HARARE – Music superstar Oliver Mtukudzi and sungura giant Alick Macheso will share the stage at Pakare Paye Arts Centre in Norton tonight. The two will be supported by rising Afro-fusion artiste Prince Musarurwa in a concert dubbed Kumadzvamu-Tsvamu. The Tuku-Macheso gig is part of a series of monthly shows featuring different artistes which have…
HARARE – In a bid to attract new fans, internationally-acclaimed afrofusion band, Mokoomba has decided not to fix the entry charge to the launch concert of their self-produced third album titled Luyando on tonight at Theatre in the Park in the Harare Gardens. According to Mokoomba manager, Marcus Gora, the decision to “liberalise” the entry…
MUTARE – Runn Family and Assegai Crew — widely regarded as Mutare’s finest bands ever — will share the stage at Club Mandisa in the eastern border city tomorrow night. Dubbed “Runn Family meets Assegai Crew,” the show is expected to present a platform for the two legendary bands to showcase new material. According to…
HARARE – The build-up to the 10th Anniversary of the annual Troutbeck Triathlon African Cup event scheduled for Nyanga next week took off with a tripartite workshop involving the owners of the sport, the media and the sponsors at a local hotel in Harare this week. The historic race now dubbed the 2017 Bonaqua Troutbeck…
HARARE – Zanu PF women’s league deputy secretary, Eunice Sandi Moyo, yesterday thumbed her nose at her fellow ruling party bigwigs who are pushing for her summary expulsion from the strife-torn former liberation movement. Addressing a hastily-arranged press conference yesterday, the emotional Bulawayo Provincial Affairs minister vowed that she would only resign or leave the…
HARARE – Angry war veterans vowed yesterday to engineer President Robert Mugabe’s ouster from power “the Kalisto Pasuwa way” in next year’s eagerly-anticipated elections if the nonagenarian does not pass the leadership baton to Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Addressing hundreds of former freedom fighters who had gathered in Harare, the secretary-general of the Zimbabwe National…
HARARE – The heavy rains that have been pounding most parts of Zimbabwe over the past weeks are set to continue, with most areas forecast to receive excesses of 30 millimetres (mm) per day. According to Meteorological Services Department (Met)’s forecaster, John Mupuro, “thunder showers are expected for the rest of the country with heavier…
HARARE – Scores of Harare residents are exposed to deadly water-borne diseases — cholera and typhoid — after an Oxfam Zimbabwe (Oxfam) survey revealed that more boreholes in high density suburbs are “significantly contaminated”. This comes as Zimbabwe is battling to contain yet another cholera and typhoid outbreak which killed two people in Hatcliffe and…
HARARE – Activist group United Nations Watch (UNW) has expressed disgust over the hailing of Zimbabwe’s human rights record by “rogue” States — Iran, Venezuela and North Korea. While the three countries, with controversial governance records, praised Zimbabwe’s “promotion and protection of human rights” at the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council meeting last weekend,…
HARARE – Residents have expressed outrage over Harare City Council (HCC)’s move to appoint employees currently under corruption probes as substantive directors. The local authority confirmed Hosea Chisango (responsible for water), Tendai Kwenda (finance) and Edmore Nhekairo (housing) as directors this week. Their appointments come after Local Government minister Saviour Kasukuwere ordered the city to…
