© GOODNESS and Mercy Ministries founder and leader Tapiwa Freddy’s latest studio album titled Kastep Kenyasha is set for launch at 7 Arts Theatre in Avondale, Harare on July 5. Produced by Lyton Ngolomi at Ngolomi Studios, the album comes hot on the heels of the release of a video Chikuru Kudzoka — a bonus…
AS THE government battles to contain growing uneasiness among ordinary people and its workers, the nation’s biggest teachers’ union — the Zimbabwe Teachers Association (Zimta) — has warned that things could get worse in schools if today’s planned talks fail to yield positives, in what could be yet another setback for the under-pressure authorities. [GoogleAd]…
PEOPLE from all walks of life in the country’s second largest city yesterday converged to mark the 125th anniversary of Bulawayo which was first declared a town in 1894 by early colonial settlers. Known as City of Kings, Bulawayo was on June 1, 1894 declared a town by Leander Starr Jameson before it gained city…
ZIMBABWE Association of Doctors for Human Rights (ZADHR) former chairperson Rutendo Bonde, 41, has died. Bonde passed away on Sunday night at her home in Chegutu. In a statement, ZADHR said it was saddened by Bonde’s death as she made significant contributions towards the fight for human rights. “ZADHR and the medical profession join the…
FORMER Zanu PF secretary for administration Didymus Mutasa is set to lose household goods over outstanding legal fees. Mutasa, who was recently re-admitted into the ruling party, owes $26 000 legal fees to Nyakutombwa Mugabe Legal Counsel after he engaged the firm in 2015. [GoogleAd] In 2017, the Sherriff of the High Court attached Mutasa’s…
EXILED former Higher and Tertiary Education minister Jonathan Moyo, pictured, has accused the Emmerson Mnangagwa-led government of withholding his terminal benefits. Moyo fled the country in November 2017 after Mnangagwa took over power from former president Robert Mugabe with the help of the army. Mugabe had ruled the country for 37 years. [GoogleAd] Moyo had…
PRESSURE is mounting on President Emmerson Mnangagwa to engage his bitter rival Nelson Chamisa in talks, with the United States becoming the latest nation to add its voice to growing calls for dialogue between the two leaders. [GoogleAd] The US embassy’s representative to Zimbabwe Brian Nicholas told Foreign Affairs minister Sibusiso Moyo on Monday that…
GOVERNMENT will be strengthening the powers of the Competition and Tariffs Commission (CTM) so that it can keep in check, companies and individuals who are taking advantage of the economic situation, a Cabinet minister has said. [GoogleAd] Industry minister Mangaliso Ndlovu told a post-Cabinet meeting briefing yesterday in the capital that these people, however, operate…
THE High Court has thrown out an application by former Cabinet minister Ignatius Chombo compelling Harare Magistrates Courts clerk to release his passport. Chombo had approached the court after magistrate Lazini Ncube dismissed an application where he sought to compel the clerk of court to obey a court order for the travel document’s release issued…
NATIONAL Pharmaceutical Company (Natpharm) general manager, Newman Madzikwa who stands accused of corruptly hiking drug handling fees by 11 percent yesterday took the stand and maintained his innocence. Initially, Madzikwa who had been charged with two counts of criminal abuse of office, was acquitted at the close of the State’s case in the charge where…
