© ZIMBABWE’S struggling businesses have implored the government to desist from threatening markets as this risks plunging the economy into a fresh turmoil. [GoogleAd] The southern African nation’s economy, which has been in dire straits since hyperinflation wiped out savings and the Zimbabwean dollar was abandoned, risks sliding into recession this year — according to…
© Hon Criss is down to his last Kobo and Naira. Last weekend, Hon Criss drove away, leaving his 18-year-old daughter to begin a degree at a State varsity after forking out a fortune. [GoogleAd] If you have a child heading to varsity, prepare for financial Armageddon. From the deposit, the actual fees, finding…
© THE pain and guilt of losing 35 chicks due to her negligence when she was a young girl decades ago spurred Evangelista Chekera to dream of coming up with innovative solutions to the problems they regularly encountered at her father’s poultry farm. [GoogleAd] Though still very young at the time, Chekera was convinced that…
© A well regulated and effective medical aid insurance sector could lessen the cost burden on members and reduce the incidence of shortfalls. [GoogleAd] Disclosure and standardisation of the annual reports and financial statements in the sector is important. One of the leading medical aid societies has just published its annual report. The members of…
© THE bulk of charismatic preachers in the country have fallen in love with Zimdancehall music which is largely considered “impure” by some sections of the society. [GoogleAd] Zimdancehall, the most popular genre among the youths, especially those in the ghetto, is basically associated with alcoholism, vulgarity and radicalism. But true to the biblical verse…
© LOCAL musicians are breaking new grounds in as far as fashion is concerned with some bizarre and out-of-this-world outfits defining their artistry. [GoogleAd] It seems the musicians are taking a leaf from international fashion trends whereby events such as the recently-held United States Met Gala had “strange” outfits on display. Zimbabwe has had a…
© MOST of the wealthy international sports personalities, actors and musicians pride themselves with body tattoos. But for others the tattoos are a sign of bravado and notoriety as they are also a hit with gangsters and other doggy characters. [GoogleAd] Others believe they are cultic signatures as they also come in images of reptiles…
© GEMMA Griffiths is a Zimbabwean musician based in Cape Town, South Africa who speaks and sings in fluent Shona, a subject she did while at school in Zimbabwe. [GoogleAd] She hogged the showbiz limelight last year thanks to her collaboration with Zimdancehall stalwart Winky D on the song Mugarden. Since then, Gemma is one…
© From this week, we will bring you a series of articles on some of Zimbabwe’s past black listed songs from the 70s up until the 2000s as different government systems tried in vain to control artistic voices. [GoogleAd] AS the liberation war intensified in Zimbabwe in the 1970s, rural communities witnessed such brutality and…
© GREETINGS, and welcome to my weekly theatre column. To get started, what is the theatre? And why is it important? Why should we care, when there is film, and the internet, and all other manners of ways of being entertained? Why should we support the theatre? [GoogleAd] First of all because theatre is a…
