Stop farm invasions
HARARE - The Zanu PF government must now put a halt to a spate of fresh farm invasions by their supporters. The government must evict squatters who have occupied white-owned farms amid increasing...
View ArticleNepotism destroying Zanu PF: Sibanda
HARARE - War veterans’ leader Jabulani Sibanda says the ruling Zanu PF party has gone off the rails owing to endemic nepotism and corruption. In an interview with the Daily News last weekend, Sibanda...
View Article'Let's have fresh polls'
HARARE - Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has written to Sadc demanding fresh elections, claiming that last year’s polls were rigged by President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF. In a damning letter to the...
View ArticleIsrael launches Gaza strikes following rocket fire
TEL AVIV - Israel's military says it has carried out air strikes in the Gaza Strip in response to fresh rocket fire, hours before a ceasefire was set to expire. "Terror targets" were hit after three...
View ArticleKenyan prisoner graduates in law
NAIROBI - A maximum security prison in Kenya has been the unusual setting for a ceremony awarding a diploma from the University of London. Peter Ouko, an inmate at Kamiti prison in Nairobi, has...
View ArticleKatsande exits Nestle
HARARE - Nestle Zimbabwe Limited (Nestle) managing director Kumbirai Katsande is set to step down from the helm of the Swiss multinational local unit at the end of September after a four-year stint....
View ArticleNash Mphepo bags acting gong
HARARE - Actor Nash Mphepo has bagged an Ecrans Noirs festival award for the best male actor in the film, Dust and Fortunes. Mphepo, 36, is also a National Art and Merit Award (Nama) winner for best...
View ArticleCarl takes stand-up comedy to Mutare
HARARE - This weekend, stand-up comedy goes to Mutare as Carl Joshua Ncube and his band of merry men take their #FeelGoodZimbabwe comedy tour to the eastern highlands. Backed by rising star Comedy Q...
View ArticleManhunt for Bev's doorman
HARARE - Police have launched a manhunt for Beverly ‘Bev’ Sibanda’s bodyguard who on Thursday robbed her and vanished with her gate takings. Bev was performing at Federal Nite Club in Warren Park D...
View ArticleDivorcee convicted of statutory rape
MUTARE - A 20-year-old divorcee has been convicted of having sex with a 14-year-old girl. Takudzwa Mutiyabo of Mundembe Village in Zimunya had been convicted on his own guilty plea by Mutare...
View ArticleJailed car thief gets 10 more years
HARARE - A car thief currently serving an effective 18 years in prison for stealing cars, has been slapped with another 10-year prison term. This was after he voluntarily implicated himself on two...
View ArticleVendors, kombis get 30-day grace period
HARARE - Vendors and kombi operators have been given a 30-day grace period to register with Harare City Council (HCC). HCC town clerk Tendai Mahachi told a press conference yesterday that registration...
View ArticleAB Communications bids for Faya FM licence
GWERU - AB Communications CEO Susan Makore yesterday was taken to task by residents here over its plan to set up a commercial radio station in the city at a public hearing for Faya FM. The public...
View ArticleDisabled people demand more say
HARARE - The adoption of a new constitution by Zimbabwe last year provided a ray of hope to thousands of people living with disability, who have for long felt discriminated. Compared to the Lancaster...
View ArticleLet's honour heroes while they live
HARARE - There is no doubting the immense contribution to the Zimbabwean arts industry by journalist, businessman and musician — Paul Brickhill. Brickhill is the proprietor of The Book Café, the music...
View ArticleLocal govt legislation review a joke
EDITOR — When I first heard that the UNDP was acting as technical support to the ministry of Local Government which was reviewing Zimbabwe’s local government legislation, I was excited. Local...
View ArticleCABS asset base surges 21 percent
HARARE - Old Mutual’s mortgage lending unit Central African Building Society (CABS)’s asset base increased by 21 percent to $694 million in the half year to June 2014 up from $574 million recorded in...
View ArticleBNC profits to jump 45 percent: Report
HARARE - EFE Securities has tipped Bindura Nickel Corporation (BNC) to increase its profit by 45 percent in 2015 to $34,3 million up from $23,7 million recorded this year due to an anticipated rise in...
View ArticleIt's show time in Harare
HARARE - Upcoming musicians Mike Mopo and Herbert Majeke will entertain revellers today at the on-going Harare Agricultural Show which kicked off on Wednesday and will run until August 30. Tomorrow,...
View ArticleByo group booted out of Chibuku Road to Fame
HARARE - Sounds of Universe, the band that was scheduled to represent Bulawayo Metropolitan Province at this year’s Chibuku Road to Fame national finals set for September 27, has been disqualified...
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