adminEqual concern: Remedying injustice
Author of “Sovereign Virtue,” Ronald Dworkin wrote, “Equal concern is the sovereign virtue of political community: without it government is only tyranny.” This writer wrote about the Zimbabwean revolution last week, lamenting bitterly the intransigence and inexorability of elite bureaucrats and that of politicians at whose alter these arrogant officials worship in
Club Shanga leaves for Mozambique
Wenceslaus Murape
Marondera-based Club Shanga on Monday left for the Mozambican capital of Maputo where they were invited as guest performers at the Music Crossroads Inter-Regional Finals. Club Shanga were invited as the reigning inter-regional winners, after
Bob Marley documentary premieres in Berlin
BERLIN. – A hotly awaited documentary on Bob Marley has premiered to cheers at the Berlin film festival, tracking his journey from bullied biracial Jamaican boy to reggae superstar. “Marley” by Oscar-winning Scottish film-maker Kevin Macdonald is a two-and-half-hour-long tribute to a child of the Kingston ghettos who made reggae a global phenomenon by
Reps winds back the clock
Entertainment Reporter
More than 30 hit songs from the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s will be featured in a new musical review at Harare’s Reps Theatre, when the show called Shout! runs from February 16 to March 3. The production is a fun family show with a cast of over 40
Shower Power still going strong
Shower Power, one of Zimbabwe’s most promising gospel accapella groups, has grown in leaps and bounds, transforming itself into a musical outfit that is increasingly capturing the hearts and minds of many people in Zimbabwe and abroad.
Specialising in acapella, the all-male member group has defied many challenges that came along its way, and today boasts
Manyeruke’s passion for farming
Vimbai Sibanda Entertainment Reporter
GOSPEL supremo Baba Machanic Joseph Manyeruke might be keeping a low profile but the decorated singer insists is not down and out – yet. After releasing his 25th album entitled “Muchandiziva Here?” in 2011, shortly after his return from the
Dance groups cry foul over Nama ‘snub’
Mandla Dingani Entertainment Reporter
Some contemporary dance groups are fuming over the National Arts Merit Awards decision to throw out their nomination papers in favour of the classic and traditional dancers. According to the selection process, artistes were required to fill in forms that
Global Fund disbursement expected soon
Health Reporter
RELEASE of funds for tuberculosis and HIV for phase two under the Global Fund to Fight HIV and Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria round eight could be approved this month following the fund team’s visit to Zimbabwe recently. In an interview after
Fighting the cancer scourge: Together it is possible!
This year the World Cancer Day was commemorated under the theme, “Preventing cancer and raising quality of life for cancer patients: Together it is possible”. The World Cancer Day commemorated internationally every year on the February 4 provides an opportunity for all of us to take stock of our actions and their consequences on our lives and on the lives of those
Two succumb to typhoid, 2 000 treated
Health Reporter
TWO people have died and about 2 000 patients have been treated of typhoid since the first case was recorded last year in October. Harare City Council Director of Health Services Dr Prosper Chonzi said one fatality was that of a 15-year-old boy who