BULAWAYO – Zapu leader Dumiso Dabengwa has slammed Zanu PF for displaying “irrational fear” of being exposed for stealing late nationalist Joshua Nkomo’s ideas. He said Zanu PF maligned Nkomo but then moved to “steal” his ideas on land reform and indigenisation which they went on to implement haphazardly. Reacting to a police ban of…
BULAWAYO – Political analysts in Bulawayo have censured Zanu PF’s intention to conduct a series of events in honour of the late Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo. Analysts have described the planned events as a strategy by the party to court the electorate from Matabeleland through aligning themselves to the veteran statesman. The criticism emerges at a…
HARARE – South Africa-based urban groover Enock ‘Nox’ Guni is delighted to be the supporting act of Zimbabwe music legend Thomas Mapfumo’s show in the United Kingdom next month. Guni and the exiled music legend are scheduled to share the stage between May 24 and 26 in Leicester and Chester where Mukanya, as Mapfumo is…
HARARE – Award-winning songster Enoch “Nox” Guni will on Friday release a 15-track album named after his Johannesburg studio Ice n Roses. The album called Ice n Roses Volume 1 is a compilation of songs by different artistes signed to Guni’s one-year-old studio. The album includes controversial rapper Maskiri, Tawanda Mugodhi and Guni’s young brother…
HARARE – Urban grooves star Nox will perform with a live band for the second time ever at the G-Tel Face of Zimbabwe (FoZ) pageant at the Harare International Conference Centre tonight. The popular urban groover first performed using a live band when he performed as a supporting act to P Square during the Lion…
HARARE – Zimbabwe can’t just have enough of award-winning urban grooves star Nox Guni! Guni, who is based in South Africa, has lined up two shows in Bulawayo and Harare during the first week of December. His first show will be in Bulawayo on December 1 with his second scheduled to take place five days…
HARARE – Zimbabwe get ready for South African Afro-pop singing sensation, Ntando Bangani! One of the most exciting artistes to emerge from South Africa in the last decade, this smooth, polished songbird is about to hit the Zimbabwe music scene at the Book Café on Saturday October 20. A programme is available at the The…
HARARe – Zimbabwe hopes to raise $132 million needed for the forthcoming general elections from the international community, diamond revenue, mobile telecommunication firms’ licence fees and mining royalties, as the cash crisis bites. Fresh from bankrolling a constitutional referendum through $40 million raised from a special bond floated to the local unit of Old Mutual…
HARARE – Zimbabwe government is approaching the international community to bankroll this year’s watershed elections. President Robert Mugabe and his coalition partner, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, have already ordered Finance minister Tendai Biti and his Justice counterpart Patrick Chinamasa to take the begging bowl to the world. Speaking to journalists yesterday, Biti said the country,…
HARARE – Finance minister Tendai Biti (pictured) has promised a huge shift in the country’s indigenisation policy if his MDC party romps to victory in the forthcoming watershed poll. The MDC secretary-general says his party wants to “re-think” President Robert Mugabe’s empowerment policies in statements that show a tense election campaign. It’s been a fractious…
