BULAWAYO – Football legend Peter Ndlovu on Friday broke down at a function before giving a speech on road safety in a sign he is still traumatised by the death of his brother Adam and a female passenger following a car accident in December last year. The star, who is now a national team assistant…
HARARE – Tendai Biti, secretary-general of the mainstream MDC, has been barred again by police from addressing a rally at Nyamakate Business Centre in Hurungwe North constituency. It is the second time this month, and the fourth inside two months this has happened in Mashonaland West. In an August 24, letter to the party, Makuti…
HARARE – UK-based violinist Andrew Sherwood and Zimbabwe’s foremost concert pianist, Jeanette Micklem, will present a classical music concert in Harare on Sunday September 2, the latest recital hosted by Celebrity Subscription Concerts. Sherwood previously performed in Harare when he last visited Zimbabwe to adjudicate at the annual Eisteddfod in April last year. He has…
BULAWAYO – Bulawayo-based afro-jazz star Jeys Marabini has decided to produce his forthcoming album in Austria in pursuit of his hope of penetrating the lucrative European market. Marabini’s last two albums were recorded in South Africa after he had ditched Gramma Records due to the local company’s poor marketing of his music. The respected afro-jazz…
BULAWAYO – Bulawayo-based Afro-jazz kingpin Jeys Marabini will this weekend leave for Austria where he is set to strut it out at the Roots Music of Southern Africa festival. The festival is a brainchild of Zimbabwean-born Blessing Nqo Nkomo of Imbube outfit, Insingizi Emnyama who is based in that country. Speaking to the Daily News,…
MAPUTO – South African president Jacob Zuma’s report to the SADC Extra-Ordinary summit in Maputo, Mozambique on June 15, 2013 Also present were SADC chairperson Armando Guebuza, Robert Mugabe and Zambian president Michael Sata 1. INTRODUCTION: At the meeting of the SADC Heads of State held in Addis Ababa on 26 May 2013, we agreed…
HARARE – Birmingham-based saxophonist and rapper Soweto Kinch, has described Zimbabwean-born jazz singer Eska Mtungwazi ‘‘as an incredible singer, I think Britain’s best kept secret.” Multi-talented Eska, who left Zimbabwe’s second biggest city Bulawayo as a three-year-old, has captivated Britain with what Shirlene Alusa-Brown of jamati.com describes as “almost throaty, yet smooth delivery harkens to…
HARARE – Zimbabwe Prisons Service (ZPS) boss Paradzai Zimondi has pleaded with “men of God” to help rid Harare Remand Prison of Satanists. Zimondi was speaking to delegates attending a stakeholder’s conference in Harare yesterday. “I appeal to you men of God, we have a problem of Satanists here, there are only two of them…
HARARE – The Harare International Festival of the Arts (Hifa) recently announced the appointment of its new artistic director described as an artist, educationist and administrator Gavin Peter to replace Hifa founder Emmanuel Bagorro who held the position since the festival’s inception. Early this year Bagorro announced that he would be stepping down from his…
HARARE – Former Zanu PF politburo member and Mavambo Kusile/Dawn (MKD) leader Simba Makoni says he was inspired to form his political outfit because President Robert Mugabe had become a threat to the legacy of the liberation struggle. Makoni a former Cabinet minister in Mugabe’s government including the much vaunted war Cabinet of 2000, said…
