HARARE – Music superstar Oliver “Tuku” Mtukudzi has lined up a series of monthly shows with different artistes as a build-up to a mega bash to mark his 65th birthday set for Pakare Paye Arts Centre on September 22. The monthly celebratory concerts will begin on Saturday at Pakare Paye where Tuku will share the…
HARARE – Ex-Big Brother Africa (BBA) star Jerome “JJ” Arab is expecting a child with top Zambian songtress Namvula Rennie. A delighted JJ, who represented Zimbabwe in the 2014 edition of BBA, posted a video on Instagram and Facebook of the first baby scan with the caption: “I am so excited and thank you God…
HARARE – Warriors coach Kalisto Pasuwa is not throwing in the towel yet and is confident his side can beat Tunisia this evening and qualify for the quarter-finals of the Africa Cup of Nations. Zimbabwe take on the Carthage Eagles tonight at the Stade de L’Amitie in the Gabon capital Libreville at 9pm. The Warriors…
HARARE – Dynamos have retained the services of coach Lloyd Mutasa, despite a number of stakeholders feeling he would not be up to the task. Mutasa’s stock had hit rock bottom following a lukewarm season which saw the Harare giants finish the season in a distant fifth place. The Dynamos executive met at yesterday’s Annual…
BANJUL – Officials in Equatorial Guinea refused to comment on Sunday on whether ousted former Gambian leader Yahya Jammeh had arrived in the country. But in a statement, Equatorial Guinea’s opposition denounced the presence of Jammeh, whose 22-year reign was marked by systematic human rights abuses, on their soil. Jammeh slinked off in the dead…
HARARE – Analysts, civil society groups and the opposition were united in condemning the conduct of President Robert Mugabe’s ruling Zanu PF in the Bikita West by-election which was held yesterday, saying this did not bode well for the looming 2018 national elections. Speaking to the Daily News on Sunday yesterday, they said the warring…
BIKITA – Villagers in Bikita who spoke to the Daily News on Sunday yesterday recounted horror stories of thuggery and intimidation by Zanu PF apparatchiks. They said the sum total of the anti-democratic behaviour was to force them, as allegedly directed “from above”, to vote for the ruling party. Many of the visibly-shaken villagers said…
HARARE – Buying school supplies for the new curriculum has become costly as well as confusing. Many parents wonder if some of the supplies — including expensive coloured and plain bond paper, traditional percussion instruments such as pianos and mbiras, Pritt, sticky-stuff, more exercise books, mini laptops, display files, more boxes of crayons and several other…
HARARE – Human rights lawyers have squarely blamed investigators for their faulty police work, accusing them of investigative amnesia and guilty omissions, which led to the absence of solid cases in the courts against pro-democracy campaigners. More than 100 Zimbabweans will in January stand trial on various charges related to staging protests against President Robert…
HARARE – Morgan Tsvangirai’s opposition MDC has accused President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF of milking dry Zimbabwe’s parastatals to fund ruling party operations. This comes as Mugabe’s ruling Zanu PF on Friday took delivery of 320 vehicles, as the party escalates preparations for 2018 election campaign. At least 45 samples of the vehicles were presented…
