HARARE – Hollywood-based Zimbabwean actress Danai Gurira has reflected back on the year 2016, saying it has been the best year of her career. Gurira took to Instagram to express what she deemed “Things I must give thanks for as I say goodbye to 2016.” “My play Eclipsed going up on Broadway and breaking a…
HARARE – Despite having less than two weeks to prepare for Miss Tourism International, Miss Tourism Zimbabwe Ashley Morgen made it into the Top 10. Morgen left for Malaysia on December 12 for the finals, which took place on New Year’s Eve. “Congratulations to the five winners and to all the finalists; it takes courage,…
HARARE – Muchaneta co-director Michael Zemura, says Muchaneta, the situational comedy which explores various relationship themes in a ghetto setting, will unleash “more chaos and humour” when the third season of the drama comes to ZBC-TV at the end of January. The situational comedy features a cast which includes Kessia Masona (Muchaneta), Admire “Bhutisi” Kuzhangaira…
HARARE – Award-winning writer Petina Gappah, who launched her latest and third book “Rotten Row” a month ago, plans to plans to join the Zimbabwean civil service after an imminent year-long writing fellowship in Berlin, Germany. Gappah, a respected international lawyer, is keen to help Zimbabwe negotiate trade deals with the international community. “I am…
HARARE – Clearly emboldened by the apparent collapse of the centre in President Robert Mugabe’s warring Zanu PF, angry war veterans are piling on the pressure on the increasingly frail nonagenarian, with their leaders now sensationally describing the 92-year-old as the “enemy of the people”. This comes as the disaffected war veterans, who have been…
HARARE – Former Vice President Joice Mujuru’s Zimbabwe People First (ZPF) says it has already grown bigger than President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF, which is riven by deadly and seemingly unstoppable tribal, factional and succession wars. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, the party’s spokesperson Jealousy Mawarire said ZPF had grown “in leaps and bounds”…
HARARE – Mutare businessman Tendai Blessing Mangwiro — who is frantically fighting to recover his money confiscated by police following his arrest on theft charges in 2008 — has dragged Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa to the High Court seeking an order to compel the Treasury chief to release the funds. Mangwiro has won several court…
BULAWAYO – Pressure group Tajamuka/Sesijikile has appealed to Sadc and the United Nations (UN) to intervene in the deepening Zimbabwe crisis before the situation deteriorates into turmoil ahead of the 2018 elections. The fierce anti-President Robert Mugabe grouping said a timely intervention by the bodies is crucial and urgently needed. “UN and Sadc must bring the…
HARARE – Water from boreholes in Harare must be tested as it could be contaminated, Health minister David Parirenyatwa warned. This comes as a typhoid outbreak has hit the high density suburb of Mbare and has so far claimed two lives while many others are being treated after drinking water from a contaminated borehole. Parirenyatwa…
BULAWAYO – The Morgan Tsvangirai-led MDC has slammed former National Healing minister Moses Mzila-Ndlovu over his plans to form a political party, arguing the move is retrogressive and meant to divide people on regional basis. Recently, Mzila-Ndlovu announced that he will soon launch his party to be known as Alliance for National Salvation (Ansa). He…
