Amakhosi rolls out ‘Plays on Sunday’

Arts Correspondent
As a warm up and build up for the 2013 theatre programming season in Bulawayo, Amakhosi Cultural Center’s ‘Plays on Sunday’ stage performances platform opens on the 18th of November 2012 with a play from Thabani Ndlovu. The play dubbed “Unpredictable” was written, directed and produced

All set for the Victors awards

Tafadzwa  Zimoyo Arts Correspondent
All is set for the second edition of the Victors Awards to be held at the Celebration Centre in Harare on 21st November. The awards, which are in their second year, will celebrate the contribution made by different personnel in business, Government, religion, art, music and dance among others. The

Zim musicians to perform for charity

Edgar Moyana Christian Entertainment
The forthcoming Zimbabwe Cancer Charity Week Show 2012 to be held at the Harare Gardens later this month promises to be a unique event which ties together Zimbabwe’s musicians who will perform for charity in order to help raise funds for children suffering from cancer in Zimbabwe.

KP chair under fire over Zim diamonds

From Hebert Zharare in VICTORIA FALLS
KIMBERLEY Process Certification Scheme chairperson Mrs Gillian Milovanovic yesterday came under fire from delegates attending the inaugural Zimbabwe Diamond Conference here for failing to protect Zimbabwe’s diamond industry from America. Delegates expressed concern that

TBA gone but not forgotten

Carter Chapwanya recently in Randburg, South Africa
Scores of people last Saturday, gathered at Sean ‘Sean One’ Mubayiwa’s house in Randburg, to celebrate the life of the late prolific producer Siphosenkosi Mukhuhlani, known to many as TBA or Playboy, who died last year in a horrific car crash that also claimed the life of his fiancée Theresa

Zim-India arts, craft ties hailed

Arts Correspondent
THE National Gallery of Zimbabwe and the National Institute of Design in India should come up with a curriculum and capacity building initiatives in art and craft to ensure artworks meet international standards, a Government official has said. Minister for Small and Medium Enterprises and

Mudarikwa: The moonwalk dance ‘king’

Problem Masau Arts Correspondent
Simbaneuta Mudarikwa, Uzumba Member of Parliament, is a poet, comedian and above all, a good dancer. The MP left the crowd in stitches when he imitated the late Michael Jackson’s famous moonwalk dance in Uzumba at the Mukombe’s homestead, during a birthday bash for Jah Prayzah’s

Flooding subsides in Venice

ROME. — Flooding in Venice receded yesterday from record highs over the weekend that left much of the city under water, as four people were found dead from flooding due to heavy rains in Tuscany in central Italy. The level of the water in Venice reached 149 cm on Sunday — its highest level since

BBC begins disciplinary measures over scandal

LONDON. — BBC began disciplinary proceedings yesterday over a news report that wrongly accused a British politician of child sex abuse as it widened the hunt for a new leader to tackle one of the worst crises in its history. The world’s largest broadcasting organisation, which marks its 90th birthday

Sex scandal delays Obama’s nomination of Nato commander

WASHINGTON. — President Barack Obama has delayed General John Allen’s nomination as Nato’s supreme commander pending a probe into his e-mail correspondence with a woman at the centre of a sex scandal, a White House spokesman said yesterday. “At the request of the secretary of

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