HARARE – While other girls of her age enjoy playing house, going to school and hanging out, Tanyaradzwa Masendeke, who suffers from a skin cancer called xeroderma pigmentosum, is confined to the family’s home in Epworth with her mother the only friend she knows. She was diagnosed with the condition when she was only three…
HARARE – The assault of Zimbabwe People First (ZPF) officials in Guruve recently is a sad reminder that political violence, especially that instigated by the ruling Zanu PF is still entrenched in our society. ZPF officials, who included retired senior military officer and former Zimbabwe ambassador to Mozambique, Agrippa Mutambara were heavily assaulted by suspected…
HARARE – Music legend Oliver “Tuku” Mtukudzi, whose first song was Stop after Go in 1975, has just released his 65th album titled Eheka! Nhai Yahwe. Our correspondent Munya Simango recently spoke to the veteran musician on a variety of issues. Below are excerpts of the interview: Q: Does your just-released 65th album hold a…
HARARE – DJ Naida, regarded by many as the country’s best female disc jockey, quit banking after finding the allure of the turntables irresistible. After graduating with a bachelor of financial planning degree at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University a few years ago, DJ Naida, who was born Colleen Danai Goredema, got a job at a…
MUTARE? – Joyce Simango, whose book Zviuya Zviri Mberi, published in 1974, was the first book by a black woman in Zimbabwe, is currently working on her second novel. The 68-year old writer, who attributes the 42-year hiatus partly to the frustration of not being allowed to write freely in her native tongue, told the…
HARARE – Kelvin Kaindu returns to Barbourfields Stadium this afternoon for a date against his former side Highlanders hoping to silence the Bulawayo giants by dumping them out of the Chibuku Super Cup and progress to the next round. After accounting for Dynamos 4-5 on penalties in the first round at Rufaro Stadium to set up…
HARARE – The Zanu PF women’s league has upped its battle to regain one of the ruling party’s two vice presidency posts, as insiders opposed to VP Emmerson Mnangagwa succeeding President Robert Mugabe vowed yesterday that this would happen at the expense of the Midlands godfather. At the same time, Mugabe not only took a…
HARARE – The government’s quests to introduce the much-distrusted bond notes onto the market at the end of this month continue to face challenges, after former Vice President Joice Mujuru escalated her objections to the surrogate currency yesterday by asking the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) to reveal the law it will use to back…
HARARE – The country’s biggest opposition political party MDC led by former prime minister Morgan Tsvangirai will today celebrate 17 years of existence at White City Stadium in Bulawayo. Formed in 1999 on the coattails of workers, the labour backed opposition party has proved to be a thorn in the flesh for President Robert Mugabe….
HARARE – MDC senator and party deputy national chairperson Morgen Komichi has dragged Zanu PF politician and former Information minister Webster Shamu’s company to court for allegedly selling diesel mixed with water. In the matter, which is being heard before the Harare Magistrates’ Courts, Komichi is demanding over $5 000 in compensation. According to court…
