HARARE – South African Afro-fusion music group Freshlyground which was barred from performing at the Harare International Festival of the Arts(HIFA) in 2014 under former president Robert Mugabe’s regime will this year form part of the highlights of the six-day festival running from May 1. The group which was stopped from entering Zimbabwe by the…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s own bar village concept is beginning to take shape in downtown Harare where Red Cafe is set to open its doors to the public this Friday. With two popular night clubs — Private Lounge and Holly’s Hotel — already operational along Harare Street, Red Café is joining the party, hence making the…
HARARE – Heath Streak’s men face the United Arab Emirates at Harare Sports Club today in their last Super Six ICC Cricket World Cup Qualifier fully aware that their destiny is firmly in their own hands for a place at next year’s ICC Cricket World Cup. A victory for the hosts guarantees them a place…
MUTARE – Timber companies here have a new problem to deal with — menacing troops of baboons — which have raised fresh fears of affecting the production of pine trees. A decade ago, the primates severely affected estates in the Eastern Highlands. Most plantations have been ravaged by illegal settlers who invaded large swathes of…
HARARE – Our politics have entered very interesting times with social media, as usual, going into overdrive peddling any form of lies that can be imagined, most casting aspersions on specific persons in political office. Scary stories of mabhinya (murderers) — alleged to have been terrorising the country’s southern provinces — to the juiciest political…
HARARE – Government officials have over the years disrespected Parliament by stubbornly refusing to answer questions from legislators. Just recently, Registrar-General (RG) Tobaiwa Mudede refused to divulge his age as he appeared before the parliamentary portfolio committee on Defence and Home Affairs chaired by Makokoba MP Tshinga Dube on issuance of primary documents. Instead of…
HARARE – Government yesterday attempted to coerce striking doctors to resume work by withholding salaries and allowances. Defiant doctors said they will not yield to the threats until government acceded to their demands for better pay and working conditions. In a circular to senior health officials copied to Health Services Board executive director Ruth Kaseke…
HARARE – Government yesterday freed 3 000 inmates under an amnesty as prisons struggle to feed inmates due to lack of funding from the government. President Emmerson Mnangagwa granted the clemency that will benefit all convicted female prisoners, juveniles, those terminally ill and those serving at the open prison. Mnangagwa also freed inmates convicted to…
HARARE – Civil Service Commission permanent secretary Francis Pedzana Gudyanga and ex-minister Walter Chidakwa will now be prosecuted jointly in a $29 000 corruption charge. Chidakwa and Gudyanga initially appeared in court separately until yesterday when prosecutor Sabastian Mutizirwa successfully applied for the cases to be merged. Chidakwa is being accused of appointing Gudyanga as…
HARARE – Scores of travellers were left stranded at the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport after an Air Zimbabwe flight destined for Johannesburg failed to take off yesterday morning. Air Zimbabwe’s marketing and planning manager Runesu Kwaramba confirmed the development to the Daily News, but said it was just a mere delay, as the plane…
