Ashley MoyoSENIOR LIFESTYLE WRITERmoyoa@dailynews.co.zw THIRTY-EIGHT local and international films are set to be screened at the 20th edition of the International Images Film Festival (IIFF) for Women. The event will take place in Harare from today till December 2 and from December 8 to 11 in Bulawayo. “The films that range from short fiction to…
Ashley MoyoSENIOR LIFESTYLE WRITERmoyoa@dailynews.co.zw NYAU masquerade dances, which not so long ago were associated with fear and terror, are increasingly finding favour on the local entertainment scene. Music star Baba Harare, recently collaborated with Nyau masquerade dancers on his hit titled Ahee, off his latest album Prove them wrong, which has garnered close to a…
ZIMBABWE, like the rest of the world, has to come up with new strategies to fight gender-based violence (GBV), especially against women and girls. The media in the country has reported several cases of rape, assaults and other ills against women and girls despite several eff orts and measures put in place by the government…
By Ketty Nyoni and Brandon Josphat THE government is taking urgent new steps to deal with resurgent price hikes of basic goods — including striving to provide more foreign currency to productive sectors and pursuing unscrupulous traders. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, the permanent secretary for the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, Thomas Utete…
ZIMPLATS yesterday commissioned and handed over two classroom blocks and ablution facilities that were constructed at a cost of about US$380 000 to Turf Primary School in Mhondoro Ngezi District as part of its corporate and social responsibility initiatives. The project is part of the country’s largest platinum producer’s efforts to decongest the elementary school…
Nyasha KunyiswaSENIOR STAFF WRITERkunyiswan@dailynews.co.zw THE Harare City Council (HCC) says its infectious diseases hospitals have been operating without tuberculosis (TB) drugs for the last two months. Speaking to the Daily News at the weekend, HCC epidemiologist Michael Vhere said they were expecting to start receiving drugs this week from the National Pharmaceutical Company (NatPharm). “As…
THE Midlands State University has established a 10th faculty, the Built Environment, Art and Design, which aims to address skills shortages identified…
Brandon Josphat SENIOR STAFF WRITER josphatbl@dailynews.co.zw AUTHORITIES say they are seized with improving working conditions and remuneration of civil servants in order to avert brain drain in the country. This comes as the country has, over the past years, been hit by brain drain as professionals have left the nation in pursuit of better opportunities,…
A RECORD 100 electoral cases were filed against the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) before and after the August general elections by aggrieved…
By Ashley Moyo SENIOR LIFESTYLE WRITER moyoa@dailynews.co.zw MUSIC star Jah Signal says it is an honour to be part of the potentially explosive HCM All White Festival set for December 2 in Bulawayo. The event will be headlined by popular South African rapper Cassper Nyovest. “It is an honour. It shows promoters and fans strongly…
