced due…
HARARE – Controversy continues to dog Rio Tinto’s disposal of its 78 percent shareholding in Murowa Diamonds, amid fresh claims that the mine was sold for a song under suspicious circumstances to a Virgin Islands-registered company, RZ Murowa Holdings, in contravention of Zimbabwe’s laws. When Murowa was disposed off last year, it was announced at…
HARARE – The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has configured the Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) system into a multi- currency platform set to include five currencies as it moves to mitigate against exchange control losses, it has emerged. An RTGS is an electronic money transfer for high value transactions where the transmission takes place…
HARARE – The Grain Marketing Board (GMB) has collected 35 000 metric tonnes (mt) of maize from local farmers as the country battles to plug a 2,5 million tonne cereal deficit, a Cabinet minister has said. Agriculture minister Joseph Made last week told the National Assembly that local farmers had since delivered 35 000mt to…
HARARE – The long-running feud between Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko and disaffected war veterans loyal to his embattled counterpart, VP Emmerson Mnangagwa, has now hit an all-time low, with one freedom fighter telling the Daily News yesterday that they were now “officially at war” with him. At the same time, other former freedom fighters who…
HARARE – Despite growing calls for him to step down in the wake of an unprecedented economic crisis characterised by cash shortages and his now visible frailties, President Robert Mugabe told his backers last week that he will soon launch his campaign for the 2018 presidential elections anytime from now. Addressing the Zanu PF central…
