HARARE – National elections management body Zimbabwe Electoral Commisison (Zec) has said the country presently has no law which recognises gender parity but Parliament can legislate for 50-50 representation to achieve the Women’s Affairs committee’s goal of having equal gender representation in the legislature. Addressing the parliamentary portfolio committee on Women Affairs, Gender and Community…
HARARE – Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor John Mangudya clocked three years at the helm of the apex bank in March this year. Our Business Editor, John Kachembere, spoke to the central bank chief who is at the cusp of concluding talks with the Afreximbank for a loan facility to back an increase in…
BULAWAYO – The infighting over President Robert Mugabe’s succession has widened divisions among the country’s boisterous liberation war fighters, with high-profile war veterans — Tshinga Dube and George Mlala — escalating their tiff this week. Of late, Dube — the War Veterans minister — has been trading tirades with Mlala, who belongs to a faction…
BULAWAYO – The recent death of Cool Crooners frontman Abel Sithole at the age of 81, has prompted music fans in the City of Kings to examine the state of jazz music in Bulawayo. While many don’t necessarily believe that the late jazz maestro has taken the music genre with him into the grave, they…
HARARE – The directors of the local film Escape which was banned at the ongoing Zanzibar International Film Festival (ZIFF) over its erotic scenes, say they will now shun festivals in “conservative countries.” Escape, the first Zimbabwean film to premiere at ZIFF in the last six years, was banned by the Zanzibari censors a few…
HARARE – Bigtime Strategic Group, the South Africa-based company at the centre of the row between tourism minister Walter Mzembi and Zimbabwe Tourism Authority (ZTA) chief executive officer Karikoga Kaseke, will bring eight top artistes to this year’s Harare International Carnival. Kaseke, who was attacked early this week by Mzembi for “unilaterally” renaming the carnival…
HARARE – In a desperate bid to overturn a first leg 0-1 defeat suffered at the hands of Namibia in a 2018 Kenya African Nations Championships (Chan) qualifier, Warriors interim coach Sunday Chidzambwa has been forced to tinker with his team ahead of this weekend’s decisive return leg. The Warriors, who are bidding for a fifth…
HARARE – The inquest into Zimbabwe national football team’s African Cup of Nations dinner debacle which occurred in January, will remain a closely guarded secret, it has emerged. Seven months after the side snubbed a send-off dinner with Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa on the eve of the team’s departure for the Afcon finals in Gabon…
HARARE – There is no end in sight between the Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) and its former board member Bernard Gwarada after it emerged that the Sheriff had wrongfully attached property belonging to Zifa (Private) Limited to settle a debt. According to court papers, the Gwarada-owned company Led Travel and Tours is owed $90 306,04,…
HARARE – Businessman and socialite Wicknell Chivayo’s marriage to Harare-based Sonja Madzikanda has not been welcomed by some members of his family, it can be revealed. If his sister, Moe’s words are anything to go by, there is bad blood between them and the new sister-in-law whose marriage has created the rift in the family….
