HARARE – All roads will lead to EastPoint (ex-Jazz 105) in the capital tonight where top sungura musicians Alick Macheso and Romeo Gasa will share the stage for the first time since they launched their careers. The joint’s entertainment manager Daniel Lunga said they have deliberately pegged the ticket fee at $10 to manage the…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) is engulfed in a $20 million legal-payment row amid revelations that the Zesa Holdings subsidiary might have flouted procurement regulations by awarding such a hefty contract to Harare lawyer Sheila Mugugu without going to tender. In recent months, the energy firm has been under the spotlight for a…
HARARE – Controversial dancer Beverly “Bev” Sibanda says contrary to what some South African artists believe, she does not use juju to lure crowds to her shows. The Sexy Angels leader who was in South Africa recently for two months of touring, said everywhere she performed audiences packed her showcases and as such she fell…
HARARE – Newly-appointed Dynamos president Solomon Sanyamandwe has backed current coach Lloyd Mutasa to turn around fortunes at the club and finish the season in a respectable position. Sanyamandwe was appointed the new president to succeed Kenni Mubaiwa, who stepped down last month citing irreconcilable differences with the all-powerful board chairperson Bernard Marriot Lusengo. Mubaiwa…
HARARE – Tributes continued to pour in yesterday for legendary Zimbabwe boxer Langton “Schoolboy” Tinago, who passed away in Gweru on Tuesday after a short illness. The 69-year-old boxer, who left behind a wife and seven children, dazzled in the ring between the 1960s and 1980s, winning three Commonwealth titles. Between 1971 and 1988, Tinago…
HARARE – In a welcome development, war veterans have now joined the military in saying on the record that they will not stand in the way of opposition leader Nelson Chamisa if he defeats President Emmerson Mnangagwa in the crunch July 30 polls. [Adz]
HARARE – Former Zanu PF national political commissar Saviour Kasukuwere is said to have been placed on the “persons of interest” list by the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP). While the Daily News could not immediately establish the reason behind the renewed police interest in him, the former Local Government minister is viewed with suspicion by…
HARARE – MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has laid the grounds for an all-out war with the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) which he has given a week to agree to negotiations. Chamisa also blasted the electoral body’s chairperson, Priscilla Chigumba, at a press conference in Harare yesterday, saying she was “arrogant,” and that she has…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has come under fire for changing the positioning of the voting booths for the July 30 harmonised election so that voters cast their ballots facing Zec officials to prevent taking pictures of their voter preferences. Previously voting booths faced the wall. Zimbabwe’s leading domestic election monitoring agency, the…
HARARE – A report compiled on the Zimbabwean Electoral Commission voters’ roll for 2018 exposes major flaws in the current voters’ roll. This comes only weeks before Zimbabweans head to the polls for its national elections on July 30, 2018. The report, compiled by a group of experts called Team Pachudu, cites Zimbabwe’s history of…
