HARARE – Revived Chazezesa Challengers is set to launch an album titled Smoko Revival Zvachose next month. The group comprises former Alick Macheso guitarist Lucky Mumiriki, Lee Roy Lunga and the late System Tazvida’s young brother Isaac. Songs making the Jabulani Ndlovu-produced album are Edza Zvimwe, Usaore Mwoyo, Ihama Yako, Ndiudze Ndiudze, Wongorora and Kuita…
HARARE – As mystery continues to surround the death of liberation war icon General Solomon Mujuru in an inferno at his Beatrice farm in 2011, his widow and former vice president, Joice Mujuru, (pictured) has once again suggested that he may have been killed by the couple’s Zanu PF enemies to pave way for her…
HARARE – Suspended Fidelity Life Assurance (Fidelity) managing director Simon Chapereka has died. Chapereka, who was appointed head of the listed and diversified group in April 2003 before his inglorious fall in April this year following an Insurance and Pensions Commission probe into various corporate governance infractions, is said to have collapsed and died yesterday…
HARARE – Struggling wood producer, Border Timbers, said it is targeting new markets in Africa to hedge itself against the harsh economic environment prevalent in the country. The company’s judicial manager, Peter Bailey, said Border Timbers, whose loses widened to $24 million in the full year to June 2016 from $4 million in the previous…
HARARE – America insurance firm, Blue Marble Microinsurance (Blue Marble), is set to launch its first venture in Zimbabwe later this month. The company —a consortium of eight companies established in 2015 with the aim of creating a market for micro insurance —said it will provide drought protection to smallholder maize farmers in the southern…
HARARE – Recent revelations that mining communities such as Umzingwane and tertiary institutions are fuelling the spread of HIV/Aids makes a sad reading against all the efforts being put by various stakeholders in fighting the scourge. For the past two decades, Zimbabwe made significant strides in reducing new HIV infections and was slowly becoming a…
HARARE – The indigenisation policy, which has been largely blamed for scaring away investors, has exposed government’s confusion and inconsistencies, as President Robert Mugabe last week tasked parliamentarians to amend the law. The flawed and controversial law has been prone to misinterpretations, with Cabinet ministers routinely at each other’s throats, disagreeing on how to interpret…
HARARE – September 29 made a mark in Zimbabwe’s history as University of Zimbabwe(UZ) graduands literally spat in President Robert Mugabe’s face by expressing their displeasure at the escalating rate of unemployment the country has had to endure during his close to four decades at the helm. One would want to imagine that the reality…
HARARE – A defiant Higher Education minister, Jonathan Moyo, yesterday came out swinging, belting his Zanu PF foes and launching a passionate defence of his decision to approve a request for bicycles and three-wheeler motorbikes for community leaders in his Tsholotsho North constituency. Speaking publicly for the first time about the multiple corruption and fraud…
HARARE – As the ugly Zanu PF dust-up over the corruption probe against Higher Education minister Jonathan Moyo (pictured) and his deputy Godfrey Gandawa hots up, the MDC has joined the brawl calling for the arrest of the Tsholotsho North MP. This comes as the two Zanu PF factions, which are going at each other…
