© PREPARATIONS for this year’s edition of the Zimbabwe Inter-schools Mbira Festival are at an advanced stage, organisers say. The event — meant to promote the traditional instruments among youngsters — is scheduled for May 24 at Mukuvisi Woodlands in the capital. [GoogleAd] “National Arts Council of Zimbabwe director Nicholas Moyo will be the guest of…
© LOCAL Government deputy minister Jennifer Mhlanga and Harare mayor Hebert Gomba yesterday joined Vapostori from Johanne Masowe Echishanu in song as they received a consignment of clothes and blankets from the church. [GoogleAd] Led by Madzibaba Moses Gwasira of Highfield Gwanzura shrine, the Vapostori handed over the goods meant to assist victims of Cyclone…
© LATE music superstar Oliver Mtukudzi’s widow Daisy and a relative have reportedly been made co-executors to his estate. Reports are that the family met at the Master of the High Court yesterday to choose the executor following the registration of the late musician’s will. [GoogleAd] They were also checking the authenticity of the will,…
© CASTLE Tankard winner PEGGSON and jockey Brendon McNaughton will team up again in the 2019 OK Grand Challenge hot on the heels of their recent success. Peggson will be hoping to make it a double after the gelding was included in the final field for the OK Grand Challenge Grade Two horse race yesterday. [GoogleAd]…
© HARARE City coach Mark Harrison feels his charges could be on course for more steady performances after ending a three-game winless streak with victory over Triangle United at the weekend. The Sunshine Boys had suffered two defeats to Black Rhinos and CAPS United and drawn with bottom club Bulawayo Chiefs in their last three Castle…
© LIVERPOOL forward Mohamed Salah headlines the 25-man Egypt provisional squad for the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) announced by Pharaohs coach Javier Aguirre yesterday. Egypt are in the same Group A together with Zimbabwe, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) for the finals that are set to start on June 21 until…
© THE prices of petrol and diesel are set to hit the roof from today onwards — with potentially dire consequences for the cost of living in the country which is already sky-high — after the government announced yesterday that it would stop subsidising the country’s fuel traders, the Daily News can report. [GoogleAd] This comes…
© FORMER war veterans’ leader Jabulani Sibanda is keeping his cards close to his chest after dropping out of the Zanu PF Bulawayo province’s chairmanship race at the last minute. [GoogleAd] Sibanda who had been tipped to take over the provincial chair, pulled out of the race after fellow liberation war fighters of the 1970s bush…
© A PARLIAMENTARY committee has demanded the sacking of one of the senior executives at the Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara), the Daily News can report. [GoogleAd] During yesterday’s hearing, Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (Pac) said it boggles the mind that the Zinara board has kept the parastatal’s finance director Simon Taranhike despite him being complicit…
© FOLLOWING the translation of the Constitution into 15 indigenous languages, government is now rolling out programmes to raise awareness about the supreme law of the land in various parts of the country. [GoogleAd] Yesterday, Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi launched the Constitution Education Awareness and Dissemination Strategic Document in Harare, which will guide the efforts. This…
