HARARE – Ngoma Nehosho, which hosted Grammy Award-winning British soul singer Joss Stone at 7 Arts Theatre in Harare at the beginning of this month, has come up with a new music festival set for October. Director of Ngoma Nehosho Music Festival, Walter Wanyanya has promised a line-up full of world-class performers from all genres….
HARARE – Jamaican artistes have been increasingly flocking to Harare especially from 2009 when the country adopted the multi-currency system. In August alone, Harare is going to host two Jamaican international reggae icons in the form of Busy Signal and Beenie Man on August 5 and 26 respectively. The former will be showcasing at Glamis…
HARARE – As President Robert Mugabe prepares for the make-or-break elections next year, in which the opposition could contest as a coalition, the Zanu PF leader faces a dilemma as to whether he should completely ditch the war veterans who are increasingly getting outspoken about his leadership or lean towards the youths for his 2018…
HARARE – War Veterans minister, Tshinga Dube, had a one-on-one meeting with President Robert Mugabe after yesterday’s Cabinet meeting, the first such encounter since a furore broke out over the retired colonel’s controversial remarks over the weekend. The former Zimbabwe Defence Industries chief executive won the hearts of many when he declared his support for…
HARARE – Water supplies to over three million residents of the capital city will be cut off this weekend to enable maintenance work to be carried out at Morton Jaffray (MJ) Water Treatment Works, the Daily News can report. MJ is undergoing refurbishment after the city fathers secured a $144 million loan from the Export-Import…
HARARE – MDC MPs have urged the Parliament to back its calls for a national day in remembrance of its supporters who were either killed or seriously injured in the 2008 retribution campaign by Zanu PF in the run up to the bloody presidential run-off of that year. The opposition backbenchers called for a day…
HARARE – #ThisFlag movement leader Evan Mawarire and a medical students’ leader appeared in court yesterday for allegedly participating in a demonstration against steep fees hike at the University of Zimbabwe (UZ). Mawarire, 40, and Ocean Chihota, 34, appeared before Harare magistrate Rumbidzayi Mugwagwa charged with participating in a gathering with intent to promote public…
HARARE – Desperate Zimbabwean students studying in Cyprus are engaged in dangerous activities which include drug trafficking, prostitution and gambling as they bid to fund their university education, Parliament revealed yesterday. In its startling remarks, Parliament’s Foreign Affairs committee warned that there was need for intervention as some students had been jailed for various offences…
HARARE – A report by Auditor-General (AG) Mildred Chiri has exposed serious loopholes at the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (ZimStat) which failed to account for $28 million used during the 2012 national census — amid concerns over veracity of suppliers’ invoices and suspicious registers of participants who claimed expenses during the exercise. The damning report…
HARARE – The old guard in Zanu PF has all but hijacked President Robert Mugabe’s youth interface rally set for Masvingo tomorrow, amid indications that the event could be used as a platform to assert factional preferences. Party insiders told the Daily News yesterday that Zanu PF politburo members, Josiah Hungwe and Shuvai Mahofa, have…
