adminTuku, Iyasa to play at Victoria Falls
Isdore Guvamombe
RESIDENTS of Victoria Falls will next week be treated to a free entertainment buffet when Zimbabwean international music icon Oliver Mtukudzi plays in the town, courtesy of the Zimbabwe Tourism Authority. Dubbed “Zimbabwe Cultural Night”, the free
Dealing with sick leave abuse
Taurai Musakaruka, People Issues
IN my last instalment I did mention that the Labour Act Chapter 28:01 provides for sick leave to employees. In the same Act there is provision for both paid and unpaid sick leave depending on one’s circumstances. Paid sick days guarantee
When health care is beyond reach
Roselyne Sachiti Deputy Features Editor
THE white robes worn by a group of members of an apostolic faith sect, the melodies from the various voice ranges and the bald shiny heads made their presence known in a bushy area in Chitungwiza. A middle-aged woman, Mary, helplessly lies in
Twinning and the future of African cities
Raymond Kiptum Features Correspondent
Africa’s urban population is growing at an average annual rate of 4 percent, while some individual urban areas have a significantly higher rate than this. Within the next three or four decades, majority of all Africans will be in urban centres.
Kawara to shine at Flavour gig
Entertainment Reporter
One of Zimbabwe’s seasoned contemporary artiste, Alexio Kawara, will this month raise his profile high, when he curtain raises for Nigerian musician Chinedu Okoli known in entertainment circles as Flavour. The gig will take place on May 25, at the Andy
24-Hour Theatre Challenge an exciting concept
Stephen Chifunyise Theatre Corridors
Every year the theatre programme of the Harare International Festival of the Arts provides a valuable and diverse theatre.
To many theatre practitioners, the Hifa theatre programme is a laboratory of theatre ideas, practices, concepts and
Libyan ex-rebels raid government HQ
TRIPOLI. — One man was killed and four people wounded as Libyan security forces yesterday repelled armed demonstrators who attacked government headquarters in Tripoli, a senior official said. The country’s interim prime minister Abdel Rahim al-Kib read out a statement on television denouncing the violence and vowing not to give way to “outlaws” making demands at theMan claims 49 lizards were for the stewpan
MUNICH. — A German man stopped at customs with 49 live exotic lizards in his bag claimed they were destined for the cooking pot and even offered to bite one’s head off to prove it, officials said yesterday. Customs officials halted the 28-year-old at Munich Airport on his way back from Oman and were staggered to find in his luggage a menagerie including 31 spiny-tailedJilted dentist pulls out all of ex-lover’s teeth
A DENTIST pulled out all her ex-boyfriend’s teeth after he dumped her for another woman who has now left him because he is toothless. Anna Mackowiak (34) is facing jail after taking her revenge on 45-year-old Marek Olszewski when he turned up at her surgery with toothache just days after breaking up with her. She gave him a heavy dose of anaesthetic and plucked hisPropaganda frameworks for Zim elections
Depending on the interests of the world’s super powers, various devices are used to either endorse and bless elections in weaker states, or condemn and vilify them.
We are heading for elections in Zimbabwe this year and for largely unexplained reasons, the Western-sponsored MDC formations are quite reluctant to participate, pushing the chaotic drafting of a new Constitution as more pressing than the illegal 18-month unexplained extension of the Inclusive Government, itself a product of lengthy talks between six hand-picked politicians; three lawyers, an accountant, a diplomat and a woman political activist turned politician — talks that were purely about three political parties coming together to form a government of politicians, by politicians and for their