HARARE – MultiChoice Zimbabwe has slashed subscription prices for most of its bouquets as it gears up for potential competition from Kwese TV which is currently in the courts fighting for its right to broadcast in Zimbabwe. The digital satellite service provider, which has also launched a new cheaper package called DStv Lite, has reduced…
HARARE – Award-winning music promoter, Partson “Chipaz” Chimbodza, who recently waved goodbye to showbiz after a 13-year stint, has singled out music superstar Oliver “Tuku” Mtukudzi’s tour of Mozambique several years ago as his biggest flop. Chipaz told the Daily News that the flopped Tuku tour of Beira was the sore point of a generally…
HARARE – The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has started issuing savings bonds to individual and institutional investors with a promise of seven percent annual return. The central bank, which is issuing the debt securities to help raise money to fund government business, said applications can be lodged through commercial, building societies and the Post…
EDITOR — In sharing my views with fellow Zimbabweans I feel enthused to do it through your beloved daily edition which I believe is the best forum of independent opinions. This time around let me dig to the bottom of the Mujuru-led NPP/Morgan Tsvangirai-led MDC failed coalition and other opposition parties. The resultant leadership impasse…
HARARE – The “Zanu PF Bootlickers Club”, signed up a new member on Monday — Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Perhaps, conscious of the ugly economic situation that awaited his boss upon his return from the United States, where he had gone to attend the 72nd United Nations General Assembly, Mnangagwa — who was the acting…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe has dropped the clearest hint that he might reshuffle his Cabinet anytime soon to weed out elements seen as fomenting discord in his government, the Daily News can report. Mugabe last reshuffled his Cabinet in September 2015 as he sought to uproot functionaries that were associated with former vice president…
HARARE – At least 10 999 citizens have so far biometrically registered to vote in next years’ elections, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission said yesterday. The biometric voter registration exercise — which started on September 14 — is being carried out in 63 Zec district offices countrywide for the purposes of creation of the new voters’…
HARARE – Economists warned of worse shortages of basic commodities and an expanding parallel currency market as the Zimbabwean government mulls plans for new price controls across all sectors of production, to take effect within the next weeks. President Robert Mugabe has hinted at the introduction of a new price control structure, which includes fuel,…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has said data collected during electronic voter registration will be stored in tamper-proof flash drives before the information is fed into a central data base which is hack-proof. This comes after the opposition has raised fears that there are inadequate security measures to guard against unauthorised access to…
HARARE – Popular musician and producer Innocent Utsiwegota has been dragged to the High Court after failing to pay back $24 000 that he borrowed from a Tynwald woman in 2012. According to court papers, Utsiwegota borrowed $40 000 from Doren Nerwande. He reportedly paid back $2 000 in December 2015 and a further $3…
