By Staff Reporter Mutare – Nine contestants in this year`s Miss Tourism Zimbabwe finals were injured Wednesday evening when a bus they were travelling in to a Vumba lodge overturned at 13 km peg along Vumba-Mutare road. Manicaland police spokesperson, Inspector Tavhiringwa Kakohwa confirmed the incident. He said there were 27 people aboard the bus
Xinhua Despite obtaining a motor mechanics diploma at a private college in Harare, Tendekai Tigere Tandi finds himself surviving on stone sculpting, something that he started as a hobby while in his pre-school age. Tandi is one of Zimbabwe’s self-taught, third-generation stone sculptors at Chitungwiza Arts Center, and he started commercial stone sculpting in 1998.
By ShowBiz Reporter THE Zimbabwean diaspora community and friends came out in full force on Saturday night to celebrate some of the best achievers of the year at the Zimbabwe Achievers Awards (ZAA) Australia 3rd Edition. Running under the theme, ‘Celebrating excellence and promoting the health and wellbeing of Zimbabweans in Australia’, the event was
By Mary Taruvinga CONTROVERSIAL and flamboyant businessman Frank Buyanga who runs African Medallion Group (AMG) has won a prestigious award of the Pan African Humanitarian award for Excellence in Business Leadership in Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates) He was handed the gong at the fifth Pan African Humanitarian Summit and Awards ceremony popularly known as Africa’s
By Mary Taruvinga FLAMBOYANT businessman and socialite, Genius Kadungure was Thursday honoured by a South African company which is in the business of coin collecting and manufacturing, Cape Mint which is currently celebrating entrepreneurs doing well across the continent. Kadungure was gifted with a gold plaque engraved with his image. Cape Mint says such gifts are meant
By Paidashe Mandivengerei NIGERIAN musician and television personality, Ben Ofoedu is set to host this year’s Zimbabwe Fashion Showcase (ZFS) in London. The fashion show brings together African designers based in the United Kingdom and across the world to celebrate and display their art. The event dubbed #ThisIsAfrica is scheduled for this Saturday the 28th of
By UK Correspondent RISING model and current Miss World Zimbabwe UK, Amanda Ngcono has been chosen to represent the country at the Miss Global International beauty pageant in Jamaica. The event will be held at the Montego Bay Convention on the 28th of September this year. The young beauty will be battling it out against
By Independent WORKOUT clothes don’t come cheap, but it’s not everyday that a baggy gym jumper sells for £42,700. That is, unless that baggy gym jumper once belonged to Princess Diana. The late Princess of Wales was photographed wearing her navy blue Virgin Atlantic pullover – a gift from Sir Richard Branson, on repeated trips to
By UK Correspondent Zimbabwe Achievers Awards International (ZAA) have spread their wings further with the launch of the ZAA Canada edition which was held on Saturday at Radisson Hotel in Edmonton in a glittering ceremony that celebrated the vast array of Zimbabwean achievers in the North American country. The Inaugural ZAA Canada Awards Gala further
By Paidashe Mandivengerei TWO Harare based visual artists have said they hope to collaborate with City Fathers in the capital to help it achieve its 2025 global city vision for the capital. Marcus Zvinavashe and Nyasha Jeche of CaliGraph told NewZimbabwe.com in an interview that their plan was to brighten the country’s capital city through murals.
Washington Post Ayanda Sibanda, a model with albinism, has invariably been called “yellow” or “white” by friends and even some relatives. But she hardly recalls anyone referring to her by her actual race. “I am black, that’s what I thought, but then I am always made to feel otherwise,” said the 18-year old who was
By Paidashe Mandivengerei ZIMBABWE Food and Culture Festival roared into life Thursday at the Harare Gardens, running under the theme “Celebrating our cultural diversity”. The cultural festival, the brain child of First Lady, Auxillia Mnangagwa will run from the 23th to the 25th of May. As the theme says, the three-day event embraces cultural diversity
By Paidashe Mandivengerei MULTI-award winning Zimbabwean teenage model, Hillary Makaya has revealed that she took from social media to buy herself a lavish house in South Africa. The 17-year-old model scooped the Miss Teen World Heritage and Miss Zim Intercontinental beauty peagant trophies in 2016 and 2018 respectively. Makaya took to her official Instagram page
By Showbiz Reporter POPULAR socialite Pokello Nare says her leaked sex tape some seven years ago was the worst experience in her life. The self-styled queen of swag said the video leak was something she never planned. Her two minute clip with ex-boyfriend, Desmond ‘Stunner’ Chideme enjoying some unprotected sex went viral on social media
Mirror The family of a teenager who died after being found floating in the sea off the coast of South Africa is appealing for witnesses. Sinead Moodliar, 19, was on holiday in the resort town of Umhlanaga in the KwaZulu-Natal province when she was found in the ocean. The teenager, who was signed to a
By Associated Press NEW YORK: Kheris Rogers was in the first grade in a predominantly white private school in Los Angeles when she felt the bite of racism among her peers — she was being bullied because of her dark skin. She tearfully kept it to herself, eventually turning to her older sister, Taylor Pollard,
By Robert Tapfumaneyi ZIMBABWE’S most educated model and reigning Miss Multinational Zimbabwe 2018, Sindiso Ndlovu has urged those who want to join her on the ramp to invest in their education as modelling was short career. The 23 year-old beauty is a holder of a double degree in Biochemistry and Statistics from University of Fort
The Sun THE winner of Miss Africa 2018 got off to a fiery start after her hair caught fire seconds after she was announced as the winner. Tears of joy from Dorcas Kasinde soon turned to panic as she realised her barnet had gone up in flames on stage. Pyrotechnics set off to celebrate her
By BBC.com UGANDA’S President Yoweri Museveni has criticised the newly crowned Miss World Africa for “wearing Indian hair”. Tweeting a photo with fellow Ugandan Quinn Abenakyo shortly after her pageant win, he said “we must show African beauty in its natural form”. Asked what Museveni meant by “Indian hair”, his spokesman Don Wanyama told the
By Associated Press NEW YORK: For Michelle Obama, choosing what designer to wear while she was in the White House involved many factors, from diversity to whether they were a nice person. Obama talked the decisions behind the outfits that made headlines during her time as first lady during a conversation with another fashion trendsetter,
