HARARE – Zimbabwe’s school football should adopt a tracking system to ensure players who excel at age-grade tournaments are monitored, National Association for Secondary School Heads (Nash) president Johnson Madhuku has said. “As Nash we should have a database of such players and a tracking system to monitor the fruits of such sterling work,” Madhuku…
HARARE – American musician, author and academic Jennifer Kyker has released a book on the life and career of Zimbabwe’s music legend Oliver “Tuku” Mtukudzi. Titled Oliver Mtukudzi: Living Tuku Music in Zimbabwe, the 290-paged book was part of her doctoral research at the University of Pennsylvania which explored issues of audience reception in post-colonial…
HARARE – Gonzaga University Chamber Chorus, a choral ensemble from the United States of America, will hold three concerts in Zimbabwe as part of a performance-tour of southern Africa that will also take them to Zambia. The choir, made up of 28 members, will begin their exchange and performance tour of their repertoire Unclouded Day:…
HARARE – Several mbira musicians who include Bryn “Sekurutau” Mteki and Nyamasvisva and Maungira Enharira will share the stage tonight at the City Sports Bar. The gig, dubbed Afribbean Nights, will also feature Zvido Zvavanhu and the Traditional Dance Ensemble. City Sports Bar manager Mathias Bangure told the Daily News yesterday that the Afribbean Nights…
HARARE – The inaugural two-day Zimbabwe Culinary Fusion Expo, organised by the Zimbabwe Chefs Association, will begin tomorrow at Longcheng Plaza in Harare. Zimbabwe Chefs Association secretary-general Arther Masocha told the Daily News that the event would be largely a competition meant to showcase local culinary skills. “Winners will walk away with gold, silver and…
HARARE – Fly Africa Zimbabwe (Fly Africa) will resume operations next month after an 18-month hiatus following its acquisition by a local company, Mugwagwa Resources, the businessdaily has learnt. The airline’s executive chairperson Cassidy Mugwagwa said his company had so far invested $6,6 million into the carrier’s operations. “We are taking to the skies next…
HARARE – Leading mobile telecommunications firm Econet Wireless (Econet) has unveiled an engagement programme in an effort to capacitate its business partners. The company recently hosted a channel engagement and SMEs skills training forum in Seke, where about 200 of the mobile operator’s leading channel partners who service over 4 000 Econet brand ambassadors in…
HARARE – One of Zimbabwe’s largest supermarket groups, OK, says it spent close to $11 million on capital expenditure (Capex) in the year ended March 2017, as the retailer revamped and opened new branches. The group’s chief executive, Alex Siyavora, who took over from Willard Zireva, said the retailer had spent $10,9 million on expansion…
HARARE – Today was supposed to be a significant day for Zimbabwe and indeed for Africa as a whole in celebrating the continent’s uniqueness and dreams of its founding fathers, but that has not been the case. Most African governments have nothing to celebrate or be proud of on Africa Day as the continent’s political…
HARARE – The deepening rot at struggling flag carrier, Air Zimbabwe, is said to have triggered serious safety concerns among security chiefs and brawling Zanu PF bigwigs — who are worried about the safety and security of the hired planes that President Robert Mugabe now regularly uses for his official travels. This comes as the…
