HARARE – Controversial businessman Frank Buyanga has renewed his calls for an economic surveillance and monitoring unit under the President’s Office to instil confidence, and a sense of discipline among Zimbabwe’s parastatals, as the country hankers for the much-needed recovery. This also comes as Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa has said “no one is above the…
HARARE – Protest artiste and fierce anti-President Robert Mugabe campaigner, Sylvanos Mudzvova, yesterday staged a one-man demonstration at Parliament against government’s silence concerning corruption, abductions and human rights violations. Spotting a helmet, prison garb, handcuffs and leg irons, Mudzvova presented his new theatre play titled Silenced in front of the Parliament building. The act comes…
HARARE – Four suspects who were reportedly caught attempting to bomb Alpha Omega Dairies yesterday applied for refusal of further remand, accusing the State of infringing on their right to be tried within a reasonable period of time. Jailed president of the Zimbabwe People’s Front political party, 34-year-old Owen Kuchata, Zimbabwe National Army corporals —…
HARARE – Opposition MPs led by MDC vice president Nelson Chamisa, have moved a motion to have government support the spouse and children of missing journalist-cum-activist Itai Dzamara who was abducted in Harare more than a year ago. In addition, the legislators also want Home Affairs minister Ignatius Chombo to investigate alleged acts of police…
MUTARE – Quest Motors (Quest)’s assembling plant is facing operational challenges due to central bank’s failure to approve their payments to its Japanese and Chinese kit suppliers for over eight months, the Daily News has learnt. The company’s operations manager, Carl Fernandez, said the situation was now “critical”. “We have been facing serious problems with…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s $3,3 billion stock market is up 22 percent this month, more than any of the 94 equity indexes tracked by Bloomberg globally. Zimbabweans are piling into equities to preserve their wealth as the government plans to introduce a pseudo-currency called bond notes, stirring memories of the hyperinflation that plagued the southern African…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s tobacco export earnings rose by nearly 10 percent to $518 million in the seven months to October on higher prices and demand from China. Tobacco is the country’s single largest export commodity, ahead of platinum and gold. Statistics released by the Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board (TIMB) yesterday showed that cigarette makers…
SEVERAL leading Zimbabwean gospel and secular artistes alike have paid tribute to female singer Joyce Simeti who died in Harare on Tuesday at Arcadia Medical Centre. According to the late musician’s husband, Stanley Simeti, the popular musician passed away aged 42, three years after being diagnosed with an auto immune disorder. Leading the overflow of…
HARARE – Guardian First Book Award winner Petina Gappah has launched a collection of short stories which she titled Rotten Row after the Harare road on which the Magistrate’s Courts are located. Gappah, who was longlisted for this year’s Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award and for the 2016 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction, confirmed…
TONIGHT’s State of the Nation play titled Handeitione at Harare’s Theatre in the Park turns the spotlight on what has been termed Zimbabwe’s biggest ‘‘national security threat’’ — corruption. The showcase comes at a time the military has also weighed in on the rampant corruption by top government officials who have been implicated and nothing…
