LOCAL film organisation, Gesh23 Productions, has teamed up with Uganda’s King Paul Media Entertainment (KPM) to produce a short film titled, Find Me. Find Me, a product of the inaugural National Arts Council of Zimbabwe (Nacz)/Piton International Film Festival (PIFF) Africa 2021 Film Festival, was penned by Ugandan Paul Ssebata and is set to be directed by…
MULTI-award- WINNING visual artist Forbes Mushipe has urged the country’s young visual artists to consider investing their abilities in developing contemporary art, which he says is what the market now wants, the world over. He said the young crop should learn from seasoned artists such as Tapfuma Gutsa, Coster Mukoki, Owen Maseko, David Chinyama, Dominic…
WHILE most Warriors stars are gearing up for the start of new seasons across the world, the same cannot be said about defender Alec Mudimu, who is still club-hunting having left Turkish side Ankaraspor FC recently after just seven months at the club. The Warriors defender joined the Turkish TFF 1 side from Welsh Club…
SOUTH Korean Ambassador Do Bong-Kae has said his government will continue assisting Zimbabwe in the fight against Covid-19 and improving access to maternal healthcare. Bong-Kae made these remarks during a donation of maternity equipment worth US$12 000 by the Korea International Cooperation Agency (Koica) and Korea Alumni Association of Zimbabwe (Kaaz) to Pelandaba Clinic in…
AN estimated 1 500 National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) short term contract (STCs) employees are set to lose their jobs as the parastatal implements its restructuring exercise. On the other hand, the exercise has also sparked low morale particularly in those in top positions following the management’s move to freeze other departments and redeploy those…
AUTHORITIES say they will persist with their current policies which have steadied the economy and resulted in relatively stable prices of many basic consumer goods. Presenting his mid-term monetary policy statement (MPS) yesterday, the governor of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe John Mangudya, pictured, also expressed confidence that the economy would continue on its recovery…
LANDS minister Anxious Masuka says the country is running out of land to redistribute to prospective new indigenous farmers with the waiting list now standing at over 250 000. This comes at a time the country is facing a rapid increase of human population, which is putting extraordinary pressure on the country’s natural resources available,…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has implored Zimbabweans to shun divisions and work together to improve the country’s socio-economic fortunes regardless of who wins elections to govern the nation. Speaking at State House yesterday, at the launch of his biography — A life of Sacrifice — Mnangagwa beseeched citizens to “craft beautiful lessons of reconciliation, national unity, national peace,…
THE government is laying the groundwork to eventually establish provincial councils nationwide as provided for in the Constitution, Local Government minister July Moyo, has said. The provincial councils were elected in the 2013 and 2018 polls, but the officials were not sworn in ostensibly because there were legal issues that needed to be dealt with…
THE government has set up virtual hospitals to reach out to communities that are finding it difficult to access medication during this Covid-19 pandemic. Deputy Health minister John Mangwiro implored citizens to utilise the facility to circumvent the travel restrictions that have been brought about by the pandemic. “In the process, we set up as…
