LUSAKA – Suluman Chimbetu and the Orchestra Dendera Kings livened up the imposing Mulungushi Conference Centre on Saturday night with a highly-energetic performance that left members of the audience asking for more. Sulu was invited by the Zambian Tourism Board through the Zimbabwe Tourism Authority (ZTA) to perform at the second edition of the two-day…
HARARE – Dancehall producer and musician Irah “Ziggy Zee” Manjengwa says his project, which assists talented young musicians in the ghetto to record their music, is underpinned by his desire to fight drug abuse. The 26-year-old artiste told the Daily News that many youngsters are using high unemployment levels and poverty in the ghetto to…
HARARE – Chitungwiza-based Ol Unique Dance Factory is off to Johannesburg, where they will share the stage with a South African dance group, Young Culture, in the first week of May. OL Unique, which featured on Flem B’s video for the song Ndichamutambira — the ZBC Video of the Year for 2012 — believe their…
HARARE – Zimbabwe has auctioned tobacco worth $316 million since the opening of the 2014 selling season mid-February compared to $295 million realised during the same period last year. This year’s season opened on a low note, with depressed prices at below $3 per kilogramme (kg). However, 96 million kg of tobacco have been sold…
HARARE – As we have stated before, it is probably easier at the moment to groom a skunk — that stinky cat-sized mammal that sprays a foul-smelling liquid from its backside when it is threatened by an attacker — than it is to make sense of the MDC’s idiotic infighting and what this is supposed…
HARARE – Celebrity preacher Prophet Uebert Angel last Sunday prophesied correctly that English Premiership giants, Liverpool would lose to Chelsea in their crucial league match. Hours before the match kicked off, Angel stood before thousands attending his congregation and more on his Miracle TV and gave the exact match result of the titanic match. With…
HARARE – Thousands of angry MDC supporters gathered at the party’s Harare headquarters, Harvest House, yesterday to express their solidarity with their leader Morgan Tsvangirai following Saturday’s brazen rebellion by some of the party’s senior officials, including secretary-general Tendai Biti. The overwhelming support will have come as a welcome respite for the beleaguered MDC president…
HARARE – The smaller MDC faction led by Welshman Ncube has refused to be dragged into the current squabbles in the mainstream party led by Morgan Tsvangirai. MDC spokesperson Douglas Mwonzora told our sister paper the Daily News on Sunday at the weekend the national council meeting by the rebels was part of an elaborate…
HARARE – Analysts have described the divisions in the MDC which saw rebels “suspending” party leader Morgan Tsvangirai and other members of the top hierarchy on Saturday as a game where there were no winners or losers. Political analysts had earlier predicted the inevitable split of the 15-year-old movement which has so far presented President…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s failure to attend the Africa-Europe summit in remonstration with the decision to deny his wife (Grace Mugabe) a visa, has no impact on the relationship between Zimbabwe and the European Union (EU) which this week said it seeks to do more to help the southern African state put its economic…
