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THE sun provides a huge amount of energy and this energy is fully renewable, free and available for six to eight hours per day on average. The sun does not have to be shining fully to provide this light energy and can still generate power on cloudy days. In Zimbabwe we have an abundance of good quality sunshine throughout most of the year and this can beEmirates Facebook page a hit
DUBAI (UAE). — Emirates one of the world’s fastest growing airlines, has officially launched its Facebook page — attracting over 300 000 fans within the first three weeks. Millions of Emirates fans around the world can now connect and engage with the airline directly through Facebook. In its first two weeks Emirates was also established as the number one airline in Facebook in154 schools to participate at Cottco rugby festival
Mbachi Mutukula- Maregere Spots ReporterMORE than 154 schools are expected to attend this year’s Cottco schools’ rugby festival next week at Prince Edward. The festival, which has attracted players from all over the country, is penciled for April 30 to May 5. The Cottco rugby festival is
Cheetahs to tour Europe
Paul Munyuki Sports ReporterTHE Zimbabwe Sevens rugby side, the Cheetahs, are expected to leave the country on Sunday for their inaugural European tour on the International Rugby Board Sevens Series in 10 days time. After spending years trying to earn a stripe as a core
Glen Norah murder: Two soldiers in court
Court ReporterTWO soldiers accused of fatally assaulting a member of the Central Intelligence Organisation appeared in court yesterday charged with murder. Brown Mwale (40) who worked in the CIO’s Counter Intelligence Branch and based in Harare was killed
Sun sets on Mutorashanga
Isdore Guvamombe Features Editor
Every Sunday afternoon, onion-shaped women competed to dance in single file, in front of a bumper crowd of men, other women not so gifted in shape and hordes of children. It was a popular dance called Chihodha or Chibhandhuru, where women, with chitenge cloth wrapped around their waists, that left them looking onion-shaped, competed in wriggling their waists, head down. What is today Sele dance.
Their waists followed a rhythmic fast music beat spiced with ear-splitting whistles and awe-struck spectators, clapped,
Jay-Z’s music adopted for new film
Jay-Z music and F. Scott Fitzgerald prose: two great tastes that taste great together? Apparently so! At least for director Baz Luhrmann. The Australian director used Jay-Z’s tunes to break the ice on the set of his highly anticipated adaptation of “The Great Gatsby.” “On my first day he had Jay-Z pumped up full, and we did the entire scene with, you know, Jay-Z in our ear onManuel Bagorro steps down
Founder and Artistic Director of Hifa Manuel Bagorro announced before the beginning of this year’s edition of the Harare International Festival of the Arts that the festival will be getting a new Artistic Director after this year’s edition. In a question-and-answer session with the Herald Arts Correspondent, Bagorro shed more light on this development. Q: You announced in‘Lack of resources hampers local film industry’
Richmore TeraTHE local film industry has the potential to make it on the global scale only if it gets the support it deserves. This was said by Boniface Chimedza, an actor and scriptwriter who has starred in various local soaps and films like “Studio 263”, “Fragments”,