HARARE – Gospel star Charles Charamba and poet-cum-musician Albert Nyathi have been included in a new seven-member Zimbabwe Music Rights Association (Zimura) board voted into office on Tuesday. The two popular artistes will be joined by Joyce Simeti, Bob Nyabinde, First Farai, Metro Studios proprietor Emion Sibindi and Borniface Manyonganise. Only outgoing chairperson Nyathi, gospel…
BULAWAYO – Women In Theatre (WIT) have lined up a performance of a play titled Song of a Woman at the National Gallery in Bulawayo tomorrow as part of the commemorations of the on-going 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-based Violence. The Bulawayo-based WIT project is a partnership between Amakhosi Academy and Nhimbe Trust. Project…
WASHINGTON – America’s first black president, Barack Obama, hailed Nelson Mandela on Thursday as a source of personal inspiration whose struggle against racism in South Africa jump-started his own involvement in politics. Speaking in the White House press room shortly after the announcement of Mandela’s death, a somber-looking Obama said the 95-year-old former South African…
JOHANNESBURG – South Africans have gathered in Johannesburg and Soweto to mourn their former leader, Nelson Mandela, who died on Thursday aged 95. Crowds paid tribute, dancing and singing in front of Mr Mandela’s former home in Soweto throughout the night. Flags flew at half mast after President Jacob Zuma announced his death in a…
MUTARE – An axed senior Zanu PF official in court for allegedly stealing party beasts has sensationally claimed she is being fixed for spurning party secretary for administration Didymus Mutasa’s sexual advances. Through her lawyer, Dorothy Mabika, who was suspended as acting Manicaland provincial chairperson because of her links to the “stolen” beasts, said Mutasa…
BULAWAYO – A storm is brewing over mining activities in the Gwayi Valley Intensive Conservation Area as conservationists blame government ministers for misleading President Robert Mugabe into granting mining rights to the Chinese without due consideration. A Matabeleland North-based conservation group has accused government ministers who presented the Environmental Impact Assessment report to Mugabe of…
HARARE – Zimbabwe is losing a large chunk of its revenues to thieves in government, Finance minister Tendai Biti has claimed. Government departments are not remitting cash to Treasury and other forms of theft of minerals are on the rise in Zimbabwe, the MDC secretary-general told a party newsletter, and said the corruption that pervades…
HARARE – Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC has spared the axe on five rebellious councillors and two mayors suspended for defying the party directive and voting Zanu PF mayoral candidates. The party suspended its councillors two months back for allegedly voting for Zanu PF mayoral candidates ahead of their party’s nominees during the mayoral elections. Among those…
HARARE – Lovemore Madhuku, National Constitutional Assembly (NCA) leader, is courting former Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara to join his party, in an effort to mount a strong opposition against Zanu PF in 2018. The constitutional law expert transformed the civil rights organisation from a constitutional pressure group advocating a people-driven governing charter, into an…
HARARE – Parliamentary candidates who contested the July 31 poll on a Zanu PF ticket have defied Didymus Mutasa, the party secretary for administration and Presidential Affairs minister’s order to surrender Ford Everest campaign vehicles. Mutasa wrote to provincial chairpersons on October 29, instructing them to surrender the vehicles to their provincial party headquarters with…
