A new dancehall sensation is born!

Richmore Tera
A NEW whizkid has entered the music scene.

Star Brite heads for finale

Entertainment Reporter
THE national finals of the talent search show Star    Brite will be held at the end of July or beginning of August during the school holidays, organisers have revealed.
Barney Mpariwa, the producer and director of the show, said this as contestants in the talent show went into boot camp where they received grooming tips ahead of the finals that will see the best in music, dance and other art genres being crowned and walking away with prizes.

Time to break away from tradition

The difference between the Zimbabwe stone sculpture movement and other art movements around the globe is that our movement is strongly linked and intertwined with the extended family.

Family discord at the heart of ‘Table Manners’

Entertainment Reporter
Family squabbles are at the heart of “Table Manners”, a comedy now running in Theatre Upstairs at Reps in Harare.

Massive corruption rocks fuel industry

Sydney Kawadza and Tendai Mugabe

Zimbabwe’s fuel industry, which is backed by a readily available cash-market, has become the latest target of a heavily pirated market

Biti warned

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Herald Reporter

CIVIL servants’ unions have warned Finance Minister Tendai Biti

President leaves for UN conference in Brazil

Morris Mkwate
Herald Reporter

President Mugabe left Harare last night to attend the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20), which begins in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Wednesday.

He is expected to join other world leaders and other stakeholders in formulating strategies aimed at reducing poverty, advancing social equity and ensuring environmental protection.
The three-day interface is taking place in Rio de Janeiro to mark the 20th Anniversary of the 1992 UN Conference on Environment and Development held in the same city.

It also coincides with the 10th Anniversary of the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, South Africa.

The conference will home in on two central themes: “A green economy in the context of sustainable development (poverty eradication) and the institutional framework for sustainable development”.

Marechera’s Shona writings!

Memory Chirere

Many Zimbabweans who care dearly about books have read Dambudzo Marechera. They keep some of his copies on their shelves. Usually there is a dog-eared copy of House of Hunger; the most well known and most referred of his books.

Know Your Author: Ayi Kwei Armah

Ayi Kwei Armah is a Ghanaian novelist and poet known for his visionary symbolism, poetic energy, and the extremely high moral integrity of his political vision. Armah’s first three novels were hailed as modernistic prose, while his next two challenged the Euro-centric notions of history. 

SA, Nigeria: It’s time to co-operate

Various publications by the Africa Development Bank, the UN Economic Commission by Africa, the World Bank and by this writer in The African Executive indicate an Africa destined for robust growth and prosperity in the coming decades.

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