HARARE – From this Sunday, the Daily News on Sunday will be publishing this new column that celebrates women in top positions. In our ground-breaking instalment, deputy Business Editor Ndakaziva Majaka caught up with the National Social Security Authority (Nssa) general manager, Elizabeth Chitiga. Before she assumed the Nssa post in October 2016, the ex-Reserve…
HARARE – It appears it never rains but pours for Zimbabwe’s capital city, which has been struggling to supply adequate potable water to its residents, despite the above normal rains received during the last farming season. While the heavy rains culminated in devastating floods in some places around Matabeleland North and South, Masvingo and Manicaland…
HARARE – The ruling Zanu PF party is reviving its election machinery in readiness for next year’s polls. A string of “meetings” lined up by party leader President Robert Mugabe to “interface” with Zanu PF youths should serve as evidence that the ruling party means business, and will not allow anything to stand in its…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s economic turmoil has resulted in 109 milling companies closing down in the past eight years amid fears that the Mandatory Food Fortification programme will result in more milling companies twisting in the wind. Industry experts reason that these companies used to employ an average of 120 people each, both indirectly and directly,…
HARARE – Attention in Zanu PF will shift to the forthcoming politburo meeting after the supreme decision-making organ of the ruling party failed to conclusively deal with a report on its national political commissar, Saviour Kasukuwere, at its meeting last week. Indications are that the meeting that was meant to be convened on Wednesday could…
HARARE – One of Zimbabwe’s greatest music composers, Dickson Chingaira, aka Cde Chinx, passed away on Friday, plunging the arts and music industry into mourning. Cde Chinx died at West End Hospital in Harare after battling leukaemia cancer. He was 61 and leaves behind his two wives, Patricia and Ntombizodwa, as well as 10 children….
HARARE – “An artiste cannot fail; it is a success to be one,” this assertion was made by American Sociologist Charles Horton Cooley back in the day; the statement has since lost relevance when applied to Zimbabwean artistes. The harsh economic environment prevailing in the country has left many artistes living from hand to mouth…
BULAWAYO – Recently, multi-talented artiste Madlela Skhobokhobo hogged the limelight in the City of Kings when he garnered four nominations — the highest number by an individual artiste in the inaugural Bulawayo Arts Awards set to be held at the Large City Hall on June 30. The Daily News on Sunday’s Jeffrey Muvundusi recently spoke…
HARARE – United Kingdom (UK)-based Zimbabwean singer Farhaan “Kazz” Khan has set his sight on the African market after collaborating with artistes from Zambia and Malawi on the remix of his track Kudana. The Masvingo-born artiste, better known as Mr Boomslang, worked with Zambian artiste Tbwoy as well as UK-based Bucci and Hazel Mak— originally from…
HARARE – After the horror show against Al-Ahli Tripoli at home in the African Champions League, CAPS United coach Lloyd Chitembwe is relaxed as he prepares for the same opponents this week. Makepekepe were awful as they were defeated 2-4 at the National Sports Stadium earlier this month. The Green Machine leave for Tunisia today…
