Another accolade for Cheso Power
HARARE - Sungura “king” Alick Macheso, whose latest album Kwatabva Mitunhu (Kure kwekure) has been described by several critics as his worst ever, claimed the top and fifth positions in the 2013 Radio...
View ArticleTime to buy, read, win again
HARARE - The second draw of the Associated Newspapers of Zimbabwe (ANZ)’s Read & Win Competition will be conducted tomorrow from 1400hrs at the Daily News head office at Trust Towers in Harare....
View ArticleHarare to patch up potholes
HARARE - Harare City Council (HCC) will in the next four weeks embark on major road maintenance as the rains have caused major damage to the roads. “The rains, which are pounding a road network...
View ArticleClerk in $13K fraud rap
HARARE - A loans clerk at Harare Municipality Savings and Credit Cooperative has been hauled before the courts for allegedly swindling the institution of over $13 000. Memory Mubvereki, 30, is facing...
View ArticleChina seeks agric cooperation with Zim
HARARE - A delegation of Chinese agriculture experts is in the country for a 15-day feasibility study on the future of agriculture cooperation between Beijing and Harare. The team of professionals...
View ArticleCivil servants demand promised increment
HARARE - President Robert Mugabe’s promises for a pay hike to government workers was a “high sounding nothing,” civil servants said yesterday. Mugabe promised to review salaries of civil servants to...
View ArticleGovt introduces 9-year primary education
HARARE - Lazarus Dokora, minister of Primary and Secondary Education, has announced the introduction of four years of compulsory infant education, meaning nine years of primary education for...
View ArticleInside Gumbura's empire
HARARE - Judgement in Independent End Time Message founder Robert Martin Gumbura’s rape charges could not be delivered yesterday after Harare regional magistrate Hosea Mujaya asked for an...
View ArticleListen to farmer groups
HARARE - As the rains continue to pound on the land and peri-urban farmers working like bees in their small plots, news that the country needs to import grain to avert starvation seems a bit...
View ArticleZBC probe must be thorough
HARARE - Workers at the scandal-hit Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) must be a happy lot now that they have finally received their salaries after a seven-month delay. While the restoration of...
View ArticleWhere is the censorship board?
EDITOR — Where has the censorship board gone to in this country? Surely we need protection especially for our children against highly immoral and unethical products currently threatening to tear...
View ArticleQuotations scandalous
EDITOR — I refer to your lead article of January 5, 2014 in which your paper quotes me extensively as a family representative, commenting on the marriage relationship of Morgan Tsvangirayi. All of the...
View ArticlePlease, revive our economy
EDITOR — The start of the new year should be punctuated by new beginnings and growth, be it on our farms, the economy and on the home front. Children embarking on new journeys either at kindergarten,...
View ArticleEcoCash targets diaspora
HARARE - Zimbabwe's largest wireless network operator Econet plans to commercially launch remittance services between locals and residents in South Africa (SA) under its mobile money transfer...
View ArticleAfrAsia appoints new MD
HARARE - Afrasia Bank Zimbabwe (AfrAsia Bank) — formerly Kingdom Bank Limited — has appointed Tineyi Mawocha as managing director (MD). His appointment is with effect from January 6, 2014. Mawocha,...
View ArticleProphet Magaya's breath-taking miracles
HARARE - The last quarter of 2008 and early 2009 saw the advent of new and fast growing religious movements in the country. The subsequent years were to witness the dawn of a new era for most...
View ArticleMass exodus on the cards
HARARE - The ongoing problems that continue to plague Zimbabwe Cricket are not too dissimilar to the 10 plagues that the Egyptians experienced when the stubborn Pharaoh refused to release the...
View Article'Doc' Machikicho leaves ZC
HARARE - Financially-troubled Zimbabwe Cricket continues to lose experienced staff with the resignation last week of well-respected and long-serving national team physiotherapist Amato Machikicho....
View ArticleMangwiro wants Cooper back
HARARE - CAPS United coach Taurai Mangwiro has earmarked Mkhupali Masuku to return to the club as his first assistant coach ahead of the 2014 season. Mangwiro was left with a depleted compliment of...
View ArticleCAR leader preparing to step down: reports
BANGUI - The president of the Central African Republic, where more than a thousand people have died in recent violence, is preparing to step down. Michel Djotodia, who deposed Francois Bozize in a...
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