HARARE – As the 2018 watershed elections loom in the country, public broadcaster Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) which enjoys a monopoly on the local airwaves has come under the spotlight as opposition political parties fight for the space currently dominated by the ruling Zanu PF. Media practitioners, election and political observers interviewed by the Daily…
HARARE – Gallery Delta will host an exhibition of paintings, graphics and three-dimensional object sculptures by young and promising artists on Wednesday. The exhibition dubbed — Link III: Different Viewpoints Exhibition — will showcase works by Epheas Maposa, Kresiah Mkwazhi, Option Nyahunzvi, Evans Tinashe and Johnson Zuze whose masterpiece “The Dog and the Bone” landed…
HARARE – The fight to control and succeed mysterious prophet Madzibaba Wimbo is hotting up, with police commissioner general Augustine Chihuri — who is a brother to the revered diviner — now being accused of playing “a negative role” in the deepening saga. Wimbo — the head of the Mount Darwin-based Johane Masowe Vadzidzi Vajesu…
HARARE – As the country’s economy continues to die, and cash shortages worsen, the debate on the need or otherwise for Zimbabwe to embrace the South African rand as the country’s anchor currency is gathering momentum. This comes as the Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries (CZI) encouraged the government at the weekend to enact a law…
HARARE – The trial of a driver of a South Africa-registered haulage truck that crashed with a bus at Nyamatikiti River near Chaka in Chirumhanzu on April 5, killing dozens of passengers, will commence on Thursday. Regis Mungwari, 29 — a driver of Transmech Logistics, a South Africa-registered haulage truck — has been charged with…
HARARE – The body of ex-Namibian Chief Justice Simpson Mutambanengwe — who passed on in Windhoek on May 10 — is expected to leave by plane tomorrow, officials said. Mutambanengwe’s body will be flown to Harare for burial after his death at Paramount Hospital in Windhoek due to renal failure, according to Justice Rita Makarau,…
HARARE – The downward review of charges on plastic money and electronic transactions will promote usage of e-channels by lowering transaction costs, economic analysts said yesterday. This comes after Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor John Mangundya last week said he was working on a raft of measures to promote the enhanced use of plastic and…
HARARE – Zimbabwe has launched a new treatment for malaria, marking the latest step in a program to stem growing resistance to older treatments such as chloroquine. This comes as multidrug-resistant malaria superbugs have taken hold in parts of Zimbabwe, threatening to undermine progress against the disease. Health and Child Care minister David Parirenyatwa said…
HARARE – Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC is set to hold a conference to unveil its policies ahead of next year’s much anticipated elections, party vice president Nelson Chamisa has said. He told a Sapes policy dialogue forum in Harare last week that they have “polished up our policy documents because we believe it is not enough…
BULAWAYO – Highlnders hooligans masquerading as football fans forced the abandonment of their side’s Castle Lager Premiership match against Dynamos yesterday in protest over what was a highly contentious Christian Ntouba goal that was allowed to stand by match officials. Bosso had taken a 24th minute lead through captain Rahman Kutsanzira but the match degenerated…
