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Richmore TeraALTHOUGH music has become the dominant crowd puller at Hifa, there are however other genres that are attracting huge crowds at the festival. One of such genres is poetry, which has emerged from the shadows to become one of the most-followed
Children in for a big treat
Entertainment ReporterCHILDREN will have something to smile about at this year’s Harare International Festival of Arts, where they are expected to take part in a number of activities at the National Art Gallery of Zimbabwe. Hifa started in Harare on Tuesday. The Gallery has
Visual artists eye better fortunes
Richmore Tera Arts CorrespondentVISUAL artists who are selling their artifacts at the on-going Harare International Festival of the Arts are confident of reaping better profits this year than in previous years. They said this was largely due to the increased number of people who had
No going back on land repossessions — Dinha
Obert Chifamba and Elita Chikwati
GOVERNMENT has adopted a natio-nal policy to either repossess or downsize idle or under-utilised land for redistribution to the landless.
Mashonaland Central Governor and Resident Minister Advocate Martin Dinha yesterday said Government was not going back on repossessing land from underperforming farmers.
His remarks come in the wake of the repossession of land from farmers at Calgary Farm in Mazowe which was then allocated to Kombo Moyana Junior, son to former Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Governor Dr Kombo Moyana and another farmer, Georgina Brown.
West African ‘Flavour’ comes to Harare
Ruth Butaumocho Entertainment Editor
Zimbabwean music fans will later this month be treated to some West African flavour, when Nigerian musician Chinedu Okoli, better known as Flavour, shares the stage with Oliver Mtukudzi in Harare. Flavour is riding high with three of his hit
Schools face levy audits
Felex Share Herald Reporter
GOVERNMENT has dispatched auditors to schools countrywide to investigate the abuse of levies by headmasters and School Development Associations.
Four school heads from Gutu District have since been charged with fraud and jailed for 18 months each.
The headmasters are for Chimedza Secondary, Matombo, Zengeya and Munjera primary schools.
A head at a Bikita school is reportedly on the run after stealing US$14 000.
Education, Sport, Arts and Culture Minister David Coltart on Wednesday confirmed the auditors had begun work in most schools.
Those found guilty will be prosecuted, said Minister Coltart who declined to name some of the schools.
Headmasters and the schools they defrauded will be named after the national audit.
Other school heads who misused school funds are reportedly leaving their workstations in a huff fearing arrests.
Ncube’s body arrives for burial
THE body of Zanu-PF deputy secre-tary for administration Cde Edson Ncube, who died in Bulawayo on Sunday, arrived in Harare yesterday for burial at the National Heroes Acre today.
The body arrived in an Air Force of Zimbabwe plane before being taken to the Zimbabwe National Army’s One Commando Barracks where it lay in state.
Cde Ncube’s mother, sisters, daughter and four sons accompanied the body.
Home Affairs co-Minister Kembo Mohadi said the nation has lost a gallant fighter who contributed imme-nsely in the liberation struggle.
“We worked together with Cde Ncube. He was a freedom fighter and a liberator. The nation has lost, he was not yours (the family) alone, but ours,” he said.
Minister Mohadi said the burial arrangements were now in the hands of the State.
He briefed the family on today’s programme and all other logistics.
Religion as means to achieve selfish end
Politics, which is characterised by the continuous struggle for power and scarce resources, has never been this interesting before. The international system is abuzz with political struggles ranging from the American race for the White House in November, Sarkozy struggling to survive a Francois Hollande electoral whitewash, President Jacob Zuma strategising on how to survive a second term in office, President Joice Banda thinking of ways of maintaining her power in a once male-dominated political system and down to the Zimbabwean opposition party and its pro-media outlets trying by all means possible to glue Humpty-Dumpty’s legitimacy together again through respected religious personalities.The Zimbabwean power struggle has now taken a new twist as the neo-liberal opposition political party has now turned to
Nehanda and the tradition of resistance
Isdore Guvamombe Features EditorUNLIKE all other mediums, Nehanda is believed to have two separate, equally legitimate traditions of mediums, one in the Manzou (Mazowe) region near Harare, the other in Dande, north of Guruve.
The legendary medium of the Mazowe Nehanda, a woman named Charwe, was a major leader of the 1894-96 rebellion against the new colonial state.
Despite limited resources, she led the black resistance and fought the whites with spears, bows and arrows, while the enemy used guns.
When the rebellion failed she was among the last of the leaders to be captured. Together with another leader of the rebellion, the medium of Kaguvi, she was sentenced to death and hanged by the British on April 27 but her heroic role has
Nehanda and the tradition of resistance
Isdore Guvamombe Features EditorUNLIKE all other mediums, Nehanda is believed to have two separate, equally legitimate traditions of mediums, one in the Manzou (Mazowe) region near Harare, the other in Dande, north of Guruve.
The legendary medium of the Mazowe Nehanda, a woman named Charwe, was a major leader of the 1894-96 rebellion against the new colonial state.
Despite limited resources, she led the black resistance and fought the whites with spears, bows and arrows, while the enemy used guns.
When the rebellion failed she was among the last of the leaders to be captured. Together with another leader of the rebellion, the medium of Kaguvi, she was sentenced to death and hanged by the British on April 27 but her heroic role has