AUTHORITIES yesterday suspended the operating licences of two bus operators, Zebra Kiss and Rimbi Travel and Tours, after a road traffic accident that occurred along the Harare-Nyamapanda Highway, Mashonaland East, on Tuesday, leading to the death of a passenger and injuring scores. Transport minister Felix Mhona said in a statement that the suspensions were with…
Ashley Moyo moyoa@dailynews.co.zw AWARD-WINNING musicians Pah Chihera and Terry Afrika have combined forces to form a group called The Hera Duo. The two hitmakers, who collaborated on the hits Sarura Wako and Kangoma six years ago, settled on the name, The Hera Duo in recognition of their Mhofu/ Museyamwa totem. “It is the coming together of Terry Afrika and…
Emmanuel MarambeSPORTS WRITERmarambee@dailynews.co.zw THE proverbial lightning struck twice at Harare Sports Club yesterday as youthful wicket-keeper batsman Clive Madande struck a boundary off the last delivery of the day to secure Zimbabwe a sensational victory in the first ODI. Madande, who also got the winning runs in the first T20 last week, was the hero…
IT IS heartening to note the convergence of the country’s main political parties — Zanu PF, Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) and the MDC — on the paramount need for national unity and dialogue to end the country’s decades-long political and economic crises. President Emmerson Mnangagwa spent the better part of last year calling an…
THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) has introduced a “block management system” where it will embark on a door-to-door programme to ensure that all businesses comply with the tax payment and registration system. In a statement yesterday, Zimra said the door-to-door tax collection, which began early this month, would be carried out at all business premises…
POLICE Commissioner-General, Godwin Matanga, warned yesterday that law enforcement agents would not hesitate to shoot to kill violent criminals engaging in murders and armed robberies around the country. The emotional Matanga said this in Harare, at the funeral wake of Hwedza Police Station officer-in-charge, Inspector Maxwell Hove, 43 — who was allegedly shot and killed…
ECONET Wireless Zimbabwe and EcoCash Holdings Zimbabwe Limited made the top 100 among Africa’s top 250 companies named by the African Business magazine. Every year the African Business top 250 companies survey charts the rise of innovative,strategic and resilient African Businesses that straddle the continent and that invest billions of dollars into Africa-wide strategies to…
Rutengo Ngara THE government is planning to review its agriculture sector target for 2025 from US$8.2 billion to US$11 billion, the Daily News has confirmed. Permanent secretary in the Agriculture ministry John Basera said the upward review of the target was because the agriculture sector had managed to achieve its five-year target of US$8 billion…
SOUTH Africa-based Zimbabwean music star Enock ‘Nox’ Guni says his upcoming album to be released next month will include collaborations he did with artistes from six African countries. Nox, who rose to prominence around 2000 during the urban grooves era, did duets with artistes from Nigeria, Botswana, South Africa, Ghana and Uganda on the album…
WE don’t believe in the economics of protectionism, neither are we disciples of price controls, but we feel strongly that the negative slide of the Zimbabwean currency on the black market will have a serious devastating effect on the ordinary people. The local currency is falling against the coveted green back. As of yesterday, the…
