Mangoma where do you stand?
HARARE - His name is Elton Mangoma, Deputy treasurer general of the Tsvangiai-led MDC, member of the National Council and Standing Committee and former minister of Energy during the government of...
View ArticleJailed cop's appeal hearing deferred
HARARE - Police assistant commissioner Gideon Baloyi remained in jail after his bail appeal failed to proceed at the High Court yesterday. The matter could not be heard because prosecutor Sharon Fero...
View ArticleIncest siblings spared jail
HARARE - A Harare magistrate has sentenced Dzivarasekwa siblings who engaged in a sexual affair and bore a child to an 18-month wholly suspended prison sentence. Magistrate Aidonia Masawi sentenced...
View Article'Thumbs up to $2,5m NatPharm vote'
HARARE - The $2,5 million budgetary allocation to NatPharm will close the drug provision gap that has left Zimbabwe largely dependent on donors and middlemen for medication, Health and Child Care...
View Article'Scrap roadblock spot fines'
HARARE - Commuter operators have called for the scrapping of spot fines at roadblocks, blaming this for pervasive corruption on the roads. Cosmas Mbonjani, chairperson of Greater Harare Association of...
View ArticleZinwa mum on Mtshabezi tariffs
BULAWAYO - The Zimbabwe National Water Authority (Zinwa) is yet to disclose its charges to Bulawayo City Council ever since the local authority started drawing water from Mtshabezi Dam last year....
View ArticleMangoma guns for Tsvangirai's post
HARARE - Elton Mangoma, the MDC deputy treasurer-general, says he is ready to become the next MDC president if elected. In a wide-ranging interview with the Daily News yesterday, Mangoma, who is...
View ArticlePsmas' Dube fired
HARARE - Premier Service Medical Aid Society (Psmas) chief executive Cuthbert Dube has been fired over revelations he has been receiving outrageously high salaries. But the Psmas board yesterday...
View ArticleZBC boss in $1m scandal
HARARE - Suspended Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) chief executive officer Happison Muchechetere is embroiled in a messy $1 million scandal in which he allegedly inflated the purchase price of...
View ArticleDancehall, urban grooves should use live bands
HARARE - Dancehall and urban grooves musicians should up their game and engage live bands if they are to survive on the local market. While most of the dancehall and urban grooves musicians record...
View Article15 urban groove artists meet
HARARE - Urban grooves music acts will meet tomorrow, Wednesday in what will be a clash of stars as the gig brings together the cream in the genre. A total of 15 urban grooves music acts, among them...
View Article35 dancers date City Sports Bar
HARARE - Dancers Association of Zimbabwe (Daz) is officially opening year 2014 for dancers tonight in the capital. The event to be held at Harare’s City Sports Bar is meant to "officially commission...
View ArticleTehn Diamond speaks on 'Simudza Gumbo'
HARARE - Hip-hop star, Tehn Diamond says his new release Simudza Gumbo featuring Dhadza D is all about what people can do for the country instead of what the country can do for them. “My new single is...
View ArticleHerbs: Nature's phamarcy
HARARE - Very few people associate herbs with the Catholic church, let alone nuns. But Sister Yullita Chirawu, 55, of the Little Children of our Blessed Lady (LCBL) has managed to bring herbal...
View ArticleHubby accuses wife of bed-hopping
HARARE - A Harare man has accused his pregnant wife of bed-hopping, alleging some of his spouse’s boyfriends were claiming paternity for her pregnancy. Gwemende Mugove hauled his wife Nomatter Shoko...
View Article'Tumbling GDP escalates deaths'
HARARE - Rising poverty has triggered an increase in deaths in Zimbabwe, according to Zimbabwe Economic Policy Analysis and Research Unit (Zeparu). Zeparu’s research papers are the first documented...
View ArticleTycoon in gay storm
HARARE - Controversial businessman, Kamal Khalfan is engaged in a bitter contest with his compatriot Thamer Al Shanfari over a German national who wanted to invest in the country but is now caught...
View ArticleEmployer beds gardener's wife
HARARE - An emotionally charged gardener thoroughly bashed his employer after he caught him being intimate with his wife. Martin Sibindi was allegedly caught pants down with Farai Vheremu’s wife in...
View ArticleRapist jailed 15 years
HARARE - A Kuwadzana man will spend the next 15 years in jail for raping an eight-year-old girl. Takunda Handina, 30, was sentenced to 18 years in jail by Harare magistrate Sandra Mpindu after being...
View ArticleChitown saga takes new twist
CHITUNGWIZA - The Chitungwiza housing saga took a new twist yesterday after it emerged that one of the members of the land audit team was involved in illegally parcelling out housing stands. This...
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