HARARE – At least six Zimbabwean golfers will be in contention when the RAM Cape Town Open returns to Royal Cape Golf Club in South Africa this morning. After the festive season break, the Sunshine Tour returned last week with the Eye of Africa PGA Championship in Johannesburg last week before moving to Cape Town…
A FRESH political crisis may be brewing in the country after opposition leader Nelson Chamisa snubbed President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s talks-about-talks gathering at State House yesterday, as authorities begin to show more urgency about ending Zimbabwe’s decades-long political and economic mess. Chamisa said he had rebuffed Mnangagwa’s meeting because he preferred the much-talked about national dialogue…
Fresh fissures have emerged in the ruling Zanu PF, with disgruntled members of its youth league passing a vote of no confidence on their leader Pupurai Togarepi and four other members of his executive, the Daily News can report. Togarepi and his lieutenants are under fire for “misconduct and for “letting down” President Emmerson Mnangagwa over…
JUDICIAL Service Commission (JSC) acting secretary Walter Chikwana has defended president Emmerson Mnangagwa’s appointment of Kumbirai Hodzi as the country’s substantive prosecutor general, following an application filed by a Harare man who is seeking to have the appointment nullified. This comes after an applicant, Simbarashe Zuze, filed a Constitutional Court application arguing Hodzi scored badly…
THE Constitutional Court (Con-Court) has thrown out, with costs, an application by a Harare man Simbarashe Zuze who had challenged President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s appointment of Kumbirai Hodzi as the country’s substantive prosecutor general. “It is ordered that: the request for an interim case management order, having been deemed abandoned in terms of Section 9 (6)…
A Harare court yesterday sentenced an HIV-positive maid to 25 years in prison for intentionally infecting a 12-year-old boy with the virus and a sexually transmitted infection. Memory Makore, a 40-year-old house help, allegedly coaxed the boy on two occasions, infecting him with the virus and genital warts. Makore pleaded guilty to two counts of…
FARIDABAD – Wire craft artist Stewart Mauzinyu ,48, Zimbabwe’s sole representative at the ongoing Surajkund International Crafts Mela hosted annually by the Indian District of Faridabad, is happy with the impact he is making at what is widely regarded as the world’s biggest handicraft fair. The event, which began at the beginning of this month…
Minister of Environment, Tourism and Hospitality Industry, Priscah Mupfumira and Zimbabwe Tourism Authority (ZTA)board have seconded from the board, Rita Likukuma on an acting role of chief executive with effect from February 1, 2019. ZTA chief operating officer, Givemore Chidzidzi had been acting since November 2018 on behalf of Karikoga Kaseke who has been off work…
DENDERA musician Suluman Chimbetu has described sungura giant Alick Macheso as a father figure deserving of his respect. He said he was advised by the late superstar Oliver Mtukudzi to seek counsel from him and that he is part of his patriarchal line which extends from his late father Simon up to the surviving father…
Rising dancehall star Jah Signal has scored a first in his career as he was chosen to record a song with Jamaican reggae greats Tony Rebel, Queen Ifrica and Exco Levi Dubbed Zimbabwe Peace Song, the full track will be out this weekend and a promotional piece is already circulating online. Reports are that Jah Signal…
