BULAWAYO – Award-winning author NoViolet Bulawayo is back home to officially launch her debut novel We Need New Names at the National Art Gallery in Bulawayo today. The launch is being supported by the British Council Zimbabwe, amaBooks Publishers, the Intwasa Arts Festival koBulawayo and Bulawayo Agenda. NoViolet’s debut novel has already earned international recognition…
BULAWAYO – Prominent Bulawayo-based Afro jazz musician Jeys Marabini has released a 11-track album titled Silo. The album, which was recorded in Zimbabwe’s second largest city, was mixed and mastered in Vienna, Austria by Andreas Luger of Rabbit Hill Studios. Silo hits the market barely a year after his last album Jeys at 40 when…
BULAWAYO – An all-female a cappella outfit, Nobuntu, has announced its arrival in showbiz with the launch of a debut album Thina (Us). The 10 track album, which was recorded in Bulawayo, was officially launched on Saturday at Indaba Café in the city. The five women ensemble took the opportunity of the well-attended function to…
BULAWAYO – In a potentially exciting Intwasa Festival double bill, former Afrika Revenge member Willis Wataffi will share the stage with Selmor Mtukudzi at Elite 400 on September 27. Raisedon Baya, Intwasa Arts festival director, said the duet is billed to be one of the top drawer performances at the festival. “The show will be…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s largest financial group by assets and earnings, CBZ Bank, has issued agro bonds worth $35 million to raise funding for the 2013/14 soya bean production season. The bonds — with a 272-day tenure and attracting a 10,5 percent interest — are expected to boost soya bean production in the country, whose agricultural…
HARARE – Hippo Valley Estates Limited (Hippo Valley) says it is targeting to export more than 217 000 tonnes of sugar to the European Union (EU), as a way of boosting the company’s earnings. Last year, the sugar producer — a unit of South Africa’s Tongaat Hulett — supplied over 247 000 tonnes of sugar…
HARARE – Aquarius Platinum Limited (Aquarius) has cut its chief executive Jean Nel’s salary by 30 percent and imposed a 10 percent slash of directors’ fees as part of measures to contain “cash corporate costs”. The platinum group metals producer, which jointly owns Zimbabwe-based Mimosa Mining Company with Impala Platinum (Implats), yesterday announced that it…
HARARE – It is 9am and there is hustle and bustle at the country’s largest medical centre Parirenyatwa Hospital. The emergency room is packed to the rafters with patients sitting on benches, wheelchairs and stretcher beds. Some are bleeding profusely, some are groaning in excruciating pain, others are lying lifeless on stretcher beds and on…
HARARE – Mount Pleasant MDC councillor, Bernard Manyenyeni, has been elected Harare mayor, beating Zanu PF’s Musatye Gwasira by a margin of 31 votes. Manyenyeni took over Harare’s top job yesterday from Muchadeyi Masunda after being voted for by 38 elected councillors against seven who voted for the Zanu PF councillor during council’s inaugural meeting…
HARARE – Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) workers who have gone for the past four months without pay are now pinning their hopes on new Media, Information and Broadcasting Services minister Jonathan Moyo to address their plight. ZBC workers last got salaries in April this year. Sivukile Simango, the Corporation’s spokesperson, declined to comment on the…
