HARARE – Zimdancehall legend Winky D and Zim hip-hop star Tehn Diamond will perform in Masvingo today and tomorrow respectively in what promises to be fun-packed shows for music fans in Zimbabwe’s oldest town. Winky D, who is also set to perform at Pagomba in Cafe Beitbridge tomorrow night, will kick-start the Masvingo party tonight…
HARARE – The Harare City Council is ready to give arts centre Moto Republic, which was last week threatened with demolition, the opportunity to regularise its papers. “We have since invited the owners of the property for a discussion on the conditions which they should meet for council to regularise the structure. The land use…
HARARE – Mbira princess Hope Masike will honour female musicians who have popularised the ancient music instrument at Jazz 24/7 in Harare tonight. In the show dubbed Gwenyambirakadzi Concert, Masike will present her own songs after which she will perform some of her favourite songs from great women who made mbira instrument fashionable, including the…
HARARE – The Zanu PF faction rallying behind Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s mooted presidential aspirations has vowed to crush moves by the party enemies of the Midlands godfather to impose their candidate to lead the key, but volatile province of Masvingo. This comes after the Zanu PF politburo surprisingly ordered the province on Wednesday to…
HARARE – Activist clergyman Patrick Phillip Mugadza has challenged the government to build special “conjugal rights cottages” in jails to allow prisoners to enjoy intimacy with their partners. The unorthodox Remnant Church pastor, who earlier this year made a controversial “prophecy” which claimed that President Robert Mugabe would die later this year, has just spent…
HARARE – Litigants are now able to attach government property over debts after the High Court invalidated the State Liabilities Act, which it said was being used by the authorities to evade paying its dues. The March 15, landmark ruling was handed down after Mutare businessman Tendai Blessing Mangwiro — through his lawyer Tawanda Zhuwarara…
HARARE – The Health ministry has issued a cholera outbreak alert after two people died while two others are being treated of the disease in Manicaland and Masvingo provinces. The highly communicable disease is believed to have spread from neighbouring Mozambique, where a cholera epidemic — infecting more than 1 000 people — was triggered…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s inflation has moved into positive territory for the first time in two years as a result of depreciating value in bond notes, a leading think-tank said yesterday. Cape Town-based NKC African Economics said consumers were absorbing the increase in prices of goods and services as the surrogate currency has lost 30 percent…
HARARE – Businessman Timothy Trombas has been dragged to court by his ex-wife on charges of criminal trespass after reportedly visiting their children at Nicola Audrey Foote’s residence without the woman’s permission. With the matter due to be heard by Harare magistrate Victoria Mashamba yesterday — on a day the under-fire social counsellor was also to…
HARARE – Evan Mawarire yesterday demanded that the State furnish him with a trial date or remove him from remand, but the application was dismissed. Mawarire, whose independent social media movement #ThisFlag, catalysed citizens’ frustration with President Robert Mugabe regime during last year’s protests against the government’s inaction against corruption, impunity and poverty, faces a…
