HARARE – For years and years his voice has been entertaining sungura lovers, while he has spent thousands of hours in the studio rehashing and producing albums for his fans. He did not stop there, as he drives kilometres and kilometres of gravel and tarred roads night and day just to get to the people…
HARARE – If music is a language for most of us, then for Oran Etkin it is his mother tongue, and with his trio and with his project Timbalooloo, he has dedicated his life to passing it on to others. With support from MBCA, this renowned American jazz outfit will perform and teach in Harare…
HARARE – In the laboratory at his Marlborough home in Harare Ben Vermulen was trying to milk a huge Cape cobra by manoeuvring its razor sharp fangs through a rubber sheath on a plastic vial — the way he had done it thousands of times before. This time the snake wriggled loose, sinking its fangs…
HARARE – This article focuses on the timing of elections and is necessitated by comments by President Emmerson Mnangagwa on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos that general elections would be held earlier than July, 2018. Unfortunately, since getting into office, Mnangagwa has made several statements which do not agree with the…
HARARE – For several years now, the Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) has been mired in a series of controversies involving examination paper leaks, placing its credibility into the spotlight. During the 2017 examination session, examination papers for several subjects reportedly leaked. It defies logic how such an important body is failing to put foolproof…
HARARE – Parents have dragged the Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) to the High Court seeking an order nullifying its decision to have children resit for the 2017 Ordinary Level English Paper 2 examination, after allegations the paper leaked through social media. The applicants Victor Mukomeka on behalf of his child Charmaine Mukomeka and Chingasiyeni…
HARARE – Lack of funding and political interference has resulted in most independent commissions set up by government failing to deliver in terms of the Constitution, rendering them useless and a burden to the nation’s fiscus, rights groups have said. Zimbabwe has several key independent commissions that are aimed at promoting transparency and accountability in…
HARARE – MDC president Morgan Tsvangirai’s health status should not be shrouded in secrecy nor should it be a private matter for his family as he is a national figure with millions of people looking up to him, social and political commentators contend. They believe that while Tsvangirai did the honourable thing to disclose his…
HARARE – Civil society organisations recently met to assess the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission’s (NPRC) work, the recently signed NPRC Act, prospects for transitional justice in the country and their role in the process. The meeting organised by the National Transitional Justice Working Group (NTJWG), a main driver of civil society’s push for the…
HARARE – Ailing MDC president Morgan Tsvangirai has been placed into an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at a Johannesburg hospital after he refused to eat for 10 days due to the alleged ill-treatment of his wife Elizabeth by his family, the Daily News On Sunday can reveal. Elizabeth has been barred from seeing her husband…
