TWO totally unrelated events occurred the other week that I thought I should comment on. In South Africa, the Gauteng Liquor Board decided to extend liquor licences for shebeens by 24 months. They were due to expire at the end … Read more
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Why are (some) diasporians out of touch?
A RELATIVE of a distant relative returned from Canada to visit a couple of weeks ago. It had been ten years since we had last seen him. It was evident he was so home sick because he wept when he … Read more
Sam Mtukudzi: Mhodzi Yangu
SAM Mtukudzi’s death in a car crash in a car crash on March 15 plunged a country into mourning. Son of the legendary Oliver MtukudzI, Sam was a recording artist in his own right and was set to launch his … Read more
Arts and culture indaba opens in Harare
A TWO-DAY conference, bringing together some of Zimbabwe’s leading arts and culture players opened in Harare this morning. Giving the keynote address, Minister of Education Sports Arts & Culture, Senator David Coltart spoke about the dire lack of funding … Read more
7 things that the GNU has killed
1. Burning of Money Remember when you could take US$20 and get Z$2 billion on the street, but get Z$50 billion if you wanted the money transferred into your account? That was called kupisa (burning). It made hexatrillionnaires of … Read more
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Moonwalking at the growth point
Warning: This article contains lines translated from indigenous English also known as Ndenglish or Shonglish. A HOT topic burning the social networks among Zimbabweans worldwide has been that of their memories of Christmas ekhaya, back home. I couldn’t help … Read more
Is Urban Grooves officially dead?
^ Centre of attraction. Betty Makaya at the 2004 Zimbabwe Music Awards | THE Sports Diner in Harare holds an Urban Grooves night every Thursday. This has been an on and off event since December 2004. Every so often it’s … Read more
A Night at the NAMAs
The 8th Eidtion of the National Arts Merit Awards in Pictures. Above compères for the evening Comfort Mbofana and Ellen Chiyindiko. | The Awards were held at the HICC on Friday 13th February.
Namibian Big Brother housemate in Zimbabwe
NAMIBIAN Africa Big Brother 3 Housemate, Lucille Naobes, is in the country to host two Valentine’s dinner dances with Zimbabwean housemate, Munyaradzi ‘Munya’ Chidzonga. Munya, who was set to present one of the Awards at Friday’s National Arts … Read more
Chiwoniso’s Rebel Woman tops world charts
ZIMBABWEAN mbira star Chiwoniso has done the seemingly impossible. Her latest album, Rebel Woman, has been in the top twenty of the World Music Charts Europe (WMCE) for three months now- and last month (Dec 2008) it moved to the … Read more
