HARARE – Zimbabwe is expected to miss its six million carat 2016 diamond output projection by 58 percent following Mines minister Walter Chidakwa’s decision to boot out all, but two, of the country’s diamond miners, it has emerged. Chamber of Mines Zimbabwe president Toi Muganyi yesterday told a mining output meeting in the capital that…
HARARE – Dendera music star Suluman Chimbetu and his Orchestra Dendera Kings will begin a tour of Midlands province tonight with a gig at Junior Sports Bar in Gokwe before heading to the Midlands Hotel in Gweru tomorrow night. After the two gigs in Midlands, the Sean Timba singer will return to Harare on Sunday…
HARARE – The annual Chibuku Neshamwari Traditional Dance Festival, which features 10 provincial champions, will explode at Bulawayo’s White City Stadium tomorrow. This year’s edition has been spiced up by the increase of the first prize from $4 000 to $7 000, the second prize from $3 000 to $5 000 while the third prize…
HARARE – Music stars Alexio Kawara, Pah Chihera, Thembalami and Zimpraise will perform at the Diana Mugadza Kidney Transplant Fundraising Concert to be hosted by Dzivaresekwa Methodist Church in Zimbabwe tomorrow. The fundraising concert, which will run between 9am and 6pm,is part of efforts to raise over $30 000 for Mugadza to undergo a kidney…
LUSAKA – Zambia President Edgar Lunga has warned the opposition UPND not to cause trouble after the country’s elections next month, the Lusaka Times reported on Thursday. He claimed he was aware of the United Party for National Development’s plans to cause trouble and would not allow this as long as he remained president of…
HILLARY Clinton on Thursday claimed her place in history as she became the first woman presidential nominee of a major US party, promising economic opportunity for all and rejecting Donald Trump’s dark picture of America. The former secretary of state, her hand on her heart, received ecstatic cheers from thousands of delegates as she strode…
HARARE – Yesterday’s meeting in Harare between President Robert Mugabe and Zanu PF supporters, including a faction of war veterans, presented yet another plum opportunity for the ruling party enemies of Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa to embarrass and beat down the embattled Midlands godfather and his allies. As had been accurately predicted and reported on…
HARARE – Embattled President Robert Mugabe yesterday risked derailing normalising relations with western governments when he threatened them in a public rant in which he also sent a chilling warning to popular clergyman — Evan Mawarire — who has sought refuge in neighbouring South Africa. Mugabe was addressing bussed supporters who included villagers and youths…
HARARE – Highlanders coach Erol Akbay lamented Bosso’s failure to beat Triangle in a Castle Lager Premiership match at Barbourfields Stadium which blew their chance of returning to the top of the log. Bosso went into yesterday’s re-arranged match three points behind log leaders FC Platinum and the brief was very clear; beat Triangle and…
HARARE – Zimbabwe end their two-year sabbatical in the longer format when they host New Zealand in the first Test match at Bulawayo’s Queens Sports Club in search of an elusive maiden victory against the Black Caps. The locals’ last dance in Test cricket was in 2014 where they fared dismally against the Tigers of…
