HARARE – Chicken Inn will have to serve their football dish on FC Platinum next time when violence which erupted in Bulawayo yesterday forced the cancellation of this eagerly-awaited fixture. Police fought running battles with youths in Bulawayo following eruption of violence in yesterday’s largely peaceful stay away called to protest the deteriorating economic situation…
HARARE – Chimurenga artiste Jairos Chabvonga who recently made headlines for blaming self-exiled musician Thomas Mapfumo for the “death” of chimurenga music in the country has released a new video. The video Ndinotenda is offhis latest album Chimurenga Heritage. “The video is part of my efforts to revive chimurenga music in the country. The album…
HARARE – A Zimbabwean couple recently had the chance to visit Europe after winning an international DStv subscriber’s competition. Addmore and Eunice Chagaresango of Harare had the trip of a lifetime recently, when they travelled to Europe to watch two major sporting cup finals. The couple which is a DStv Premium bouquet viewer was entered…
HARARE – Theatre in the Park yesterday cancelled a Untikolotshi play which was supposed to run until Friday. It was written by Nonhlalo Dube during British Council and Royal Court Playwriting programme in 2014 and is directed by Styx Mhlanga. “We regret to inform you that Untikolotshi play from Bulawayo which was supposed to be…
HARARE – Recently and over a period of time, questions have come up about whether Air Zimbabwe is ever going to make it as a viable airline or not. Not so long ago, the airline appeared before a Transport Parliamentary Portfolio Committee and one major thing that was raised was the need to reintroduce the…
HARARE – London-listed resources firm Premier African Minerals (Premier) said it will start production at its RHA tungsten project in Zimbabwe on Monday next week. The company’s chief executive, George Roach, yesterday said screens and plant modifications are now at site and installation is progressing despite prior delays at the Zimbabwe/South Africa border, the company…
ACCRA – Nine people have died in Ghana’s second city, Kumasi, following a stampede at a party to mark the end of Ramadan, local media report. The injured were taken to a nearby hospital and one person is in a critical condition, Joy FM reports. There are conflicting reports of the cause of Wednesday night’s…
LONDON – Months ago, I proposed an explanation for Zimbabweans’ infamous apathy to protest despite a long and debilitating crisis that has reduced them to paupers. This disinclination has been a source of puzzlement to external observers. Outsiders have often dubbed Zimbabweans cowards. My response to the critics has been that, while the accusation of…
HARARE – Zimbabweans yesterday peacefully expressed their anger against President Robert Mugabe and his Zanu PF administration by staying away from work despite groaning calls by the regime for people to report for duty. What this shows is that Zimbabweans have had enough of this regime, which is bent on pillaging the economy at the…
HARARE – The question that was being asked and debated the most by many Zimbabweans, after long-suffering citizens staged the biggest general strike ever mounted in the history of the country yesterday, was whether the unprecedented stay-away marked the beginning of the end for President Robert Mugabe and Zanu PF. So stunningly successful was the…
