HARARE – Losing to minnows Afghanistan will always hurt but burying heads in shame will only do Zimbabwe Cricket (ZC) more harm than good. Instead, ZC has to embrace the friendly advice from the visiting Asian side’s coach Lalchand Rajput which he provided on a silvers platter on the eve of the ongoing ODI series…
HARARE – Just like they did last year, music stars Winky D and Jah Prayzah took home two National Arts Merit Awards (Nama) gongs apiece on Saturday night at 7 Arts Theatre in Harare. Serial award-winner Jah Prayzah landed the Outstanding Song Award for the hit Mdhara Vachauya in addition to retaining the Outstanding Male…
HARARE – Music superstar Oliver Mtukudzi, Alick Macheso, Jah Prayzah, Suluman Chimbetu and Winky D are part of scores of artistes who have been invited to grace the first anniversary of the City Sports Bar Monday Jam Session tonight The Jam Session, which takes place every Monday at the Harare entertainment venue, brings together guitarists,…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Asset Management Corporation (Zamco) has started acquiring bad loans secured by mortgage bonds, after assuming non-performing loans (NPLs) close to $1 billion in 2016. A non-performing loan, according to the International Monetary Fund, is a credit that has not been repaid and is in default or close to being in default….
HARARE – There is gnashing of teeth among Zanu PF’s bigwigs hoping to succeed President Robert Mugabe, after the country’s long-ruling leader said pointedly that Zimbabweans did not feel that there was a worthy and acceptable candidate among them to take over from him. Speaking in his choreographed annual interview with ZBC last week, ahead…
BUHERA – President Robert Mugabe’s wife, Grace, has said Zimbabweans must stop eating maize — the country’s staple food — claiming the grain is stock feed unfit for human consumption. Officially opening a girls’ dormitory named after her at Hande High School in Buhera, just a few kilometres from where she had curiously donated maize…
HARARE – The Kariba church of incarcerated “Mugabe-must-go” cleric, Phillip Mugadza, has disintegrated — with his fearful congregants moving to other churches as the activist clergyman continues to languish in remand prison in Harare. In a heart-rending case which has received significant publicity locally and abroad, Mugadza has been kept in jail ever since he…
HARARE – Nurses are apparently standing in for striking doctors, as health institutions attempt to ease the impact of the industrial action, now in its second week. During a visit by Daily News to Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals (Parirenyatwa) — Zimbabwe’s largest referral hospital — to assess activity on the back of the strike, it…
HARARE – Zimbabweans were yesterday shocked by new threats from Zanu PF Harare provincial political commissar Shadreck Mashayamombe to expel all Indian nationals from Zimbabwe. The threats were accompanied by the kind of worrying rhetoric which threatens to place the ruling party in the same league as Ugandan dictator Idi Amin who hounded out the…
HARARE – Disgruntled Christopher Mutsvangwa-led war veterans are planning to hold a national indaba ahead of the 2018 presidential elections. Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA) spokesperson Douglas Mahiya told the Daily News that following a national executive meeting held in Harare last week, they resolved to convene the grand indaba together with all…
