HARARE – Information, Media and Broadcasting Services minister Christopher Mushowe has slammed media polarisation and its abuse by politicians, saying it is destroying the country. He said this in a speech read on his behalf by his deputy Thokozile Mathuthu at the commemorations of World Press Freedom Day in Harare yesterday. “I want to kill…
HARARE – Former Industry and Commerce minister-turned-Zanu PF critic Nkosana Moyo turned down an offer to become Zimbabwe People First (ZPF) leader, forcing the party to settle for ex-diplomat Agrippa Mutambara, it has emerged. The party’s interim secretary for administration, Kudakwashe Bhasikiti, told the media yesterday that despite assertions by their erstwhile comrades — Rugare…
HARARE – Mines minister Walter Chidakwa has been caught in the eye of a storm after he lied that all the legal issues surrounding government’s takeover of the Chiadzwa diamond fields have been completed. This comes at a time the newly-formed government mining company — Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company (ZCDC) — is still embroiled in…
HARARE – As Zimbabwe joined the world in commemorating World Press Freedom Day yesterday, making the habitual — yet highly necessary — condemnations of constant harassment of journalists, the need for government to protect media practitioners cannot be over-emphasised. In the past few months, journalists from both private and public media have been constantly harassed…
HARARE – Zimbabwe this week joined the rest of the world in commemorating Workers’ Day celebrated worldwide on May 1 as unemployment in the country hovers at a staggering 90 percent. When Zimbabwe gained independence in 1980, the new leadership inherited a vibrant industry that employed millions of workers but 37 years down the line…
HARARE – For the past 18 years, the Harare International Festival of Arts (Hifa) has deservedly earned a reputation as a stickler for time and order. But on Tuesday night it did not go according to script for Zimbabwe’s biggest arts event. The festival’s opening show, a new-look collaboration of southern African musicians known as…
LAGOS – Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has missed his third cabinet meeting in a row amid ongoing questions about the state of his health. He has not been seen in public for more than a week. His wife Aisha Buhari had tweeted on Tuesday that her husband was not as sick as is being perceived….
HARARE – Zimdancehall star Soul Jah Love, pictured, who has captured the nation’s imagination with his latest hit Pamamonya Ipapo, will perform at the City Sports Bar in Harare tonight. Soul Jah Love will be part of the weekly Afribbean Nights Show which was created last year to promote reggae and dancehall. City Sports Bar…
HARARE – Whenever Mafikizolo’s Theo Kgosinkwe and Nhlanhla Nciza claim that Zimbabwe is their second home -as they have often done in recent years-this should never be dismissed as on-stage banter. The South African group has regularly performed in Zimbabwe over the past four years but this appears not to have dimmed interest in their…
LUSAKA – A 23-year-old Lusaka youth shocked people last Friday after he outbid everyone to buy Zambian President Lungu’s bow hat for K185 000 – $20 000. The ‘rich kid’, Munir Zulu – who bought the hat a ‘Meet the President Gala Dinner’ – said he paid the hefty price because he loves Lungu’s party,…
