I’m single, ready to mingle: Chirisa

Brenda Phiri
Arts Correspondent

The best thing about the festive season is that it is so eventful. Diasporans come back home from all corners of the world and you will not believe what the sea just dragged to the shores this time around — Hollywood-based Tongai “Detective Trevor Davies” Arnold Chirisa.

Pirates prey on Charamba

PRETORIA. — Zimbabwe’s highly rated gospel maestro, Pastor Charles Charamba, will soon realise that next year he will not have anything new to launch as his forthcom­ing album is already on the black market in South Africa.

Praise and worship with Shingisai

Arts Correspondent
Zimbabwe’s talented gospel artiste and United States-based Shingisai Suluma will headline a musical concert that will feature some of the country’s renowned gospel artistes as the curtain comes down on 2012.

Media: When propaganda schema fail

Hey dear readers, this is Christmas time, let’s agree to have a bit of intellectual fun. Just a bit. This week we had a newspaper banner shouting, “PM says No to Mugabe”.

Women must rise above patriarchy

Lerato Manyozo
I recently attended a friend’s birthday party. As is the unwritten rule of Malawian get-together-parties or gatherings of any sort patronised by both sexes, the men sat in a circle with a table of booze in

Editorial Comment: Drive safely: Rather be late than never

As happens every year, some families will mark this festive season attending funerals of kith and kin killed by speeding and drunken drivers who think that Christmas and New Year is a time to get drunk

Yaya Toure named CAF player of the year

ACCRA — Ivorian Yaya Toure of Manchester City won Africa’s top football honour on Thursday, beating out his countryman Didier Drogba and Alexandre Song of Cameroon for the Caf Player of the Year

Paul Scholes plans to retire

LONDON — Paul Scholes plans to retire once and for all at the end of this season as Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson prepares for another summer shake-up at Old Trafford. United midfielder

City hit by injuries

LONDON — Manchester City’s bid to reel in English Premier League soccer leaders Manchester United has been jeopardised by injuries to key players as they prepare to open their Christmas campaign at

DPRK confirms arrest of US citizen

SEOUL — North Korea confirmed yesterday that it had arrested a US citizen in November, saying he had admitted unspecified charges and suggesting he would be formally prosecuted. The man, identified as

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