Ashley MoyoENTERTAINMENT WRITERmoyoa@dailynews.co.zw GOROMONZI-BASED dance outfit Makarekare is confident of winning the Chibuku Neshamwari Traditional Dance national competition for the third time in Harare tomorrow.The Mbende-Jerusarema outfit, which is representing Mashonaland East, was the national champion in 2009 and 2015. “We are so confident that we are going to lift the trophy for the third…
WE CAUTIOUSLY welcome the news that the cholera outbreak, which hit most parts of the country early this year, resulting in 19 confirmed and 61 suspected deaths and over 3 700 cases, has now been brought under control. In a story we carried in this paper yesterday, Harare City Council epidemiologist Michael Vere and Masvingo…
A BOTSWANA-BASED driver, who allegedly stole over 700 litres of diesel from a truck he was driving before selling it, has appeared at the Harare Magistrates’ Courts facing theft charges. Dimpho Mthombeni, 36, of Francistown, was arraigned before magistrate Dennis Mangosi before he was remanded in custody. The accused is also facing a second charge…
PRESIDENTIAL hopeful Saviour Kasukuwere will get to know whether he will contest in next month’s polls or not as the Supreme Court is expected to deliver its judgment on his appeal today. The former Cabinet minister and Zanu PF national commissar, who is in exile in South Africa, is seeking the Supreme Court to nullify…
THE chief executive and chairperson of Geo Pomona Waste Management, Delish Nguwaya, has urged Russian investors to invest in Zimbabwe as the country has created an enabling environment for foreigners to conduct their business. Addressing top Russian business executives at the Exporters Club on the sidelines of the Russia-Africa summit in St Petersburg, Russia, on…
Ketty NyoniSTAFF WRITERnyonik@dailynews.co.zw IT IS a matter of time before Zimbabwe has its first woman president, the leader of the United Zimbabwe Alliance (UZA), Elisabeth Valerio, says. Speaking last night on independent national television station 3Ktv’s popular news and current affairs programme, Vantage, Valerio said it was very disappointing, in this regard, that fewer women…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday said Zimbabwe was food-secure but was grateful for an offer of free grain from Russian President Vladimir Putin…
THE High Court has dismissed an application filed by the Labour, Economists and African Democrats (Lead) president, Linda Masarira, in which she was suing the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) for rejecting her nomination papers last month. When the Nomination Court sat on June 21, Masarira tried to pay the US$20 000 presidential candidate fee using…
Yvonne Ncube and Brighton MuronzereyiSTAFF WRITERS THE opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) suffered a major blow yesterday after Bulawayo High Court judge Justice Bongani Ndlovu barred the party’s 12 aspiring National Assembly candidates from taking part in the August 23 elections for filing their papers out of time. This comes after 12 Zanu PF…
THE Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC) has embarked on a citizens’ rights awareness campaign ahead of the forthcoming August 23 harmonised elections. The campaign is running under the theme My Vote, My Right, My Country and underscores the constitutional rights of citizens to actively exercise their right to vote and to participate in peaceful, free,…
