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HE enters The Arena posthumously. And he does so because he was a gifted artiste whose immense talent was not only a blessing for Zimbabwe, but also left a lasting legacy.
FBC Holdings will soon be asking shareholders to raise US$20 million for recapitalisation of its banking arm, FBC Bank, it has emerged.
Elvas Mari has been appointed director of the National Arts Council of Zimbabwe with effect from November 2, 2009.
A HARARE magistrate has issued a warrant of arrest against Murehwa Senator Tendai Makunde after he failed to appear in court yesterday for trial on charges of defying a court order compelling him to pay maintenance for the upkeep of his child.
"WE are in Government to grab power" was what one MDC-T functionary said at a rally soon after the party entered into the power-sharing agreement with Zanu-PF and the MDC.
ZB Financial Holdings staff investment vehicle, Finserve beneficiaries have agreed that Finserve Share Trust be wound up and ZBFH share certificates be distributed immediately in line with the audited share register.
Heavy rains that have started across the country will not take the thrill out of sungura music ace Alick Macheso's gig at Pamuzinda Highway X-scape tomorrow.
THE Fifa World Cup Trophy arrives in Harare tonight turning the Sunshine City into the focus of a globe that has already been fascinated by the hosting of the global football showcase in Africa, for the first time in its history, next year.
Load-shedding has crippled Harare's water treatment plants at Morton Jaffray and Prince Edward, resulting in erratic water supplies in and around the capital despite a Government directive against switching off strategic national installations.
A SUSPECTED case of mass hysteria has struck Nemanwa Primary School in Charumbira communal lands in Masvingo, where pupils are reportedly screaming wildly and complaining of visions of strange snake-like creatures and lions.
POLICE have arrested seven suspected members of a drug trafficking syndicate, including two Mozambicans, and recovered 1 400kg of mbanje worth about US$1,4 million.
Businessman and farmer Mr Temba Mliswa has donated 20 heifers and a bull to the Chinhoyi University of Technology for the institution to start a breeding programme at a farm allocated to it by the Government under the land reform programme.
A Harare man who was jailed for 20 months after selling firearm ammunition to members of the public has appealed against his sentence, saying that it was too severe in the circumstances.
Ordinary Level examinations begin today amid reports that school administrators are making frantic efforts to convince teachers to invigilate without compensation after the school term closes on December 4.
COMPANIES facing viability problems have laid off more than 2 000 workers this year while others have gone for over two years without paying severance packages to those retrenched, the Parliamentary Committee on Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare heard on Monday.
SADC must support and strengthen genetically modified organism detection laboratories to curb the influx of undesirable GMO products and enhance the capacity of the region to verify the GM content of food imports and exports, scientists said yesterday.
MITCHELL and Mitchell -- the exporter of horticultural produce -- is insolvent and its directors have filed an application for provisional liquidation.
FARMERS resettled under the A2 scheme who have not been benefiting from Food and Agriculture Organisation input-supported programmes can now access Government subsidised inputs.
Some 100 children under five years of age will die today in Zimbabwe, a bleak statistic that is part of new social development data released by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the Government, revealing that the situation there for women and children has deteriorated in the past five years.
ZIMBABWE will receive about US$180 million from the Global Fund to Fight HIV and Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria, with the first phase of the grant expected in January next year.
GOVERNMENT has no money to pay teachers invigilating this year's Ordinary and Advanced Level examinations and is urging the educators to make sacrifices for their students, Education, Sport, Arts and Culture Minister David Coltart said yesterday.
MOST motorists are horrified to learn that Harare City Council has a weekly target for revenue from fines for clamping or towing vehicles.
In the early 1980s, Zimbabwe's Magodonga Mahlangu witnessed the massacre of thousands in Matabeleland, including family members, and she decided it was intolerable that the people of Zimbabwe were forbidden to know the truth about what was happening in their country.
ZIMBABWE Stock Exchange-listed resource firm Falgold has released its 2008 full year financials 11 months after its year-end.
A Harare lawyer has been dragged to court for representing a client in three cases before he was issued with a practising licence.
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