AFRICA'S yesteryear hits are set to be on the limelight on Saturday at the Rainbow 7Arts Theatre in Avondale when local artists perform copyrights of some of the popular songs from the continent. The show, which is titled Songs Out of Africa is the first of its kind in the country as previous shows have focused on local and Western copyright tracks.
TEDCO Limited has asked its shareholders to approve or reject its acquisition of the entire issued share capital of TN Financial Holdings Limited (TNFH) in a deal that will result in TNFH's reverse takeover of the furniture manufacturer. By virtue of TNFH shareholders having a controlling shareholding in the new company it means they can call the shots and hence the change of the name of the ...
THE Harare City Council has ordered investigations into the way several projects and outsourced jobs were handled in a move that could unearth massive corrupt activities dating back to the time the municipality was run by commissions appointed by the government. Council also plans to restructure some departments it considers contributed to the suspected corrupt activities.
ZIMBABWE booked a berth in the quarterfinals of the 2009 Orange CECAFA Senior Challenge tournament after a two-all draw against Rwanda at Nyayo Stadium in Nairobi Kenya yesterday. Rwanda topped Group B with seven points with Zimbabwe on second spot with five points.
ZIMBABWE has been recording huge monthly trade deficits with China since the beginning of the year in yet another blow to Zanu PF's populist "Look East Policy", latest data from the government statistical agency has revealed. The only time Zimbabwe recorded a trade surplus was in February when exports of US$28.8 million were more than imports of US$6 032 612, according to data from the Central ...
TWELVE Zimbabwean students at Fort Hare University who had their presidential scholarships withdrawn for allegedly supporting the MDC-T are stuck in South Africa because they fear for their lives if they return home. The students were struck from President Robert Mugabe's controversial scholarship programme in September for their alleged political activities.
Matthew Takaona finally left office as president of the Zimbabwe Union of Journalists (ZUJ) on Friday following the election of a new executive, but says he will remain a "powerful ordinary member" of the union. Takaona had been ZUJ president since 1999 and there were growing concerns from some sections of the media fraternity that he wanted to cling on to the position.
TONGOONA Charamba is living proof that in professional golf you are never satisfied.
HESTER Theron, the elderly mother of Commercial Farmers' Union (CFU) president, Deon Theron, who was facing eviction from her farm, has won a temporary reprieve after she successfully launched a High Court appeal against a magistrates' court ruling.
THE Attorney-General's office has stopped the prosecution of the Bindura Provincial Hospital acting medical superintendent who was facing 135 counts of corruption amid claims the case could have exposed Zanu PF big wigs. Beauty Basile was left to go scot-free after her trial was stopped midway following the intervention of the AG's office.
There is nothing that makes a person express himself/herself better than in the use of art, a Greek philosopher once said. This saying rings true for 22 boys and three girls from Mutasa district in Manicaland who were part of Cultural Crossroads, a programme created by the American embassy's Public Affairs section and Nhaka Afrikan Worldview - a community based organisation working at the ...
ZIMBABWE adopted the British First-Past-the-Post electoral system in 1985. This was undoubtedly part of the love-hate relationship that Zanu PF has with our former colonisers.
ARTISTS have demanded representation in the constitutional reform process saying they have been left out in consultative thematic committees. Musicians, sculptors, actors, filmmakers and other artists that converged at a two-day Constitutional Reform and National Healing seminar at a hotel in Harare said they would only be satisfied with a constitution that addressed their issues.
FIFA instructors have urged national associations in Africa to support their referees' associations if the standards of officiating on the continent are to constantly improve.
ZIMBABWE'S Under-20 team is set to play Lesotho in their second match of the Metropolitan-Cosafa Under-20 Youth Championship at Dobsonville here tomorrow.
FORMER Dynamos striker Bekhi Mlotshwa has led a deafening call for major reforms - in the ownership structure of the Glamour Boys and the way the team is run - to enable the country's biggest football club to realise its true potential and become a real giant in Africa.
THE Grain Marketing Board is back on the market on Thursday to raise an additional US$2,5 million through grain bills to finance grain purchases.
AS "the centre of knowledge and wisdom", the city boasts a strong arsenal of communicological smart tools of power in the form of radio and television and newspapers with which to shield its citizenry from rapacious, nefarious foreign propaganda exported to Zimbabwe in order to destabilise and confuse the mind for political gains.
MDC-T's national executive has suspended Zengeza East Member of the House of Assembly Mr Alexio Musundire from holding any party post for two years after they found him guilty of inciting violence.
An Ethiopian man who allegedly killed a fellow countryman in South Africa will be extradited to that country to face trial for murder after spending four years in remand prison in Zimbabwe on an immigration warrant.
THe Zimbabwe Revenue Authority has been ordered to reinstate a worker dismissed last year for failing to declare his assets.
A Kuwadzana man has been arrested and has been remanded in custody to December 16 after allegedly raping his 16-year-old stepdaughter and bragging to her that he would not be arrested because he had police friends.
The Zimbabwe Institute of Vigital Arts, the country's only design and new media college, will today host Ms Joi L. Roberts, an African-American telecommunications design expert for telecommunications giant Motorola, at their graduation and anniversary celebrations.
A Harare man ran amok and punched his six-month-old son to death after an altercation with the mother.
IN what could be considered to be one of the biggest economic empowerment deals this year, the Government has given the nod to a consortium of Schweppes workers and management to buy a 51 percent stake in the company with the remainder being taken up by Delta Corporation.
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