ZANU PF won 20 out of 23 contested local council seats in last week’s by-elections, while two former Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) Harare councillors retained their seats after contesting as independent candidates. In a notice yesterday, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) chief elections officer, Utloile Silaigwana, confirmed Zanu PF won one council seat in…
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has finally won the long-running battle of removing marauding politically-linked space barons who had turned the popular 5th Avenue into an illegal vending site by wantonly parcelling out vending bays. This comes at a time that the local authority a fortnight ago issued a combined statement with the government on…
By Ashley Moyo POPULAR songbird Hope Masike is scheduled to launch her fourth book at Victoria Falls Hotel today. Titled Our Sacred Place, the singer focuses on love. “Our Sacred Place is a poetry and short story book inspired by The Song of Solomon and written with love. I’ve nicknamed it the love bible. This…
NATIONAL Arts Merit Awards (Nama) nominees are set to be announced today ahead of the 22nd Nama ceremony to be held at Zimbabwe International Exhibition Centre in Bulawayo. The country’s premier arts awards, this year running under the theme “Kwa22,” will see artists being honoured in categories such as Music, Dance, Literary Arts, Visual Arts,…
THE Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board (TIMB) is hunting for a new chief executive officer (CEO) following the dismissal of the then CEO Meanwell Gudu last year by the board. Gudu was suspended in 2022 before he was fired last year over US$2 million fraud allegations. Emmanuel Matsvaire, the head of business development, has been…
A HARARE Institute of Technology (HIT) software developer has been charged of stealing $24 million from the university after substituting the institution’s banking account with his own. Arnold Chifamba, 26, was arraigned before Harare magistrate Nyaradzo Manokore who granted him US$100 bail. Chifamba will return to court on April 16. The court heard that the…
ZIMBABWEANS hoping to see the opposition dislodging Zanu PF from power will have to wait much longer as there is no chance of that happening any time soon. So says notable politician, Godfrey Tsenengamu, who also asserts that former Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader, Nelson Chamisa, will forever be haunted by his alleged “political…
FORMER Zengeza West MP and the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) senior official Job Sikhala has quit the opposition party. Addressing a press conference in Harare yesterday, Sikhala, who was released from remand prison last week after spending nearly 600 days incarcerated, said he was instead in the process of forming a National People’s Democratic…
AUTHORITIES say they are engaging with local and international investors to revive the urban passenger trains, popularly known as freedom trains, in order to decongest traffic in cities and towns. Responding to questions in the Senate yesterday, Transport deputy minister Joshua Sacco said plans of revamping the passenger trains in major cities and towns were…
By Cloud Fusire fusirec@dailynews.co.zw SPORTS minister Kirsty Coventry has reassured the country that the giant National Sports Stadium will be ready to host international matches when the second round of the 2026 World Cup qualifiers resume in June. This comes after the Warriors ended their two-year international exile by hosting their home fixture in the…
