HARARE – Zimbabwe’s telecoms regulator has said mobile money has tumbled by 35 percent, with cash shortages slowing a race that has seen mobile phones turn into bank books for the “unbanked” to store cash, manage their accounts, make purchases and send and receive money. The Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) said…
HARARE – Los Angeles-based Zimbabwean music producers, “T-Collar” Sibanda and Philip “Pip” Kembo, co-produced a soundtrack for the upcoming American action film, “The Fate of the Furious.” The song titled “Hey Ma,” which has an English and Spanish version, was sung by Pitbull, J Balvin and Camila Cabello. T-Collar, who co-produced Rita Ora and Chris…
HARARE – Kambo Boys, a United Kingdom-based band determined to add an international flavour to sungura music, has come up with a new track titled Sweet Larrisa. The song recorded at Mono Mukundu’s Monolio Studios, Hator Bros Entertainment, Ray B Studios and Kambo Studios, is a follow-up to the UK-based group’s debut single, “Melo,” which…
HARARE – Rising star Andy Muridzo has conceded that his decision to go toe to toe with controversial dancer Beverly “Bev” Sibanda after she publicly claimed she was carrying his child was ill-advised. After the Sexy Angels’ leader shocked the nation with the news at the end of January, the Dherira hit-maker’s initial reaction was…
HARARE – Hollywood actress Danai Gurira’s latest play titled “Familiar” has attracted a fair share of interest on the theatre circuit in the United States of America. It is about a Zimbabwean family based in Minnesota which is preparing for the wedding of their eldest daughter, a first-generation American. The bride’s insistence on observing a…
BULAWAYO – Prominent fashion designer Yvette Marguax Ndaba, 37, says only resilient and relevant fashion designers can make it in Zimbabwe’s challenging economic environment. The award-winning designer conceded in an interview with the Daily News on Sunday that she has come close to throwing in the towel several times. “Every day the thought runs through…
HARARE – Disgruntled war veterans were weighing up their options last night after panicking authorities banned their planned get-together in Harare tomorrow — a move they say is meant to pressure them to ditch their withering criticism of President Robert Mugabe as Zanu PF’s ugly succession wars intensify. This comes after police revealed yesterday that…
HARARE – Thousands of newly-born babies face significant health risks after it emerged that the Bacillus Calmette–Guérin (BCG) vaccine, which prevents infants from contracting tuberculosis (TB), is now also in short supply. Although authorities denied yesterday that there was a major BCG crisis in the country, so dire is the situation that some public hospitals…
HARARE – Zimbabwe People First (ZPF) elders — Didymus Mutasa and Rugare Gumbo — have slapped former ally Joice Mujuru with a $5 million suit following her claims that the duo wanted to bed her. The two had demanded that the newly-formed National People’s Party leader retracts her statements and publicly apologises or they sue,…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s Constitutional Court (Con-Court) is grappling with a legal vacuum because it does not have a quorum of at least nine judges, as required by the Constitution, to hear a contentious challenge to the selection process of a new Chief Justice (CJ). The crisis was precipitated by University of Zimbabwe law student Romeo…
