adminZimbabwe should use export taxes to industrialise
Gift Mugano Business Correspondent
THE long-term decline in the prices of many primary commodities relative to other products, combined with high price volatility, has been a long-standing issue in international trade. Many developing countries depend on one or few
Audius comes home to roost
Fatima Bulla Entertainment Reporter
The Diaspora pastures have always seemed greener for many but rhythm and blues musician Audius Mtawarira thinks otherwise and reckons home has become greener than anywhere else. Having lived in Australia since 1996, Mtawarira says
Amakhosi calls for ‘Nyaminyami’ auditions
Stephen Chifunyise Theatre Corridrors
In a move that is seen a strategy of offering the film and theatre fraternity in Bulawayo an opportunity to participate and contribute to the development of a viable theatre industry, Amakhosi Cultural Centre has invited performing artistes in
Mel Gibson testimony ruled out
A civil jury will likely not hear directly from actor Mel Gibson about the night of his drunken driving arrest because his testimony doesn’t appear relevant to a deputy’s claim that he was discriminated against because of the traffic stop, a judge said on Tuesday. In a series of tentative rulings, Superior Court Judge Barbara Scheper said she will likely block attorneys for Deputy
Sickness could not hold her down
Richmore Tera Arts Correspondent
WHILE to many people, being admitted into hospital might mean spending one’s time lamenting over the pain they are going through, for motivational speaker and author Apostole Florence Kanyati, it is a different case altogether. When she was
Zim is a jazz talent haven, says US band
Entertainment Reporter
Zimbabwe is an enormous talent haven of jazz that should take the world by storm anytime soon, revealed the visiting American jazz band Dennis Luxion/Michael Raynor Quartet. The jazz ensemble was holding a music workshop for the youth
Alliance Francaise hosts Adam Chisvo tribute concert
Lloyd Gumbo Herald Reporter
JAZZ sensations Victor Kunonga, Chiwoniso Maraire and Hope Masike will tonight host a concert in tribute to the late mbira guru, Adam Chisvo. The two-hour concert will be held at Alliance Francaise from 7:30pm. Alliance Francaise executive director
American Idol producer fights rival shows
LOS ANGELES. – “American Idol” executive producer Nigel Lythgoe came out fighting against rival TV shows on Tuesday, calling singing contest “The Voice” a “gimmicky” show and making clear he was fed up with defending “Idol’s” slipping ratings. Speaking to reporters following headlines of bumper audiences for this week’s return of NBC’s “The Voice”, Lythgoe
A dairy farmer par excellence
Fortious Nhambura Features Writer
“I had to quit my job to focus on my passion – dairy farming – and I had to make a tough decision that meant relocating from the bright lights of the city to the farm,” said Mr Lovemore Mugabe as he supervised the afternoon milking session of his 350
Urban well-drilling: Ticking time bomb
“Chitungwiza Town Council is failing to provide us with water to the extent that sometimes we spend a week without the precious liquid. “Water woes have forced us to dig wells and if you do find a house without one yet, tenants at that house are in the process of mobilising funds to sink one,” says a disgruntled resident of Chitungwiza’s Unit J suburb, Priscilla Simuka.