Zima finally announces dates
Bongani Ndlovu Showbiz Correspondent ORGANISERS of the Zimbabwe Music Awards have set February 25 as the date for the awards ceremony which will be held at the Harare International Conference Centre. The…
Winky D, Jah Prayzah rule the roost at Nama…Drama as Cal_Vin, Jnr Brown fight
Melissa Mpofu in Harare THEATRICAL production – Chimbwido Girl of War – was the biggest winner at the 2015 National Arts Merit Awards (Nama) held at 7 Arts Theatre in…
Museveni slams ‘partisan’ ICC
Kampala – Uganda’s veteran ruler Yoweri Museveni, who is standing for re-election on Thursday, has said he is in favour of his country pulling out of the “partisan” International Criminal…
Saudi Arabia ‘intercepts’ Yemen Scud missile
Riyadh — Saudi Arabia intercepted a Scud missile fired towards the kingdom by Iran-backed rebels in Yemen, the Riyadh-led coalition fighting the insurgents has said. The official Saudi SPA news…
ANC outrage over Zuma’s Nkandla U-turn
President Jacob Zuma has angered senior figures in the ANC after ignoring advice from its national executive committee to take the public protector’s Nkandla report on judicial review. This week it…
Obama, Putin agree to implement Syria deal
US President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin have agreed to cooperate to implement the Syria agreement reached during talks in Munich, Germany, the Kremlin says. The Kremlin issued…
Trump gets bitter in Republican debate
Donald Trump, his face red with emotion, lashed out at rivals Jeb Bush and Ted Cruz on Saturday at the most acrimonious debate to date between Republican presidential candidates, shouting…
Al-Shabaab claims responsibility for plane bomb
Mogadishu – Somalia’s Islamic extremist rebels, al-Shabaab, say they carried out the bombing of a commercial passenger jet earlier this month that blew a hole in the fuselage, sucking out…
Technology gap haunts leather industry
Oliver Kazunga Senior Business Reporter— THE leather sector in Bulawayo is struggling to exploit opportunities in the regional and international markets due to lack of modern technology. In an interview on the…
REA requires $300m for rural public institutions
Business Reporter THE Rural Electrification Agency (REA) needs $300 million to electrify about 3,700 rural public institutions that have not been electrified since the establishment of the agency in 2002. Since…








