BULAWAYO – Award-winning Umkhathi Theatre Works Company founder Matesu Dube says his group’s two-decade history is a “product of determination against all odds.” Umkhathi Theatre Works was formed in 1997 by seven people led by Dube after their former group Young Warriors Theatre Company had folded after its director Norman Takawira had left to join…
HARARE – Eight-year-old Kutenda Gabs has released a video for the track Vakafa Vose Vachamuka off his debut album titled Merciful God launched in October this year. Kutenda’s mother, Evelyn Maforo, is confident that the video will popularise the North Park Primary School Grade 3 pupil which was produced by Munya Vialy. “Kutenda’s album has…
HARARE – With the 2017 Caste Lager Premiership season all done and dusted, all the attention has now shifted to the clubs’ hunt for new coaches to lead them in the 2018 season. After a disappointing season under Dutchman Erol Akbay, Highlanders are looking for a new coach. Akbay announced that he would be not…
HARARE – FC PLATINUM coach Norman Mapeza wants his side to conclude their transfer business early as they seek to assemble a formidable side ahead of the 2018 African Champions League deadline this month. The platinum miners will represent Zimbabwe in next year’s Champions League after winning their maiden Castle Lager Premiership title. Mapeza wants…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s leading karateka Samson Muripo is in line to win this year’s Sports Person of the Year Award after being shortlisted for the Annual National Sports Awards (Ansa) yesterday. Having been overlooked in recent years despite his exploits, Muripo could be finally rewarded in a year he was crowned world champion at the…
HARARE – The honeymoon is over for President Emmerson Mnangagwa as he is under pressure to put in place significant social, economic and political reforms ahead of next year’s elections to set himself apart from his predecessor, Robert Mugabe. Mnangagwa came into power following the resignation of Mugabe, who had been the country’s leader for…
HARARE – Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) commander, General Constantino Chiwenga, is seen standing a good chance of being elevated straight from the barracks to become one of the two vice presidents at Zanu PF’s extraordinary congress scheduled for this month, the Daily News can report. At the special congress, Emmerson Mnangagwa will be endorsed as…
HARARE – Twenty-one officials from the ministry of Health and Child Care died on Saturday night when a truck they were travelling in overturned at a sharp curve in Jimila, Matabeleland North Province. Fifteen of the officials died on the spot while six others died on admission at Tsholotsho District Hospital. The truck had 50…
HARARE – The case of a Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) informer Delish Nguwaya, who is accused of extorting $15 000 from a local businessman has taken a new twist after one of the State witnesses, a police inspector, told the court that he was forced to nail the suspect, failure of which he was to…
HARARE – A massive joint army, police and council blitz under Operation Restore Legacy will today ignite a possible confrontation with vendors and illegal foreign currency dealers who have trickled back into Harare’s CBD. The message was delivered jointly by the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP), Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) and Harare Municipal police who spent…
