THIS beautiful city, with its gorgeous and serene environment, a rich culture, coupled with conventional tree-lined streets, is facing a worsening water crisis. Once a pristine Ndebele King Lobengula’s capital before the colonialists turned it into the country’s industrial hub, Bulawayo is deep in the throes of not just pesky, perennial water woes. In the…
WHEN the taxman pays an impromptu visit, they all shut their doors; and when he calls-in everyone stampedes for the exits just to get a good reason to say “no one heard the call”. Very few people would want to pay their taxes, if there is a good reason to save their own skin. Besides,…
ZIMBABWE’s local currency, the RTGS dollar, has shed more than 20 percent of its value since its introduction as the availability of foreign currency on the formal market remains subdued. By Friday last week, the RTGS dollar had weakened to RTGS$ 3.0120 against the United States dollar, a 20 percent drop. Analysts attribute the continued…
AMONG the many benefits that employers provide to their employees is the free parking space benefit. As such, it has become a common practice for employers to offer free parking space to employees when they come for work or to enter into arrangements that provide parking for their employees’ personal cars. [GoogleAd] The arrangements may…
WHOEVER said the more things change, the more they remain the same was not far off the mark, at least in relation to Zimbabwe. We have a whole regime pretending to be a new dispensation but still stuck to same old ways of doing things. For starters, some of the long-time actors of the ancient…
It sure is a comic circus of tragic proportions. Thank God, the life of Senator Tambudzani Mohadi was spared after the vice president’s aide restrained him from getting his gun. If he had carried out his threat, would those hordes of watching police officers have immediately cuffed him or they would have waited for the…
WHEN you meet the motherly Aziza Hawa, 74, you are immediately struck by her humility and the effortless way she interacts with people of all classes. Not many people, though, know that the person beneath this veneer of simplicity is the owner of Fazak Africa — a popular brand name in the southern part of…
The total number of Zimbabweans on Medical Aid Cover ranges between 800 000 and 1000 000 members. This represents as at December 31, 2017 about $650 million that has accrued to the sector as income on annual basis. Funds handled by the medical aid societies and insurance sector surpass the annual health budget. [GoogleAd] While…
TALENTED dancer Beverly ‘Bev’ Sibanda’s star continues to shine with demand for her showcases growing outside the country’s borders. Bev told the Daily News on Sunday that promoters from as far as Cyprus are after her signature. Some want her to become a resident artist at joints in foreign lands, hence putting her on salary….
SASHA, the little seven-year-old-girl who featured on the late Mbuya Madhuve’s popular music video Ndega Ndega as a dancer and backing vocalist, is determined to revive the singer’s musical legacy. Sasha, real name Miriam Lishomwa — niece to the late mbira player Edna Chizema aka Mbuya Madhuve — started working with the late singer when…
