HARARE – The Harare City Council will soon embark on a facelift of Mbare Musika vegetable market and bus terminus, which had become an eyesore. Council spokesperson Michael Chideme said the upgrade will make the popular market and bus terminus more user friendly for both commuters and transport operators. “We will be starting very soon…
HARARE – One of two Zanu PF activists who allegedly murdered a tractor driver at the height of the country’s bloody land reform programme is seeking to be set free, 17 years after the alleged incident took place. Dabson Zhuwao and his accomplice Tapiwa Chimbandi were initially arrested in 2001 on culpable homicide charges and…
HARARE – Former police commissioner-general Augustine Chihuri has been sucked in a number of controversies ever since he was retired from the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) in December last year. Unlike his predecessors who retired quietly, Chihuri is being hounded left, right and centre since the dawn of a new era, under President Emmerson Mnangagwa….
HARARE – Popular contemporary musicians Andy Muridzo and Freeman are set to rock Murewa today during the World Telecommunication and Information Society Day Celebrations. Muridzo, who recently launched his new album Munondo, which has been well-received by his fans, is expected to deliver a thriller with new songs and his band’s energetic dancing skills in…
HARARE – Local rhumba musicians say Congolese rhumba star Fally Ipupa, who is set to perform in Harare on May 26, has no capacity to revive “the love of the genre” in Zimbabwe. Fally Ipupa will share the stage with Oliver Mtukudzi, Juntal and Diamond Musica at Harare International Conference Centre next week on Saturday….
HARARE – Britain has been forced to come clean on allegations that it is backing President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration to win the forthcoming polls a week after MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa had broken with diplomatic etiquette by cautioning Number 10 Downing Street against cosying-up with the ruling Zanu PF party. [Adz]
HARARE – Teachers will be taking to the streets on Friday to protest against government’s offer of increasing their salaries by 15 percent, saying the effort fell far too short of their expectations. Government had initially offered a 10 percent increase before upping the figure to 15 percent, with effect from July 1, following a…
HARARE – Contrary to claims by Zanu PF that the issue of ballot paper cannot be subjected to open tender, the Electoral Act mandates the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) to disclose the process to competing parties in an election. There has been disagreement between the ruling party and the Nelson Chamisa-led opposition MDC over whether…
ADDIS – Ethiopia’s new Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has said that his government was investigating foreign bank accounts held by government officials, state-owned Fana Broadcasting Corporation news site reports. The report did not give details of whether they were former or current government officials or what their rank was. It just said that foreign countries…
PYONGYANG – North Korea has said it may pull out of a summit with US President Donald Trump if the US insists it gives up its nuclear weapons. The highly anticipated meeting between Mr Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong-un is due to take place on 12 June. But in an angry statement, North Korea’s…
