HARARE – The 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded, for the first time ever, to a singer-songwriter, the American Bob Dylan. The award-winning singer was honoured “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition”. A professor of literature commented on Dylan’s “many examples of his brilliant way of rhyming and…
HARARE – Independently of Hifa this year, the play Tellers, the Musical debuted in Harare on Friday, May 5, and exploded into life on the amphitheatre stage of Harare’s renowned art institution, Gallery Delta. The high-energy play is a hard-hitting “dramedy” against the backdrop of a vivid music score covering many genres. It cleverly depicts…
HARARE – Media industry in Zimbabwe last week commemorated World Press Freedom Day, on May 3, with various organisations converging at the Harare Polytechnic where Information minister Chris Mushowe gave an address. The gathering saw deliberations and presentations on the media landscape by various media analysts and senior journalists. Students from the Harare Polytechnic and…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s claims that the Zimbabwean economy is “only second to South Africa (SA)’s” is the kind of nonsense only dodos or the worst of his sycophantic supporters in his beleaguered Zanu PF can swallow and believe. For many right-thinking people, the elderly ruler’s speech at the World Economic Forum (Wef) in…
HARARE – A deathly silence engulfs Takeley Drive in Harare’s medium density suburb of Sentosa, Mabelreign as Dick “Chinx” Chingaira is helped out of an Isuzu Bighorn and onto a wheelchair. Frail and barely able to speak, the man whose liberation war songs turned farmers into soldiers struggles to fight back tears as he approaches…
HARARE – Zimbabwe Tourism Authority (ZTA) chief executive officer Karikoga Kaseke has said the country’s tourism sector is improving, owing to the peace currently prevailing across the nation. In a statement yesterday, Kaseke said that the tourism industry in Zimbabwe has seen a steady growth over the past year. [GoogleAd] “In 2016, the country recorded…
HARARE – Following the suspension of the entire Chitungwiza council by Local Government minister Saviour Kasukuwere on corruption charges, most councils, particularly Norton where residents have staged demonstrations over alleged graft, are on high alert. With Norton councillors facing an uncertain future, our reporter Helen Kadirire sat down and talked with the town council’s chairperson…
HARARE – Dogged opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai (pictured) has delivered a stark message to long-suffering Zimbabweans: that either all eligible voters register and participate in next year’s make-or-break polls, or continue to cry as the country’s political and economic rot deepens by the day due to Zanu PF’s misrule. Addressing opposition supporters of political parties…
HARARE – Former Vice President Joice Mujuru yesterday led women from various opposition parties calling for their increased participation and representation in both Parliament and the government after next year’s make-or-break national elections. The campaign comes weeks after opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai and Mujuru signed a much-talked about memorandum of understanding, in preparation for the…
HARARE – Activist cleric Patrick Phillip Mugadza has launched a fresh assault on President Robert Mugabe and his Zanu PF government by petitioning the United States President Donald Trump to force the long-serving Zimbabwean leader to step down. Mugadza, who is facing a slew of charges at the courts, among them his controversial prophecy that…
