Pushing Boundaries, Mixed-Race Artists Gain Notice

For years Heidi W. Durrow heard the refrain: editors wouldn’t publish her novel because readers couldn’t relate to a protagonist who was part black and part Danish. But when that…

Chinese Gem That Elevates Its Setting

GUANGZHOU, China — It says something about the state of architecture today that the most alluring opera house built anywhere in the world in decades is in a generic new…

Cy Twombly, Idiosyncratic Painter, Dies at 83

In a career that slyly subverted Abstract Expressionism, toyed briefly with Minimalism, seemed barely to acknowledge Pop Art and anticipated some of the concerns of Conceptualism, Mr. Twombly was a…

The league will be poorer without Chinyama

Isolated from the rest of the world for the best part of 50 years, South Africans developed their own unique style of football, according to the South African football website.

Dual citizenship and the new constitution

Lloyd Msipa

VARIOUS opinions are doing the rounds on the internet and other forms of media with regard to the issue of dual citizenship in Zimbabwe under the new Draft Constitution, should it become law.

Judgment in President, Tsvangirai case reserved

Harare Bureau

THE High Court has reserved judgment in the case in which President Mugabe has sought leave from the court to appeal at the Supreme Court against a decision allowing Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai to sue him for reappointing provincial governors.

Man jailed for raping daughter-in-law

Court Reporter

A man from Dongamuzi area of Lupane district who indecently assaulted and raped his daughter-in-law under the belief that he was fulfilling a custom has been jailed for 15 years.

Let’s give attention to all sporting disciplines

Zimbabwe’s Sables rugby team recently won the African continental championship in Uganda, putting the nation’s sporting image indelibly on the world map.

VP Mujuru launches Tonga language project

Prosper Ndlovu

VICE-President Joice Mujuru on Saturday officially launched the Tonga language renaissance project, which seeks to promote and preserve the Tonga language and culture through writing of essays, books, short stories and poetry that tell the Tonga story.

Parents go medieval

Steven Mpofu

Food and water shortages in rural areas due to drought and job losses for large numbers of workers in urban areas as a result of company shutdowns caused by economic challenges continue to grab headlines both in the print and the electronic media in Zimbabwe these days.