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

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 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.

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

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

New music channel to play hits from the past

Fans of the biggest all-time music hits and legendary artists from the ‘70s, ‘80s, ‘90s and early ‘00s have been indulging in their love of classic hits beginning yesterday after music TV channel VH1 Classic replaced VH1 on the DStv platform. Targeting mature music lovers, VH1 Classic is the latest

Robert, Kristen dazzle at film premiere

Her relationship with rumoured on-again boyfriend Robert Pattinson was rocked after she had an affair with married Snow White And The Huntsman director Rupert Sanders earlier this year. But Kristen Stewart made sure to divert all the attention from the scandal onto her very racy outfit at the

Millennium goes bust

Martin Kadzere Senior Business Reporter
MILLENNIUM Tobacco, a recently established tobacco auction floor is technically insolvent and is likely to be liquidated, the firm’s financial statement has shown. The company, which is in its second year of operation, is facing serious viability constraints as its liabilities at US$4,3 million outstrip

Shot in the arm for farmers

Golden Sibanda and Rumbidzayi Zinyuke
Government has unveiled a US$15 million agricultural credit facility to Agribank for lending to A2 farmers for maize production. Speaking at a Press briefing in Harare yesterday, Agribank chief executive Mr Sam Malaba said an initial US$5 million had already been disbursed to Agribank and farmers

ZETDC seeks tariff increase

Business Reporter
ZIMBABWE Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company, a subsidiary of Zesa Holdings, has applied for a tariff increase, a few days after the Administrative Court nullified an “illegal” upward tariff review of September 2011. ZETDC has proposed a tariff increase of an average US9,94c kilowatt

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