HARARE – Farai Jere is one of the most prominent business people in Zimbabwe today with interests in shipping and forwarding as well as energy, and yet he remains a very humble character who mixes and mingles well with virtually everyone. I met Jere 12 years ago when he was one of the top officials…
HARARE – Rising artiste Bryan K has ventured into uncharted territory with his single titled Ndopenga. The new single, which features Zimdancehall star Dobba Don, was produced by Mr Kamera, an acclaimed South Africa-based Zimbabwean music producer. Ndopenga, the rising artiste’s first single this year, is not a typical Bryan K one both in terms…
HARARE – Plans by the Local Government ministry to set up urban tollgates will surely face stiff resistance from Zimbabweans who are reeling from the effects of myriad challenges. Local Government minister Saviour Kasukuwere recently announced that the construction of plazas for use in the project will go ahead. Transport minister Jorum Gumbo had earlier…
HARARE – Powerful First Lady Grace Mugabe is at the centre of the warring Zanu PF’s latest factional and succession inferno, which is threatening anew the future of the troubled former liberation movement. Consistently-reliable Zanu PF sources told the Daily News on Sunday yesterday that President Robert Mugabe’s influential wife was “most unhappy” with embattled…
HARARE – As the watershed 2018 national polls beckon, President Robert Mugabe’s warring ruling Zanu PF is in a big quandary about what to say on account of its dismal failure to deliver on any of its 2013 election promises. Among the promises that are coming back to bite Zanu PF are its utopian pledges…
HARARE – A University of Zimbabwe (UZ) student, Emmanuel Tsuro, who was on attachment at Premier Service Medical Investments (PSMI) on Friday died from severe burns suffered after a fire erupted when he was conducting a procedure at the company’s laboratory in Harare, the Daily News on Sunday has been told. PSMI yesterday confirmed the…
HARARE – The prospects for free and fair elections in Zimbabwe next year are remote without some concrete actions now to make that possible, including significant international involvement, a leading think-tank has said. Cape Town-based NKC African Economics said it is not just the potential for rigging that is a concern but the state of…
HARARE – Takura Chinguwo from Chingwizi holding camp in Mwenezi is fighting not only a war against a strain of drug-resistant TB, but also a battle to obtain a strictly regulated new medicine that could save his life. In February 2014 after the immense Tokwe-Mukorsi Dam basin flooded following heavy rains, Chinguwo was among 20…
HARARE – Our news editor Gift Phiri talks to chairperson of Parliament’s Legal and Procedural Affairs Committee, Kuwadzana East MP and opposition MDC vice president Nelson Chamisa. Below are excerpts of the interview. Q: You have stirred controversy by reportedly demanding a hike in MP salaries from about $2 000 to $10 000 at a…
HARARE – The entire Manyame River — providing water to more than 3 million Harare residents is contaminated, a top official has warned. Upper Manyame Sub-Catchment Council (UMSCC) compliance assistant Susan Nyarugwe told commemorations of the UN World Water Day hosted by Wildlife and Environment Zimbabwe (Wez) on Wednesday that Manyame — which connects to…
