HARARE – Former Zimbabwe Cricket (ZC) bowling coach Makhaya Ntini has no kind words for his former employers describing them as “dishonest”. Although ZC issued a statement on Sunday insisting that Ntini had retired on his own accord, the former Proteas Test bowler rubbished the claims in an interview with Radio 2000 back in South…
HARARE – Zimbabwe Tourism Authority (ZTA) chief executive Karikoga Kaseke, whose organisation runs the annual Harare International Carnival, has promised a bigger edition later this year. Thousands of excited fans thronged the event in September last year. “The Harare International Carnival is a government event which should run on yearly basis; and as such it…
HARARE – Zimdancehall star Winky D’s new album titled Gombwe to be launched at the Harare International Conference Centre on February 2 is expected to open the way for many other albums by some of Zimbabwe’s top stars. Big names expected to release albums in the first quarter of this year include dendera star Suluman…
HARARE – Rising artiste Jerome “JJ” Arab, who represented Zimbabwe on the 2014 edition of Big Brother Africa (BBA), is happy with the way his music career blossomed over the just-ended year. JJ, now based in Zambia, released an album titled Learning Love in March last year which he took on a four-country southern African…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s economy is expected to perform better in 2018 compared to last year due to a stable political environment, financial analysts have said. The country’s economy was estimated to have grown by 3,4 percent in 2017 on the back of a improved agriculture season and gains in the mining and tourism sectors. [Adz]…
HARARE – Econet Wireless Zimbabwe (Econet) is set to become one of the first companies in Zimbabwe to set up a photovoltaic power plant at its premises in Willowvale for own consumption. This comes as the country has been experiencing power outages in the past decade due to low electricity production resulting in companies ratcheting…
HARARE – The flamboyant president of the country’s supreme football governing body, Zifa, Philip Chiyangwa, has fought very good wars in southern African football — thereby raising his profile as one of the faces that are welcome in the global sport. Firstly, he successfully waged a messy war with then long-serving Confederations of African Football…
HARARE – Barely two months after President Emmerson Mnangagwa dramatically succeeded long-ruling 93-year-old Robert Mugabe, the new dispensation has made numerous pronouncements. From giving looters of national resources a three-month ultimatum to return the loot, to making moves to retire the old guard from civil service. Even officials long-suspected of corruption and criminal abuse of…
HARARE – Government is set to review the new curriculum before month-end to incorporate some of the concerns from key stakeholders who include teachers and parents. Primary and Secondary Education minister Paul Mavima told the Daily News yesterday that while he was still to receive a full report from a technical team established for that…
HARARE – The Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Lands, Agriculture and Rural Resettlement is set to investigate the alleged abuse of agriculture inputs distributed under the Command Agriculture with a view to push for the prosecution of the culprits. This was disclosed by the committee’s chairperson and Gokwe Nembudziya legislator, Justice Mayor Wadyajena. The move will…
