HARARE – Music superstar Oliver “Tuku” Mtukudzi will collaborate with India’s best-known violinist, Lakshminarayana Subramaniam, in one of the highlights of the India in the Sunshine City Festival, which will run at various Harare venues from today until August 30. The Tuku-Subramaniam on-stage duet will take place on August 26 in the Harare Gardens. Given…
HARARE – South African dancer and socialite Zodwa Wabantu will be gracing two events in Harare early next month but her visit has divided opinion among Zimbabweans. Zodwa Wabantu, real name Rebecca Zodwa Libram, is expected to grace Private Lounge on September 8 as well as taking part in the Harare International Carnival which will…
HARARE – First Lady Grace Mugabe yesterday escaped arrest in Johannesburg, South Africa, where she was slapped with charges for severely assaulting a 20-year-old woman she had found with her sons at an upmarket hotel in Sandton, on Sunday. On a dramatic day, South Africa’s Police minister Fikile Mbalula said Grace had handed over herself…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe yesterday chose the packed National Sports Stadium as the best platform to heap praises on the military boss Constantino Chiwenga for attaining a doctorate degree — while in the process invalidating claims by Higher and Tertiary Education minister Jonathan Moyo — who had questioned how he acquired it. Moyo last…
HARARE – The Zanu PF Masvingo Province has written to the politburo requesting that its late forthright Provincial Affairs minister Shuvai Ben Mahofa — who collapsed and died on Monday morning — be declared a national heroine. Mahofa, 76, who died in the early hours of Monday, had been unwell for some time, although she…
HARARE – Government is looking for an investor to inject $6 million in once Zimbabwe’s and southern Africa’s biggest drug manufacturer — CAPS Holdings — which has been teetering on the brink of total collapse ever since it started experiencing financial problems more than five years ago. CAPS Holdings’ Southerton plant at the flagship CAPS…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s High Court has ordered Local Government deputy minister Christopher Chingosho who has invaded a Makoni farm to vacate the land or face eviction by the police. In her ruling, Judge Justice Loice Matanda-Moyo last week declared the farm invasion unlawful and ruled that the deputy minister must leave the property. United States-based…
HARARE – The Division of Veterinary Services has imposed strict controls on the operation of veterinary laboratories in new regulations under the Animal Health Act. This comes after the Council of Veterinary Surgeons of Zimbabwe (CVSZ) has warned Zimbabweans to be on the lookout for bogus veterinary surgeons who are practising under the name of…
BULAWAYO – A fearless Bulawayo-based independent candidate, Vimbainashe Musvaburi, who is a nurse by profession, has challenged long ruling President Robert Mugabe to step down, arguing he is too old to continue running the country. Musvaburi, who recently announced her candidature for the Bulawayo South seat, becomes the second woman to take up the challenge…
HARARE – Hotel operators in Victoria Falls are reporting a better-than-expected half year profit and raising their earnings forecast for the year, helped by a boost in business travel following a recently commissioned $150 million international airport. This comes after Kenya Airways and Ethiopian Airways in April introduced direct flights to Victoria Falls from Nairobi…
