HARARE – Kenya Airways has set its eyes on the Victoria Falls route as the regional airline expands its footprint across the continent. The latest development comes following the completion of Victoria Falls International Airport’s multi-million dollar facelift and expansion. The airport’s runway was expanded to four kilometres from 1,5 kilometres, allowing it to accommodate…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s tobacco auction floors will open next month, with government hoping earnings from the crop will solve the country’s dollar crunch. Tobacco is the country’s major foreign currency earner after it raked in nearly $1 billion last year in export receipts ahead of platinum and gold. The Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board (TIMB)…
HARARE – Bigtime Strategic Group — the main sponsor of Miss Tourism Zimbabwe 2016 — has accused some “corrupt” models of trying to create a rift between him and the pageant’s patron Barbara Mzembi. Justice Maphosa, the director of the South Africa-headquartered company, blamed the confusion rocking the pageant on models trying to “extort money”….
MUTARE – Runn Family lead vocalist and veteran music producer Peter Muparutsa, once described by music critic Fred Zindi as Zimbabwe’s best vocalist, has attributed his wavy voice to many years of “doing covers of classical music”. “I spent many years doing western music which made use of the wavy voice and I then adopted…
HARARE – Music star Jah Prayzah is well-placed to once again reign supreme at the National Arts Merit Awards (Nama) to be held at the 7 Arts Theatre in Avondale, Harare tonight. Last year, the Watora Mari singer was the joint biggest Nama winner. He landed two Nama gongs along with Zimdancehall star Winky D…
HARARE – Ngezi Platinum Stars coach Tonderai Ndiraya is confident his side will reach the first round of the African Confederation Cup by defeating Pamplemousses in the second leg today. The two teams clash this afternoon at the National Sports Stadium with the tie evenly balanced after the 1-1 draw in the first leg in…
HARARE – Harare giants Dynamos, who are scheduled to leave the country today for Mozambique to intensify their pre-season preparations, are set to appoint former Triangle coach Biggie Zuze as Lloyd Mutasa’s assistant coach, the Daily News can reveal. Zuze, whose contract with Triangle expired at the end of last season, is expected to become…
HARARE – Karting driver Zachary Dufty will hope his idols good charm rubs off on him when he contests in the South African JuniorMax today. Dufty will compete today at Zwartkops International Kart Raceway and a week later on February 25 in the new CIK-FIA Academy Trophy at Vereeniging karting circuit [GoogleAd] He will hope…
HARARE – Zanu PF bigwigs say President Robert Mugabe was at his “foxy” best during Wednesday’s heated politburo meeting in Harare — running rings around the ruling party’s two warring factions and apparently leaving both camps “thoroughly confused”. Well-placed sources who spoke to the Daily News yesterday said the wily nonagenarian cunningly contrived to lose…
HARARE – There is no solution in sight to the standoff between striking doctors and the government, despite the crass threats of dismissals by panicking authorities. The doctors have been on industrial action since Wednesday, to press the government to honour its promises of improving their working conditions. But stung by the strike, the government…
