AFRO-fusion singer Ammi Jamanda who recently collaborated with Chimurenga music legend Thomas Mapfumo, is on the cusp of becoming a traditional healer. [GoogleAd] She collaborated with Mapfumo, popularly known as Mukanya, his baboon totem, on the song Ruva Rangu. Candid and unapologetic about her true identity, Jamanda opened up to the Daily News on Sunday…
Roger’s novel is set in the demi-monde of Zimbabwe’s politics at the end of Robert Mugabe’s reign. Malan considers the portents for South Africa. [GoogleAd] “Two Weeks in November” features several characters whose identity is concealed behind pseudonyms, a factor that would normally seem suspect to me. On the other hand, Douglas Rogers’ book is set…
Ernest Gwinyai & Alex Majongwe Out of a population of 16 million about 800 000 to 1 000 000 Zimbabweans are on medical aid cover. As at December 31, 2017 about $650 million in contributions accrued to the medical aid sector. [GoogleAd] These funds almost equate to the nation’s annual health budget allocation outside donor…
Dakarai Mashava Features Editor ZIMBABWE-BORN Delight Mapasure’s decision to introduce boerewors on the United Kingdom market has surpassed her wildest dreams. In October last year, Mapasure and her South Africa-born husband Keitumetse Ngwenya co-founded a sausage-making company called K’s Wors which is already winning rave reviews. In November last year, K’s Wors featured as a…
I hardly knew of Hopewell Chin’ono before September 2018, nor did I take much notice of his writings. In September 2018, a post on a social media group attracted my attention. [GoogleAd] It was an online link titled Time the Zimbabwean Men Start to Think of Investing in Their Villages. I decided to read it. The…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has come under attack for inviting Uganda President Yoweri Museveni to officially open this year’s 60th Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF) despite his alleged dictatorial tendencies. Museveni, who was once hailed as a freedom fighter and liberator by the Ugandans and by the Western world, has since drifted into an autocratic leader,…
ZIMBABWEAN courts have started granting estranged wives thousands of dollars in damages after suing “small houses” for stealing their men. More and more wives are demanding hefty financial damages from “small houses” for alienation of affection, with the latest case of Rudo Boka being settled with a hefty $50 000 in adultery damages — the…
Exactly one year after the African Medallion Group (AMG) introduced aUS$1 billion gold-backed bond certificate, selling certificates backedby gold ingots as a savings mechanism, the start-up has experienced a high inflow of investor interest. The South African gold medallion firm, owned by Zimbabwean entrepreneur Frank Buyanga, last April launched a fully gold-backedbond certificate, which allows…
The total number of Zimbabweans on Medical Aid Cover ranges between 800 000 and 1000 000 members. This represents as at December 31, 2017 about $650 million that has accrued to the sector as income on annual basis. Funds handled by the medical aid societies and insurance sector surpass the annual health budget. [GoogleAd] While…
It sure is a comic circus of tragic proportions. Thank God, the life of Senator Tambudzani Mohadi was spared after the vice president’s aide restrained him from getting his gun. If he had carried out his threat, would those hordes of watching police officers have immediately cuffed him or they would have waited for the…
