HARARE – Last week, I received an email from a soccer-loving Zimbabwean based in Cape Town, South Africa, Elias Nelson, and he was very engaging in the debates he was raising with regards to the state of our football and threw in a few pointers on why our local premiership is regressing — at least…
HARARE – It was by no means a coincidence that Christina Mashongera named her son Norest — it had all to do with his birth and his poor health, a tiny little baby who often got sick much to the anguish of his parents as they never thought anything good would come out from such…
HARARE – Chimurenga Music Company and Tuku Music officials revealed that they are working on a collaboration song of Thomas “Mukanya” Mapfumo and his former protégée Oliver “Tuku” Mtukudzi. This was revealed at a Mukanya Homecoming Gig press conference held at a Harare hotel yesterday. “Of course, we are working on something. We are going…
HARARE – The European Union Film Festival Zimbabwe is back, and will this year be held for five days from May 15 to 19. Theatre in the Park in the Harare Gardens will be the venue for all the films, which will be screened free of charge. “We have an amazing line-up of 11 European…
HARARE – Southpole Consulting Private Limited (Southpole) has secured $300 million to construct a 125 megawatt (MW) solar power plant in Victoria Falls. SouthPole, which has made an application to the Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera) said the project has primarily been conceived for self-consumption and, in particular, to supply power to the company’s data…
HARARE – The Confederation of Zimbabwe Retailers (CZR) has blamed price distortions on the existence of several de facto currencies in Zimbabwe. According to the CZR, which held its fourth annual Retailers and Wholesalers Indaba in Harare on Thursday, the de facto currencies being used in the country include treasury bills, EcoCash, Old Mutual shares…
HARARE – Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) foreign buys ballooned 1826,55 percent to $1,2 million from $64 186 on Thursday as non-Zimbabweans snapped up stocks on the local bourse following the Independence holiday. On Thursday, the primary All Share Index added a further 1,48 percent to end pegged at 94,61 points while, the Industrial Index put…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s opposition could expand the size of the economy more than fivefold to $100 billion within eight years if it wins this year’s elections, a former Finance minister said. The first elected government since Robert Mugabe stepped down in late 2017 under pressure from the military will inherit an economy shattered by almost…
HARARE – Expelled MDC deputy president Thokozani Khupe has commenced a multiplicity of actions in the High Court and Constitutional Court (Con-Court) in her desperate bid to dethrone Nelson Chamisa whose entry in the presidential race as the new MDC leader has ignited interest in the impending polls. Court papers filed in the High Court…
HARARE – Former president Robert Mugabe marked Zimbabwe’s Independence Day celebrations surrounded by relatives and close allies at his majestic Borrowdale home on Wednesday, rebuffing President Emmerson Mnangagwa who officiated at the main ceremony held at the National Sports Stadium on the same day. Mugabe, who has kept to his immaculate sense of dressing, declined…
