Magacha forms Pan-African gospel group
HARARE - Gospel musician Sebastian Magacha has assembled a 15-member Pan-African group featuring several nationalities. According to Magacha, the praise and worship group that has been fittingly named...
View ArticleMacheso farewell gig at Pamuzinda
HARARE - Sungura star Alick Macheso will bid his fans farewell at Pamuzinda tonight before leaving for South Africa where he will stage several shows. The musician’s farewell party will also feature...
View ArticleNzira's son on dancehall crusade
HARARE - Madzibaba Godfrey Nzira, the late spiritual leader of a Johanne Masowe Wechishanu faction who died in October 2011, will always be associated with the 42-year sentence he was slapped with for...
View ArticleMalaysia plane: No debris found as search day ends
KUALA LUMPUR - The second day of an international search for a missing Malaysian airliner has concluded without any sightings of debris in the southern Indian Ocean. The operation is due to start...
View ArticlePatients owe Harare Central Hospital $16m
HARARE - Harare Central Hospital (HCH) is owed $16 million by patients and is struggling to recover the debt amid revelations that clients were giving false residential addresses. HCH board chairman...
View ArticleDevolve power: Chikwinya
HARARE - Government should immediately establish provincial councils to devolve power and promote development in the provinces, an opposition legislator has said. Provincial and metropolitan councils...
View ArticleEx-DeMbare captain drags ex-wife to court
HARARE - Leo Kurauzvione, the former Dynamos Football Club captain, was yesterday granted protection from his estranged wife who harasses him in public. The former Warriors midfielder had claimed that...
View ArticleGumbura guards' trial opens
HARARE - The trial of Independent End Time Message founder Robert Martin Gumbura’s security guards, who denied police entry into his house, opened yesterday. Simbarashe Musiyiwa and Tendai Mandevani,...
View ArticleTB Joshua's location prophecy of missing jet
LAGOS - Nigerian celebrity preacher TB Joshua has directed Malaysian authorities and other institutions looking for the missing Malaysian plane to look “between Indonesia and the Indian Ocean.”...
View ArticleTrain rams into Mercedes ML
HARARE - A motorist escaped uninjured yesterday morning when a train struck her Mercedes Benz ML vehicle at a rail-road crossing in Harare. The accident occurred shortly before 6am along Chiremba Road...
View ArticleNhema started well but...
HARARE - Youth, Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment minister Francis Nhema began his term on a high note after giving indications that the “one size fits all” approach to indigenisation that his...
View ArticleMedical aid scandal
HARARE - Shocking details have emerged that medical aid societies are discriminating against the ageing population, with people reaching retirement age not allowed to join any of the societies’...
View ArticleAfrican lawmakers defend democratic rule
HARARE - Not so long ago, Africa’s coup plotters and autocrats felt confident they could get a pass from their fellow rulers elsewhere on the continent. In recent months, however, as military officers...
View ArticleFlood victims struggle to adjust to camp conditions
HARARE - Four young men sit on a rock with their eyes fixed on the dry plains of Chingwizi transit camp. Their hopes of a bright day quickly fade as reality hits them. Each day they rise to...
View ArticleTobacco farmers see rebound in leaf prices
HARARE - In years gone by, the chant of the tobacco auctioneer was music to farmers’ ears. That chant, however, had increasingly become discordant following the drop in tobacco quantity, quality and...
View ArticleFlight MH370: Chinese satellites locate 'large object' in Indian Ocean
BEIJING - A large piece of floating debris has been spotted in the remote Indian Ocean search zone for missing flight MH370, it was revealed yesterday. Chinese satellites picked up signs of a...
View ArticleAfrexim injects $100m into economy
HARARE - Finance minister, Patrick Chinamasa is pinning hopes of fixing the liquidity crunch biting Zimbabwe on Africa Export and Import Bank (Afrexim Bank)’s $100 million interbank loan facility...
View ArticleZapu to consider MDC coalition proposal
BULAWAYO - Opposition Zapu party is willing to engage the MDC led by Morgan Tsvangirai provided both parties agree on terms and conditions of the re-engagement, the party’s alternate...
View Article$20m youth fund scam
HARARE - The unfolding scandal surrounding a $20 million private and public sector fund to “empower youths” is symptomatic of Zanu PF’s failed policies and culture of looting, analysts said yesterday....
View ArticleOpen letter to Mahachi
EDITOR — Having discussed on World Happiness Day with young people and working with young people in Mbare District since 2010, we have on numerous occasions discussed the issue of service delivery and...
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