HARARE – Rising music star Alexio Kawara is chuffed to have been asked by South African singer Zahara to stand in for George Munetsi on the song Incwadi Ncane on Saturday night. South Africa-based Zimbabwean DJ Munetsi who did the Shona lyrics on the song was unavailable leading the South African songbird to send an…
HARARE – When I listened to Plumtree-based music group Tanga Pasi last month at the Book Cafe, it evoked memories of my first encounter with Mokoomba in 2008 during the Music Crossroads finals in the Harare Gardens. Tanga Pasi’s beautiful harmonies bowled me over just like the then Victoria Falls-based Mokoomba had done five years…
HARARE – Australia is to lift sanctions on 55 Zimbabweans in response to the announcement of a referendum on a new constitution ahead of July elections. Foreign minister Bob Carr said the group included members of the judiciary and media, provincial governors and leading business figures as well as a number of politicians from President…
ROME –Cardinals gathered in Rome to elect the new Pope will begin voting later, with no clear frontrunner to take over as head of the Roman Catholic Church. The 115 cardinal-electors are attending a special Mass in St Peter’s Basilica before processing into the Sistine Chapel to begin their secret deliberations this afternoon. They will…
HARARE – The Law Society of Zimbabwe (LSZ) has appointed an arbitrator to deal with a labour dispute between Core Mining and Mineral Resources and Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporation (ZMDC). Former High Court judge Moses Chinhengo has been tasked with resolving the dispute between the two companies’ operations. The two firms were once partners in…
BULAWAYO – Zanu PF youths and members of the main wing fought raging battles which needed police intervention to quell at the party headquarters over leadership differences as intra-party violence threatens to tear the former ruling party. Bulawayo provincial chairperson Killian Sibanda’s political future seems doomed as his short spell at the helm has come…
HARARE – Zimbabwe earned $366,3 million from mineral exports in the first two months of the year on the back of favourable global mineral prices and stable economic conditions, Finance minister Tendai Biti has said. Presenting his February state of the economy report Biti said the earnings represented an increase of 17 percent over the…
HARARE – An in(voice) must be supported by a voice of a living person for it is true that in the animal kingdom invoices are not relevant and even in this age of technology no two machines can never be expected to invoice each other in a vacuum. An invoice is a bill sent by…
HARARE – Referendums have been dramatic at times because citizens traditionally use them to express displeasure with a governing party by voting against its position mid-term. This can be said of the referendum on the draft constitution in 2000. Ask some of the people who voted against the draft, many will not be able to…
PRETORIA – Murder accused Paralympian Oscar Pistorius wants to sell his house in Pretoria where model Reeva Steenkamp was shot dead, a family spokesperson said on Monday. “He has signalled his intention to sell (the house), but nothing has been done pro-actively to start the process,” Johan van Wyk said. He said the family would…
