adminIt’s DStv’s premium open week
Jonathan Mbiriyamveka TV FOR most people without the premium bouquets Christmas must have come too early this year after DStv opened premium channels without charging them. Well, it is now…
Renamo bandits living in a time warp
The return to the Mozambican bush by some misguided, and rather inane, elements of Renamo obviously requires the Zimbabwean military to be on alert, as Defence Minister Sydney Sekeramayi, last…
Forgetting the British empire’s holocaust
George Monbiot IN his book Late Victorian Holocausts, published in 2001, Mike Davis tells the story of famines that killed between 12 and 29 million Indians. These people were, he…
IDC hunting for buyer
The Industrial Development Corporation is still hunting for an investor to take over its 49 percent shareholding in Bulawayo-based manufacturing firm, Zimbabwe Grain Bag. ZGB was formed in 1986 as…
Red carpet for Mandela film premiere
JOHANNESBURG. — Bright lights and rolling cameras lined the red carpet at the premiere of the film Mandela: “Long Walk to Freedom” at The Zone in Rosebank, north of Johannesburg…
Zimbabwe gears to host global pageant
Brenda Phiri Entertainment Reporter FORTY contestants from around the world will converge on the Harare International Conference Centre as the country hosts Miss Heritage World for the first time on…
Chigiyo music is alive
Fred Zindi Music LOVEMORE CHIKWIRI, an employee of the Commercial Bank of Zimbawe in charge of training, grew up in Kwekwe. He boasts of dancing to Chigiyo music during his…
GMB owes farmers US$4m
THE Grain Marketing Board owes wheat and maize farmers at least US$3,2 million after paying part of the debt owed to them. Government recently released at least US$9 million to…
Gold dips on Fed uncertainty
SINGAPORE. — Gold eased for a sixth straight session yesterday to trade near two-week lows as renewed uncertainty over when the US Federal Reserve will scale back its stimulus measures…
Anti-diamonds lobby of shame
Tichaona Zindoga The forthcoming Kimberly Process Certification Scheme meeting in South Africa and the major coup that Zimbabwe scored in recently hosting the Antwerp Diamond Corporation delegation which will open…