HARARE – An Apostolic Product Certification Trust (APCT) has been formed seeking to ensure food processing companies comply with a mix of national processing standards that requires vapostori to consume foods and drinks that do not contain any alcohol or pork. Obey Mapuranga, the chairperson of APCT, said they were a food certification organisation registered…
HARARE – Tendai Biti’s opposition People’s Democratic Party has said President Robert Mugabe’s intention to be the first State president in the world to own an airline showed unbridled ambition and shocking greed. The airline, dubbed Zimbabwe Airways, was said to be purchasing condemned planes from Malaysia Airways. Mugabes’ son-in-law, Simba Chikore, the current chief…
HARARE – There are no chemically-manufactured drugs in Godfrey Mwerenga’s pharmacy. However, the small shop in Harare, branded Modern Herbal Drugs and Cosmetics Clinic, looks ordinary — bottles of medicines in shelves and jars of powder all over believed to fight all ailments from headache to cancer. Mwerenga’s remedies are made exclusively from ground-up local…
HARARE – The country’s informal sector is meeting in Harare tomorrow to discuss their grievances and to map a way forward after the government moved to outlaw their businesses. Navuz president Sten Zvorwadza said vendors, forex dealers and touts were attending the indaba at the Anglican Cathedral in the CBD. He said they cannot fold…
HARARE – On Sunday night Jamaican star Tarrus Riley (pictured) delivered a concert awash with class, energy and variety but sadly Harare International Conference Centre (HICC) was just half-full. As predicted in the run-up to the Jamaican star’s first ever concert on Zimbabwean soil, a combination of high ticket prices and the Castle Lager National…
HARARE – Revellers who attended the 2017 Castle Lager National Braai Day celebrations held at Old Hararians in Harare on Saturday consumed 15 132 kilogrammes of meat, surpassing the 12 000kg braaied and eaten at last year’s edition. Zimbabwe’s biggest braai event also attracted a record crowd of 16 000. Last year’s event was attended…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe National Chamber of Commerce (ZNCC) says the country must diversify into other sectors of the economy in order to address the present economic crunch biting hard on the nation. “There must be a shift from today’s silo-style focus on agriculture, mining or industry, to a value chain, value addition model that…
HARARE – Karma is a bi**h. And a week is a long time in politics. Just last week, de-stooled Prosecutor-General Ray Goba, abused and insulted a Daily News journalist inquiring into Victory World International Ministries Church leader Paul Sanyangore’s rape charges after a congregant reported a sexual battery case against him in June this year….
HARARE – The dismissal of Prosecutor-General (PG) Ray Goba, hardly two months after assuming office as the country’s substantive PG, is really shocking. As pointed out by constitutional law experts, President Robert Mugabe’s rescission of Goba’s appointment is a violation of the Constitution and is fraught with many inconsistencies. Goba’s dismissal was announced in last…
HARARE – Dynamos have hit out at hooligan elements among their fans saying violent behaviour could cost the club in the Castle Lager Premiership run-in. The Glamour Boys supporters showcased their ugly side in Saturday’s defeat to Ngezi Platinum Stars at Baobab Stadium. As their team slumped to a 2-0 defeat conceding two quick goals…
