© HOW time flies! This week on July 24 marked exactly six years since the death of mbira songstress Chiwoniso Maraire, aka Chii. [GoogleAd] Born on March 5, 1976 and passed on July 24, 2013, she was a Zimbabwean singer, songwriter and exponent of Zimbabwean mbira music. She was the daughter of Zimbabwean mbira master…
© ZIMBABWEAN musicians are breaking local records with several of them hitting the landmark million views on the YouTube online video-streaming platform. [GoogleAd] The platform has exposed local music to wider audiences while at the same time earning those who would have hit that mark a fat cheque. YouTube has thus opened a lucractive revenue…
© IN A bid to market their clubs and bars, owners have gone all the way to give the outlets bizarre and unique names. [GoogleAd] From Club Vegas in Harare to Wadyiwa Wamira in Chikomba, the names — while suggestive — are also catchy. For many of the names, only the owners know why they…
© Combining instant messaging, social media and mobile payments into one App, Cassava Fintech International (CFI) has announced the launch of Africa’s first integrated Social Payments platform branded Sasai. [GoogleAd] Cassava Fintech International is a leading Fintech company in Africa and a subsidiary of the Econet Group. Sasai its latest platform, will be available to individuals…
© BORN and raised in city of Queens and Kings, Patience Ndebele-Omijie felt subdued in a small city, probing her to migrate to the United Kingdom (UK) at the age of 23, in pursuit of a better life and to empower those she left behind. [GoogleAd] Working as a full time mental health nurse in…
© When we think poverty the context is usually financial and economic but the consequences are broader and deeper. [GoogleAd] Think of children who started living on the streets in the mid-90s that have become street men and women with street families and still on the street, a girl forced into early marriage to…
© FOR years, aggrieved spouses reeling under the pain of betrayal by their partners could approach the courts and claim adultery damages compensation from their spouse’s lover. [GoogleAd] Through their applications, they would claim thousands of dollars from their partner’s lovers for pain and suffering caused by the illegal affair, loss of consortium, contumelia, and…
© TERTIARY students and their unions are sceptical over the success of the re-introduced government students’ loan facility, saying a similar initiative launched two years ago yielded no results at all. [GoogleAd] Government’s initiative comes as students from tertiary institutions recently condemned the increase in their fees saying it was forcing them to indulge in…
© THE move to decriminalise HIV transmission has sparked public debate as a cross-section of society still maintains the view that wilful infection by partners as stipulated in the 2001 Sexual Offences Act as provided for in section 79 of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act Chapter 9:3 still needs to be criminalised. [GoogleAd]…
© ZIMBABWE’s education sector has been crying foul over a myriad of challenges ranging from teachers’ welfare, the safety and welfare of learners, infrastructure development in learning institutions as well as the new curriculum among several others. [GoogleAd] The Daily News on Sunday’s Mugove Tafirenyika (Q) spoke to the Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe…
