WITH Zimbabwe’s political crisis deepening amid growing calls for an inclusive dialogue, senior consultant with the International Crisis Group Piers Pigou, told the Daily News on Sunday last week that South Africa must work with the country’s all-weather friends, China and Russia, to find solutions. Below are the excerpts. Q: What is your assessment of…
Comedian Charles Mirisi, aka Marabha, has found new love and is in the process of formalising the affair, the Daily News on Sunday reports. The lucky woman is 20-year-old Anisha Chigasa. “This lady (Anisha) is my girlfriend. We have plans to formalise the relationship and settle down,” Marabha said without giving much detail on how…
OF LATE there has been a wave of interpretations of the government’s stance on land reform, with most suggesting the President Emmerson Mnangagwa administration is reversing one of the key gains of the post-independence era. Although the government has been very clear on what is currently happening, there is a deliberate ploy to misinform the…
OPINION BLACK EDWARD WHILE trying to come up with a suitable headline for this opinion piece, a sub editor typed: Can Zim political parties change for the better? The chief sub editor read it, shook his head and then explained Betteridge’s law of headlines to the “sub”. This law is an adage that states:…
GOSPEL diva Fungai Zvakavapano-Mashavave’s penchant for fine cars is conspicuous! And she doesn’t brag about it! Living in the leafy suburb of Borrowdale in the capital, the songbird seems to be enjoying life to the fullest, if material things are to be taken into consideration. Time and again she changes luxury cars. Recently, she posted…
FOR a long time questions have been raised as to why footballers always opt for the rather predictable route of going into coaching upon retirement instead of aiming for more influential leadership roles in administration. Generally, after hanging up their boots, most local ex-footballers choose to go into coaching or at times take the game’s…
THREE weeks ago, President Emmerson Mnangagwa unveiled the National Tourism Recovery and Growth Strategy, which targets to raise $600 million in rescue packages to prop up firms affected by Covid-19’s national lockdown and grow the industry to a US$5 billion sector by 2025. In an interview with our correspondent Shame Makoshori, Tourism minister Mangaliso Ndhlovu…
FOR the better part of her early life, Sibekezelo Ncube envisaged a professional life in track and field as she was a talented sprinter. Between 2012 and 2015, Ncube was a sprinting protégée at Msiteli High School in Mpopoma as she used to represent her institution at provincial and national competitions. Blessed with a towering…
Blessings Mashaya SENIOR STAFF WRITER mashayab@dailynews.co.zw CIVIL society groups are pushing Parliament to amend laws to enable young people to access reproductive health services. Appearing before the parliamentary portfolio committee on Health this week, Diana Mailosi — who was speaking on behalf of civil society groups — said there was an urgent need to deal…
THE High Court has thrown out a bid to assume directorship of Eddies Pfugari (Pvt) Ltd by the late founder Edward Nyanyiwa’s daughter, Henrietta, on an urgent basis and struck the matter off the roll. Henrietta and Stern Mufara, who was the executor of her late mother, Midlred Nyanyiwa’s estate, had sued Eddies Pfugari, Clever…
