adminEmpowerment board appeals for funds
The National Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment Board has appealed to Treasury to release the US$6 million allocated in the 2012 National Budget for empowerment programmes. The board’s chairperson, Mr David Chapfika, said delays in disbursing the funds were hampering efforts to help
Earliest Dickensian film found
LONDON. — An archivist at the British Film Institute has stumbled across a 1901 movie just one minute long which turns out to be the earliest surviving film featuring a character from the works of Charles Dickens. Bryony Dixon was researching early films of China when she noticed an entry in a catalogueCameron in real-life sea adventure
“Titanic” film director James Cameron (pictured above) last week unveiled plans to pilot a specially designed submarine to the deepest point on the planet, the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean southwest of Guam. The real-life adventure, as opposed to the ones Cameron has created in films suchRebirth of street theatre
Richmore Tera Arts Correspondent
STREET theatre has become an effective vehicle through which burning issues affecting society are articulated and sometimes dealt with. The genre uses humour to put across educative messages to
Fans vote for gala’s top performers
Entertainment Reporter
VOTES for artistes who were outstanding at the 21st Movement Celebrations Gala held in Chipinge recently continue to pour in, with members of the public voting for artistes of their choice. This was
Girl addicted to petrol
IF smelling gasoline weren’t a health hazard enough, meet the girl who drinks it. Lifting a red gas canister before the cameras, a girl named Shannon demonstrates her claimed addiction of drinking gasoline for TLC’S television program My Strange Addiction. “It tingles at first and then it, it burns theBigamist exposed
Two residents of the United States with the help of Facebook’s “People you may know” feature discovered they were married to the same man at the same time, the BBC reported. The US resident clicked on a link proposed by Facebook and got to the page of her husband’s new wife. “Wife numberGirl who’s older than her mom
Little Hayley Okines was told she would not live beyond the age of 13. The youngster suffers from a rare disease called progeria which turns children old before they have reached their teens. But now having celebrated her 14th birthday she has defied all odds and to celebrate she has published herListen to the poet
Title: Lazaruses and DivasesAuthor: Wellingtone G Kusema
Publisher: Heritage Progress, United Kingdom
Pages: 50
ISBN: 798-0-9557546-4-7
Poetry is back in fashion. The collection which Wellingtone Kusema entered for the National Arts Merit
The moving train of Chiadzwa
Tichaona ZindogaIt is a little trite to point out that Farai Maguwu, the celebrated “diamond activist” who wrote copiously and negatively about a place he had never visited has finally seen the light and for once spoke good