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Sakhile Dube unveils finale dress
With just hours to go before the Miss Universe 2024 grand finale in Mexico City, Zimbabwe's representative, Sakhile Dube, has unveiled the stunning gown she will wear on stage. Designed by celebrated ...Published: 16 Nov 2024 at 18:46hrs | 5800 | by Staff reporter
Mteki approaches Mukanya over Chivayo lavish offer
African roots musician and sculptor-cum-businessman Bryn Taurai Mteki has approached Chimurenga musician Thomas "Mukanya" Mapfumo to reconsider businessman Wicknell Chivayo's pledge.Last month...Published: 16 Apr 2024 at 17:57hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Mlalazi talks working with Ladysmith Black Mambazo
Inspirational music artiste Everton Mlalazi has become synonymous with staying true to his African roots as he continues to explore the African sound in his music.Having made a name for himsel...Published: 05 Jun 2023 at 06:45hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa targeting African churches
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is reportedly leaving no stone unturned as he targets churches with African roots as part of his wider presidential re-election campaign ahead of the 2023 elections....Published: 10 Aug 2022 at 06:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans clinch US$113 million property deal in Namibia
ZIMBABWEAN investors, including pension funds, are working on plans to take over a US$113 million (N$1,8 billion) property, The Grove Mall of Namibia, in Windhoek.The deal, which is at an adva...Published: 18 Jun 2022 at 07:27hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa pays tribute to Gumede
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday paid glowing tribute to Highlanders president Ndumiso Gumede, who died on Wednesday afternoon after a short illness.Gumede (76) died at Mpilo Central Hos...Published: 31 Dec 2021 at 00:10hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe must embrace 'spirit of optimism and confidence'
IT is my singular honour and privilege to have been invited to address this virtual Africa Reconstruction Global Summit organised by the World Economic Congress.The theme of this conference, Colla...Published: 10 Feb 2021 at 06:16hrs | 2 | by ED Mnangagwa
Mnangagwa places hope on AfCFTA, NDS1
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday said the National Development Strategy 1 (NDS1), an economic blueprint that came into effect last month, will give fresh impetus to Zimbabwe's economic recovery ...Published: 10 Feb 2021 at 05:47hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Kwekwe artiste cements African roots
Award winning traditional gospel artiste Kanizios Msonza (Kanimusic) recently released a single track titled "Good Morning Africa" ...Published: 14 Jan 2021 at 08:29hrs | 3 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
Rhodesian chemical-biological war crimes
As Zimbabwe celebrates its 39th year of Independence, as Africans we have either chosen to ignore or have been brainwashed to forget the terrible things white Rhodesians did to our own freedom fighter...Published: 10 Apr 2019 at 08:51hrs | 3 | by Sifelani Tsiko
Hollywood actress speaks on Zimbabwean identity
HOLLYWOOD actress Sibongile "Sibo" Mlambo has shed light on her African roots which date to Zimbabwe and her growth in the acting industry which has seen her become one of the sought-after actors in t...Published: 17 Mar 2019 at 08:41hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa left paralysed by a crisis of legitimacy
Last week on November 24 Emmerson Mnangagwa was in Murombedzi - former president Robert Mugabe's village backyard in Mashonaland West - to commemorate his chequered one year in office following his co...Published: 02 Dec 2018 at 10:17hrs | 3 | by Jonathan N Moyo
Brian Mteki dares Mnangagwa
African roots music singer, sculptor-cum-businessman Bryn Taurai Mteki, popularly known as Sekurutau, says Zimbabweans will regret not voting for him in the July 31 election where he was among the 23 ...Published: 21 Oct 2018 at 09:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
An inherited crisis of imagination: A Long Essay concerning the understanding of Zimbabwe - Pt1
If it is a despot you would dethrone, see first his throne erected within you is destroyed lest what you call freedom is the strongest of chains. The Gibranian perception sums the November 201...Published: 27 Jul 2018 at 19:02hrs | 3 | by Tshepo Mabalane Mabalane
Old Mutual listing on JSE boon for Zim
OLD Mutual Zimbabwe Limited group chief executive officer Jonas Mushosho said the parent company will begin to unlock value now that its primary listing was moved to the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (J...Published: 28 Jun 2018 at 07:16hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Sekurutau, Mukanya dream date on home soil
For Dr Thomas Mapfumo and Bryn Taurai Mteki aka Sekurutau meeting on home soil was never imaginable until this week when the two legendary musicians came face to face on a dream date as they reminisce...Published: 27 Apr 2018 at 15:09hrs | 1 | by Gen Nation News
Chiyangwa in album collabo with Mteki
Zimbabwe African Roots musician and sculptor Bryn Mteki, popularly known as Sekurutau, is putting final touches on his forthcoming album, which features local business tycoon Phillip Chiyangwa....Published: 01 Apr 2018 at 20:28hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Heath Streak for Ndebele chief!
Social Media users have urged people from Matabaleland to make Heath Streak a Chief after a video of him speaking fluent Ndebele went viral on social media.The video is dated 25 December 2016....Published: 23 Jan 2018 at 08:41hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Tongogara's handwritten notes on post-Independence Zimbabwe (dated 1979)
Late Zanla Chief of Defence General Josiah Tongogara lived way ahead of his time as he had drawn up the post-Independence architecture of Zimbabwe's national defence five months before the start of th...Published: 31 Dec 2017 at 08:20hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
'Declare Cde Chinx a National hero'
FOUNDER and chairperson of the Zimbabwe Music Awards (Zima), Joseph Nyadzayo said the late revolutionary musician Dickson "Cde Chinx" Chingaira has left a big void in the music industry that the young...Published: 19 Jun 2017 at 07:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Sekurutau to headline Africa Day Concert
Zimbabwe's African Roots Music maestro Bryn Taurai Mteki headlines the Africa Day Concert scheduled for the City Sports Bar on Thursday starting at 7pm.The potentially explosive gig which has ...Published: 24 May 2017 at 15:06hrs | | by Jones Mbiri, Gem Nation News
Sekurutau hits the ground running with 'Back from America' Historic Ndakabvakure
Zimbabwe's African Roots Music singer, sculptor cum-businessman Bryn Taurai Mteki a.k.a. Sekurutau continues with his "Back from America" tour celebrating the grand return to the big stage this Friday...Published: 22 Mar 2017 at 10:49hrs | 1 | by Entertainment Reporter
Sekurutau officially launches Jam Sessions at Club Saratoga
African Roots Music singer Bryn Taurai Mteki has officially launched the much-awaited JAM SESSIONS at his Club Saratoga ‘The Hauz of Sekurutau' in Highfield.The musician more popularly k...Published: 10 Mar 2017 at 13:51hrs | 2 | by Agencies
Mugabe gets his 'real' bust
Zimbabwe's prolific Multi-Talented African Roots Music singer and world renowned sculptor-cum-businessman Bryn Taurai Mteki aka Sekurutau who is back in the country after 16 years in America and G...Published: 27 Feb 2017 at 21:13hrs | 1 | by Agencies
Explanation for the origins of the Aborigines in Australia
"The origins of the Australian Aborigines has never been a mystery to Africans." As far as Africans are concerned, the Australian Aborigines, Trobian Islanders and Melasesians are all part of ...Published: 27 Jan 2016 at 12:57hrs | 2 | by Kufakunesu Mawira
Victoria Falls' sex tourism increasingly becoming popular
WHEN some foreign tourists think of the Victoria Falls, the first thing that comes to their minds is the scenic spectacle of the majestic sheet of falling water, the largest in the world. But not ever...Published: 04 Oct 2015 at 08:38hrs | 11 | by Stanford Chiwanga
Drawing parallels between South Africa's Xenophobia and the benevolence of the German Government
While it would make sense to an average African to tell him/her that Africans are very kind people, their philosophy of Ubuntu embraces all that is African and all those living in Africa, It is diffic...Published: 29 Sep 2015 at 20:01hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Tendai Biti's take on Mugabe's Cabinet
Wananchi, the new Cabinet was finally announced on Tuesday 10 September 2013, and many Zimbabweans are still grasping with shock and disbelief.The whole essence of an executive is to be ...Published: 11 Sep 2013 at 19:56hrs | | by Tendai Biti
When even a Devil cries 'Amen'
We are headed for very interesting times I tell you. The MDCs do not want elections before or by June 29, which is when the life of Parliament extinguishes itself. Yet they harp on laws which need rea...Published: 18 May 2013 at 04:37hrs | 1 | by Nathaniel Manheru
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