adminFemale pilot gets Africa’s first drone licence
JOHANNESBURG. — A female pilot has been awarded the first drone licence on the continent, the South African Civil Aviation Authority said yesterday.
Farmers decry tough tobacco season
Elita Chikwati Agriculture Reporter The 2015 flue-cured tobacco selling season ended last weekend, with farmers describing it as one of the toughest in recent years. Drought and floods affected the…
Aussies crush England
LONDON. — A rampant Australian pace attack ripped out a feeble England for 103 to seal a crushing 405-run win in the second Ashes test at Lord’s yesterday and level…
Chitungwiza crusade wow congregants
Entertainment Reporter The three-day Mega Miracle Crusade which took place in Chitungwiza at the weekend which attracted top gospel musicians Charles and Olivia Charamba, Blessing Shumba and Bethan Pasinawako, among…
High expectations for ‘Ziyanda’ movie
Brenda Phiri Entertainment Reporter Expectations for the success of upcoming film “Ziyanda” are high with the producers of the movie aiming to score gold on the international market.
Chanter spurns Zim dancehall feuds
Brenda Phiri Entertainment Reporter WITH different “clans” such as “Maninja”, “Mabhanditi”, “Masoja”, “HKD” and “The Conquering Family” claiming a stake of supremacy in the Zimdancehall space, it seems only the…
Cosby admits paying women to keep affairs secret
NEW YORK. — Bill Cosby reportedly said in sworn testimony a decade ago he had paid women after sex to keep the affairs from his wife and suggested he was…
Comesa introduces new rules on mergers
Tinashe Makichi recently in Livingstone Zambia The COMESA Competition Commission has introduced new thresholds on mergers in the region, which stipulate that all companies with a combined turnover of $50…
Hove: People’s poet went rogue
Elliot Ziwira @The Bookstore HE is dead, sure he died; he is surely dead, my brother. Look his cadaver lies silently in that posture of death; motionless; silenced and defeated.
Chidzero: Illustrious son of the soil
Comrade Bernard Thomas Gibson Chidzero, a veteran politician, illustrious intellectual, writer and an international economist, was born on 1 July, 1927 and died on August8 2002 at the age 75.…