LONDON – With a voice that has been likened to the Legendary Luther Vandross by award-winning Canadian Vocalist Ali Matthews, Batsirai Chada’s only way is up. The Canada-based Zimbabwean, who as a teenager was part of a performing arts training group that featured the late mbira ace Chiwoniso Maraire and internationally-acclaimed actress Danai Gurira, has…
HARARE – South Africa-based dancehall star Buffalo Souljah feels privileged to have been the only Zimbabwean musician selected to collaborate with 18 other African artistes on a song called Cocoa Na Chocolate. The Bulawayo-born musician, who has won five Channel O awards, teamed up with artistes such as D’Banj and Femi Kuti from Nigeria along…
HARARE – Zimbabwe is now ready to host people from all walks of life for this year’s edition of the Harare International Carnival scheduled for May 16 to 24. Officially launching the carnival in the capital on Thursday, Harare Mayor Councillor Bernard Manyenyeni predicted a massive turnout to this year’s edition of the Harare International…
HARARE – Tocacco prices have slumped 15,13 percent to average $3,18 per kg this season compared to around $3,75 last year. This comes as Zimbabwe has auctioned tobacco worth $203,7 million since the opening of the 2014 selling season mid-February. The figure, according to statistics from Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board (Timb), is one percent…
HARARE – Telecel Zimbabwe has unveiled a pre-paid service platform that will discount call tariffs by as much as 37 percent across all networks. The service, Telecel Go, which significantly reduces call costs below the regulatory standard charge, has been allowed a three-month run pending Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) approval for…
HARARE – A disgruntled man has accused his wife of having sexual intercourse with jailed Independent End Time Message founder Robert Martin Gumbura and seven other church members. Romeo Ezra yesterday told Harare Civil Court magistrate Tafadzwa Muvhami that his wife, Octavia was told by church members to confess that she had an affair with…
HARARE – Veteran poet Albert Nyathi says Zimbabwe’s circumcised population must not use the status as a licence to immorality. Nyathi, who was circumcised on Thursday together with Peter ‘Young Igwe’ Moyo, at Lobengula Community Hall, wants circumcised men to continue using protection during sex. “Don’t go around saying now I can sleep with anyone…
HARARE – Suspended Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) Group Chief Executive Officer Happison Muchechetere’s case has been postponed to May 15, after the State said it was not ready to proceed. Muchechetere is facing fraud charges involving $800 000 and is currently out of custody after Harare magistrate Douglas Chikwekwe granted him $3 000 bail. The…
HARARE – Expelled MDC deputy treasurer-general Elton Mangoma and his renewal team have dismissed their expulsion from the party, saying it is a legal nullity. The opposition party on Thursday summarily expelled Mangoma, national executive members Jacob Mafume and Last Maengahama, as well as youth assembly secretary-general Promise Mkwananzi. The four are part of the…
HARARE – Government will set up a board to work on the modalities of the municipality’s managers salaries, Ignatius Chombo, minister of Local Government Public Works and National Housing has said. Chombo briefed Parliament of the development on Wednesday while responding to questions fielded by legislators who demanded to know why the minister had allowed…
