HARARE – Zimbabwe’s Benjamin Follett-Smith was the highest-placed golfer during the just-ended Sunshine Tour-sanctioned Lombard Insurance Classic at Royal Swazi Spa Country Club. Follett-Smith finished the tournament with a score of nine-under 209 to tie for 30th place together with the South African pair of Derick Petersen and Desne Van Den Bergh. Two other local…
HARARE – Barely six months after Alick Macheso and Peter Moyo shared the stage in Mozambique, the two sungura musicians are returning to the former Portuguese colony next month to headline the country’s uhuru celebrations. The celebrations to mark Mozambique’s 43 years of majority rule are pencilled for Campo Estrela Verhelma in Beira on June…
HARARE – Songbird Tahle WeDzinza has released a dance track titled Teleunga that was inspired by a Hawaiian dance. The just-released song, which is Tahle WeDzinza’s second after her debut track titled Give Me More on which she featured music star Jah Prayzah, was produced by DJ Tamuka at Military Touch Movement (MTM) and mastered…
HARARE – Former Zanu PF national political commissar and ex-senior Cabinet minister, Saviour Kasukuwere, returned to Zimbabwe yesterday — ending his six months in exile that began in November last year following the dramatic ouster from power of former president Robert Mugabe. Speaking in an exclusive interview with the Daily News, a relaxed Kasukuwere said…
HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been caught offside yet again after he created a Special Anti-Corruption Unit (SACU) in his office dismissed by legal experts as a nullity because it has no legal basis. In a statement issued on Monday, the chief secretary to the President and Cabinet, Misheck Sibanda, said the unit would…
HARARE – Last weekend’s cancellation of a scheduled rally in Harare by Thokozani Khupe’s MDC formation could be evidence of the party’s lack of support, a rival formation led by Nelson Chamisa has alleged. Khupe’s party had planned to launch its manifesto at the Harare showgrounds (Nelson Mandela Hall), but the event flopped after its…
HARARE – Hordes OF MDC T supporters, suspected to be rooting for Nelson Chamisa in the party’s unresolved succession, yesterday swamped the Supreme Court and hurled insults at their former vice president Thokozani Khupe. This came as the Supreme Court directed the High Court to hold a trial to determine whether Khupe is entitled to…
HARARE – The Harare City Council (HCC) has shortlisted 11 candidates for the position of town clerk, mayor Bernard Manyenyeni revealed on Monday. The position has been vacant since 2015 when Tendai Mahachi was retrenched and replaced with Josephine Ncube, albeit in an acting capacity. Before the latest development, council had shortlisted three candidates for…
HARARE – ZANU PF Epworth Ward 1 councillor, Elina Mazhandu, has quit the ruling party to join the New Patriotic Front (NPF), believed to have strong links to former president Robert Mugabe. Mazhandu cited widespread harassment and threats on her life by Zanu PF members allegedly led by ruling party Epworth youth leader, Kudakwashe Damson,…
HARARE – Former first lady Grace Mugabe is at the centre of a vicious war of words between spokesperson of the stuttering National Patriotic Front (NPF), Jealousy Mawarire, and exiled two former Cabinet ministers — Jonathan Moyo and Patrick Zhuwao — who have been accused of trying to impose themselves on the opposition party. Mawarire…
