Star Brite finale

Jonathan Mbiriyamveka Entertainment Reporter
After months of searching, testing and showcasing untapped talent it all comes together tonight at the College of Music when the curtain comes down on the biggest national talent show — Star Brite. The show climaxes with a two-day final scheduled for tonight and tomorrow starting at 6pm where five

Chipfumo to headline Dhewa memorial

Problem Masau Arts Correspondent
Talented guitarist Progress Chipfumo will further consolidate his growing fan base when he joins sungura icon Peter Moyo in commemorating his late father’s death, Tongai Moyo at Mbizo Stadium on Sunday. Chipfumo will be among a coterie of performers and artistes who include sungura ace Alick

America, here comes King Carl

Entertainment Reporters
Most Zimbabweans that have skipped a grade in school will tell you that they were considered too bright to follow the regimented education path.
They will tell you they were too intelligent to be in the grade their ages dictated. Not Carl Joshua Ncube though, the prolific comedian whose rise in

Unesco offers bursaries

Stephen Chifunyise Theatre Corridors
UNESCO’s International Fund for Cultural Development has announced calls for applications from young artistes for its Unesco Ashberg Bursaries for Artiste Programme for 2013. The programme that promotes the mobility of young artistes through residences worldwide has called for

‘Diamonds in his Son’s Grave’ hilarious!

Jonathan Mbiriyamveka Entertainment Reporter
A hilarious play titled “Diamonds in his Son’s Grave” that opened on Tuesday at Theatre In the Park is a play that shows how a family deals with cultural values against modernity. The Zinyemba family is caught up in a dilemma on the way forward after diamonds were discovered under their

Lodging objections for Income Tax, VAT

A client who is not satisfied by an assessment or by a decision made by the Commissioner-General may lodge an objection in terms of provisions of the laws which are administered by the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority. Objections are done in accordance with the following Acts: l Section 62 of the

E-Tech Africa Expo a success

Tonderai Rutsito Techspot
THE much-anticipated inaugural ICT conference was held last week at the Harare International Conference Centre over five days making it the longest technology expo ever to be held in Zimbabwe. The event, which started on Monday and ended on Friday, was dubbed e-Tech Africa

Putting property in a trust

Vengai Madzima Property Guide
A TRUST normally comes into play when one party transfers property to another party that would hold it on behalf of a third party. In some instances one can create a trust by transferring the property to be held by another party for the benefit of themselves as the beneficiary other than

The sorrow of a manipulated people

Posting her thoughts on an Internet social network, writer Petina Gappah had this to say: “My friend Nick Twinamatsiko has pointed out that no African has ever been in contention for any of the Nobel Prizes in science. I am not surprised.” It takes men of exceptional brilliance to make it into coaching the biggest soccer clubs in the world, much as a soccer coach has to be stupid enough to believe that what they do is such an important thing in real life.

It is like believing that the Nobel Peace Prize is an important arbiter for the success of Africans.
You have to command an outrageous sense of gullibility to believe that kind of egregious nonsense.
A people shorn of the past, blind to the direction towards the future and uncertain of the present cannot tell from where they are coming and to

Reviving the songs of our grandmothers

Sekai Nzenza
Sometimes songs just come into my head at the most inappropriate time. Strange how something simply pops into your head and you spend the whole day with the song and it may even stay till the next day or longer. I could be in a shop, at a funeral or in an important meeting and the

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