adminMabasa Avatumwa bounces back
Richmore Tera Arts Correspondent
TALENTED apostolic music group, Mabasa Avatumwa, who first stormed the music scene with their hit album “Tiri Munzira” in
National Ballet Centre roof collapses
Entertainment Reporter
The roof of the National Ballet Centre curved in at the weekend leaving the building unsafe and unusable. The centre which
‘Play Warriors’ receives rave reviews
Entertainment Reporter
“Playing Warriors”, a film written and directed by top Zimbabwean female filmmaker Rumbi Katedza received rave reviews at its
Christian films safe for family viewing
Edgar Moyana Christian Entertainment
The recent Zimbabwe Film Industry Stakeholders’ Consultative Indaba that was held in Harare and Marondera put the film
Lisa ready to take on the world
Ruth Butaumocho Entertainment Editor
Zimbabwe’s representative to the Miss International Beauty Pageant Lisa Morgan says she has fully prepared for the contest
Digitising revolutions: Africa’s major challenge
We are living in a fast-changing terrain. If you snooze, you lose. As I watch the popular embrace of information communication technologies by all and sundry, regardless of age, gender, race, ethnicity and belief systems, it is as if the Internet, with its accompanying familiarities such as Facebook, Google, Twitter, Yookos have always been a part of our lives.
We have become the touch-button generation that can easily talk about bits and bytes, cyberspace and virtual reality.
Despite using them daily, I’ve often remarked that sometimes I feel so ancient. It was in the early 90s that our small class on information networking (the Internet) turned some of us into cyberpunks – literally living on the Internet – netizens as one of our professors loved to call us.
We even laughed at a New York Times article of June 5, 1994 headlined, “On the Internet, dissidents’ shots heard ‘round the world'”.
To the print media, this was a major discovery, which we had since discovered as we witnessed struggles finding their way on the Internet.
When social media finally became the acceptable term, it
SABMiller launches commercial cassava beer
JOHANNESBURG. – SABMiller, the world’s second-biggest brewer, launched a cassava beer on Tuesday in Johannesburg,
Six killed in commuter omnibus crash
Herald Reporter
SIX people, among them a five-year-old boy were killed and 16 others were seriously injured when a commuter omnibus they
Tsvangirai a habitual liar — MDC
Bulawayo Bureau
PROFESSOR Welshman Ncube on Sunday described MDC-T leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai as a habitual liar who is clearly
Marange diamonds get KP greenlight
From Brezhnev Malaba in KINSHASA, DRC
The Kimberley Process Certification Scheme plenary session yesterday gave Zimbabwe the greenlight to export Marange diamonds without further hindrance, bringing to an end a long-running confrontation with Western nations over the gemstones.
Zimbabwe stands to earn more than US$3 billion per year from the three Marange mines.
The major breakthrough was described by an elated Mines and Mining Development Minister Obert Mpofu as “a great day for Africa and an historic moment for Zimbabwe”.
Zimbabwe’s decisive victory in the struggle against Western economic hegemony was the product of African solidarity.
Members of the African Diamond Producers’ Association rallied behind Zimbabwe in the high-stakes negotiations which reached a climax yesterday morning.