HARARE – Dendera star Suluman Chimbetu returns to the Book Café tonight for a rare show at the leading entertainment venue in Harare. The popular musician, who is currently riding high with his latest 10-track offering Gunship, is expected to play several tracks off the album. Songs from the new album to look forward to…
HARARE – Killer T, one of the hottest artistes in Zimdancehall, will celebrate his birthday tomorrow night at the Super Label with a high-profile gig that will bring together some of the country’ s leading chanters. The self-styled Chairman will share the stage with Soul Jah Love, Seh Calaz, Tocky Vibes, Makwikwi, Mackman, Freeman, Kinnah,…
EDITOR — I refer to the story “Chinotimba invades 300ha farm”. And so this is the wise, caring, humorous MP and the one who won some “human rights” award? Truly, I am gobsmacked at this nation’s stupidity. Zimbabwe is never going to go forward, only backwards. Although late in the day, we thought that Lands…
HARARE – The only time President Robert Mugabe ever said anything to me, personally, was when he asked, accusingly: “What did you do to President Kaunda?” Senior journalists in Zimbabwe will recall that incident in Harare, at a gathering of many of us, with the president holding forth. I had just been introduced by name….
HARARE – Barely two months after agitated low-ranking members of the governing Zanu PF party fired provincial executives from their posts ahead of a Congress at the behest of ambitious politicians, is the damaging trend replicating in some party structures in Matabeleland. Politicians have profited from buying out the souls of poor party members in…
HARARE – Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has described the forced eviction of hundreds of poor families from a farm in Mazowe by President Robert Mugabe’s rapacious wife Grace — who wants to expand her vast business interests in the area — as “disgraceful”. Addressing the media at his party’s headquarters in Harare yesterday, the MDC…
HARARE – There is outrage over Zimbabwe’s refusal to slash fuel prices after a 50 percent price markdown in global oil prices. The price of Brent crude oil fell below $50 a barrel for the first time on Wednesday since May 2009, from $110 in June last year, resulting in most regional countries pegging their…
HARARE – Human rights defenders have demanded that Zimrights immediately strip Buhera South Zanu PF legislator Joseph Chinotimba of the so-called “Human Rights People’s Choice” award controversially conferred on him last year. The calls come after the boisterous politician invaded a farm in Chipinge this week. Internationally-acclaimed human rights defender, Wellington Chibebe, said Zimrights erred…
HARARE – Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai yesterday tore into acting President Emmerson Mnangagwa, describing his appointment as VP and that of Phelekezela Mphoko as a “façade reform” which is incapable of saving the country from the prevailing political and economic turmoil. “There have been changes in the leadership of both Zanu PF and the government,”…
HARARE – The majority of Zimbabweans believe Acting President Emmerson Mnangagwa will not take over from President Robert Mugabe, an opinion poll has shown. Econometer Global Capital (Econometer) 2015 report, showed that only 42 percent of Zimbabweans believed Mnangagwa was poised to take over from the incumbent leader. “When asked if they believed Mr Emmerson…
