HARARE – Zimdancehall artiste Winky D, popularly known as Ninja President, is plotting another coup before year-end as he puts final touches to his 2016 studio album. Last year, Winky D’s song Disappear off the project Kickstape (Gafa Life), released end of 2015, was controversially awarded the song of the year gong ahead of people’s…
HARARE – Superstar Oliver “Tuku” Mtukudzi will be unveiling a new album Ehe Kani Nhai Yahweh this month in Norton. The album will be launched on September 22 at his multi-million dollar Pakare Paye Arts Centre, situated 40 kilometres away from the capital. Mtukudzi’s manager Sam Mataure confirmed the development. “The September 22 event will…
HARARE – Former Harare mayor Muchadeyi Masunda (pictured) is resigning from Zimbabwe’s largest platinum miner, Zimplats, where he has been a director for the past nine years. The prominent barrister was appointed as a director of the platinum producer in 2007. He was subsequently appointed as deputy chairman of the board with effect from March…
HARARE – The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has paid millions of dollars to 472 of its former employees who lost their jobs in a retrenchment exercise carried out by the bank five years ago. “Payments of outstanding 2011 retrenchment package were finalised during the year, save for deceased members who could not submit certificates…
HARARE – Prophetic Healing and Deliverance (PHD) Ministries founder Walter Magaya opened the church’s multi-million-dollar Yadah Village in the Prospect area of Waterfalls, Harare. Magaya said what has been happening in his life has challenged him to transform the lives of his congregants. “Kana ndakambopihwa shungu dzokuchinja hupenyu hwako (If ever I got challenged to transform…
HARARE – The wife of United Family International Church (UFIC) Emmanuel Makandiwa — Ruth — yesterday hosted her birthday celebrations with over 400 orphans at a local hotel in Harare. Celebrations were held under the church’s charity arm — Agape Family Care — which over the years has extended a helping hand to hundreds of…
HARARE – A Harare man has made no apologies for abusing Bron Cleer cough syrup —popularly known as bronco — and dagga, insisting he either uses the illegal substances to perform his manual jobs or he starves to death. Pesenai Zembeti, a brick layer by profession, pleaded guilty when he appeared before Harare magistrate Tendai…
HARARE – The United States of America and Mauritius have stopped importing Zimbabwean tobacco over escalating human rights abuses, sources say. Latest statistics from the Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board (Timb) indicate that the two countries — among Zimbabwe’s top 10 tobacco export destinations and who imported a combined $11,7 million of the golden leaf…
HARARE – Ordinary Zimbabweans, analysts and opposition parties say the move by President Robert Mugabe’s government this week to ban all demonstrations in Harare show clearly that the ruling Zanu PF is in “serious panic” and that much-needed change is around the corner. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, all the interviewees said the jittery…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) has written to Caf to try and change the Warriors’ 2017 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Guinea from tomorrow to Monday. Zifa failed to secure flights in time to arrive in Conakry to catch Sunday’s 7pm kick-off after securing funds to finance the trip late yesterday afternoon…
