HARARE – Respected author and expatriate lawyer Petina Gappah — whose latest book titled Rotten Row gives a gripping rendition of everyday life in crisis-torn Zimbabwe — has said the southern African country is on the verge of change. In a recent interview with the BBC, the award-winning writer, whose short story anthology has received…
HARARE – Hard-pressed Harare City Council (HCC) has begun temporarily regularising illegal home industries and vending points across the city, in a desperate bid to collect revenue. This comes after the local authority — facing dwindling revenue as residents struggle to pay rates — also enacted a new by-law that regularises tuck shops and requires…
HARARE – The rains that have drenched most parts of the country lately are set to slightly lessen, the Meteorological Services Department (Met) said. This comes as the country is expected to experience La Nina — a climatic condition characterised by above normal rains — in the 2016/17 season. Met said while there are chances…
HARARE – Norton’s independent MP Temba Mliswa has said he does not need to use MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai’s popularity to lure people to his rallies. The former Zanu PF official and staunch President Robert Mugabe supporter said he is a “brand on his own”. Responding to claims that Tsvangirai ordered his members not to…
HARARE – The number of vehicles passing through tollgates has significantly declined, as motorists increasingly opt for “lift clubs” in an attempt to avoid toll fees, an operator with the road funds collection facilities said. Joseph Mafanuke, country operations manager of Intertoll — a company contracted to manage nine of Zimbabwe’s 26 tollgates — made…
HARARE – Reports that top Zanu PF and army officials have been leading the looting of the State-sponsored $500 million Command Agriculture inputs are very worrying, given Zimbabwe’s history of another plundered agricultural fund — the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ)-run Farm Mechanisation scheme. The revelations, carried in yesterday’s edition of the Daily News, were…
EDITOR — It has become a trend in Zimbabwe during the festive season that on our highways there many roadblocks that are meant to ensure public safety. Recently, I travelled by road from Harare to Murambinda, Chivhu and Harare and, as expected, I found many roadblocks on my way, but to my surprise I noticed…
HARARE – In the past footballers were well-known for their love for fast cars, beautiful women, booze, smoking and partying until the wee hours in nightclubs. There is no perfect example of this stereotype of footballers than the late Manchester United legend George Best. At the peak of his career in the 60s, Best would…
BULAWAYO – Inspired by Zimdancehall star Winky D’s flawless performance at the Homecoming Kalawa gig last week, self-proclaimed Zim Hip Hop king Cal_Vin was left convinced that a collaboration with the Disappear hit-maker would spread his wings wider. Cal_Vin, who was born Calvin Mgcini Nhliziyo 29 years ago, told the Daily News that plans for…
HARARE – When Zora music star Leonard Zhakata scooped the top Coca-Cola accolades in 2015 with songs Dhonza Makomborero and Dollar Boy from his album Zvangu Zvaita there were a lot of doubters but the diminutive singer has done it again by topping both the Radio Zimbabwe Coca-Cola Top 50 and National FM charts for…
