HARARE – Outspoken Chimurenga music icon Thomas “Mukanya” Mapfumo has urged Zimbabweans to vote wisely in the forthcoming harmonised elections. The elections are due on Monday. Speaking from his United States of America base, Mukanya posted a homemade video which has since gone viral on social media saying Zimbabweans have suffered enough hence the will…
HARARE – Community radio initiatives in the country have vowed to play a crucial role in spreading information during and after the elections due on Monday despite the government failing to license them to operate from their respective communities. Zimbabwe Association of Communication Radio Stations (Zacras) which for years has been advocating for the opening…
HARARE – Diversified investment holding company Brainworks says it has disposed of some of its stake in GetBucks Microfinance Bank, to reduce its short term debt. The disposal which decreased the company’s stake in Getbucks by about two percent to just under 30 percent, has generated $565 340,53 for the company. In a statement, the…
HARARE – Pharmaceutical group MedTech shed 50 percent in Thursday’s trade, dragging the All Share Index down for the third consecutive day. The group — which posted a loss of $577 016 during the six months to June from $305 408 recorded in the same period in prior year — closed the session at $0,0001,…
HARARE – The wait is over as Zimbabweans on Monday vote to choose a new leader following the resignation of former president Robert Mugabe who was replaced by his long time aide Emmerson Mnangagwa who was sworn in to finish his term which ends at midnight tomorrow. That journey which started on November 15, 2017…
HARARE – On Monday, over 5,6 million voters in Zimbabwe will give the first significant electoral verdict on the political parties since the departure in November of long-ruling despot Robert Mugabe. Voters will get the chance to bring in their verdict on the 23 presidential candidates running, those running for the National Assembly and the…
HARARE – At the height of her husband’s rule, former first lady Grace Mugabe would make sure that the world knows about her birthday. Live television coverage and floods of newspaper adverts captured the biggest day in the life of a woman whose political influence in the last years of her husband’s tenure shook the…
HARARE – As Zimbabwe holds its national harmonised elections on Monday, very few people have had the chance to scrutinise the calibre of candidates bidding to become their representatives in local government issues. Such has been the focus placed on the presidential plebiscite where President Emmerson Mnangagwa, MDC Alliance’s Nelson Chamisa, and 21 others, that…
HARARE – With election fever now truly gripping the country ahead of Monday’s crunch national polls, Harare is the focal point of campaign stumps today by heavy hitters President Emmerson Mnangagwa and opposition leader Nelson Chamisa — who will address hordes of their respective supporters within three kilometres of each other. After whirlwind tours of…
HARARE – In the second major shake-up of the police force since the ouster from power of Robert Mugabe, authorities have promoted close to 500 senior cops, the Daily News can report. The latest shake-up comes a week after nearly 2 000 junior police officers were also promoted to higher ranks, as President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s…
