adminBrazil to invest US$17 billion in public transport
RIO DE JANEIRO. — Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff announced on Tuesday investments of US$17 billion to improve the public transportation system in large cities in 18 Brazilian states. Rousseff highlighted the need to invest in subways, saying that in the past, governments thought it too expensive to invest in subway networks, but today the task of building subway
Mereki: A pale shadow of its old self
Jonathan Mbiriyamveka Entertainment Reporter
Will sanity ever prevail at Mereki, the popular open-air braai and “watering hole” that resembles the “tshisa nyamas” found in Hillbrow in South Africa? Just when many people thought the usually brisk and noisy place had a proper facelift with the new
Tuku, Ismael Lo to bring Hifa curtain down
Richmore Tera Arts CorrespondentZIMBABWEAN music legend Oliver Mtukudzi is billed to share the stage with his Senegalese counterpart, Ishmael Lo, at the closing ceremony of this year’s edition of the Harare International Festival of the Arts at the Telecel Main Stage in the Harare
Fans upbeat as Hifa approaches
More Tirivashoma Arts CorrespondentWITH less than a week before the 13th edition of the Harare International Festival of the Arts roars into life, excitement has once again gripped the nation with fans expecting scintillating performances at the event. The event is a medley of music,
Tight bounces back
Entertainment CorrespondentThey are back. And what better way to make their grand return than on the hallowed stages of the Harare International Festival of the Arts (Hifa) slated for May 1 to 6, 2012. Performing in the Landrover 7 Arts Theatre at Hifa this year, afro-jazz crooner
Victoria Beckham talks cars
Victoria Beckham has already ticked off the boxes for international pop star, award-winning fashion designer, style icon, supermom, and luckiest wife in the world. She can now add automobile designer to her list. Since 2010, Victoria has been a creative design executive for legendary luxury off-road brand Land Rover, and the fruits of her labour have just beenMeaning behind the Last Supper
Richmore TeraA LOT has been said about the Lord’s Last Supper, giving rise to myriad interpretations about the true meaning behind the occasion. Many Christians may agree that The Last Supper was the last gathering that Jesus Christ shared with his disciples
Hats off to our self-taught artists
Art Brut or “raw art” is a label that was created by French artist and philosopher Jean Dubuffet to describe art created outside the boundaries of official formal art and cultural systems. It is an art form based entirely on natural artistic intuition. The term was later redefined in 1972, by art critic Rodger Cardinal to “Outsider Art”; a term broadly including self-taught orOil giants strike Arctic deal
MOSCOW. — Russia’s state oil champion Rosneft signed a major new Arctic agreement with Italy’s ENI yesterday as it sought to build on its historic alliance with US giant ExxonMobil. ENI chief executive Paolo Scaroni said Rosneft would in exchange gain access to some of the Italian firm’s European and US projects under a strategic tie-up covering specific Barents Sea and Black
Zesa pays US$10m to Hydro Cahora Bassa
Felex Share Herald Reporter
ZESA Holdings yesterday paid US$10 million to Hydro Cahora Bassa as the power utility battles to clear its debt to the Mozambican company. The money was sourced from two local platinum-mining companies — Mimosa and Zimplats — and will