BULAWAYO – Bulawayo City Council’s decision to ban musical shows at the popular Bulawayo Amphitheatre has seen promoters struggling to find a venue to host high profile gigs in the country’s second city. The city fathers pulled the plug on shows at the hugely liked Amphitheatre last year after residents living near the venue complained…
HARARE – Former Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) commissioner-general Gershem Pasi was sent on forced leave in May 2016 to pave way for investigations into allegations of corruption and poor corporate governance unearthed by a forensic audit instituted by the Auditor-General’s office. Pasi, who resigned in May 2017, sits down with Daily News reporter Farayi Machamire…
HARARE – With Zimbabwe’s leader Emmerson Mnangagwa in China for a seven-day State visit, his 13th foreign trip this year, his frequent travel abroad is stirring an outbreak of mass ridicule with some failing to differentiate him from his predecessor, the Daily News can report. Sworn-in as president on November 24 after 94-year-old Robert Mugabe…
HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa opted to hire a luxurious private plane to travel to China, abandoning the struggling national airliner Air Zimbabwe (AirZim), which has a plane of the same size albeit with no similar luxurious trappings. In a cocktail of austerity measures meant to preserve thinning foreign currency — Mnangagwa’s administration announced early…
HARARE – Opinion was starkly divided yesterday over President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s jet-setting, which has made him a visitor in his own country. Mnangagwa has been aggressive in his external engagements, both regional and internationally. While his publicists argue that the visits were meant to re-open doors for the country, shut during former president Robert Mugabe’s…
HARARE – The star witness in the rape trial of televangelist Walter Magaya has questioned Prosecutor-General Ray Goba’s fitness for office after allegedly pushing her to commit perjury by forcing her to testify against the preacher. Petronella Donhodzo Mandaza, who last year claimed she had been sexually abused by the Prophetic Healing and Deliverance Ministries…
HARARE – Prosecutor-General (PG) Ray Goba has sensationally claimed that witnesses were being interfered with by accused persons in a bid to jeopardise the State’s case against them. Speaking at the official opening of the anti-corruption courts in Harare on Thursday last week, the PG called on government to tighten legislative frameworks for witness protection…
HARARE – A collaboration is brewing between music superstar Oliver “Tuku” Mtukudzi and South African house band Mi Casa. The two partners met at the Cape Town International Jazz Festival last month, where the music guru performed as part of the tribute to the late musician, Hugh Masekela Mi Casa was the first to hint…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s transwoman Tatelicious Karigambe-Sandberg — who shocked the world last year when she claimed that she was pregnant — has made another stunning claim that she has suffered a miscarriage. Karigambe-Sandberg — who is now based in Sweden — was born a man and made headlines in 2015 after saying she had undergone…
Dynamos…………0 Highlanders….(1) 1 HARARE – Dynamos fans were left calling for the head of club president Kenni Mubaiwa following a painful defeat at the hands of fired-up Highlanders in a Castle Lager Premiership match here yesterday. DeMbare remain winless in their opening four games. The defeat, courtesy of a solitary Ozias Zibande strike on the…
