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The mountain is high
Back in 1926, America witnessed the clash of two African-African American giants — then they were called Negroes — over the notion of Negro Art.Was Negro Art a separate creative tradition ...Published: 11 Mar 2023 at 06:35hrs | | by @Jamwanda2
4 convicted for saying police are Mnangagwa's dogs
FOUR people were on Friday convicted for insulting police officers, saying they were President Emmerson Mnangagwa's dogs.Nobody Makoni, Kudzai Sachiwo, Jacob Chigodora and Batsirai Sorawere we...Published: 11 Sep 2022 at 15:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
War on shocking teen pregnancies
SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD Tawananyasha (surname withheld) is six months pregnant with a man whose real name and age she does not know.The two met when the minor was a housemaid while the man was a gard...Published: 05 Jun 2022 at 09:01hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's dogs is a compliment, says lawyer
"MAN's best friend" is a common phrase used to describe domestic dogs, particularly referring to their millennia-long history of close relations, loyalty, friendship and companionship with their human...Published: 23 Feb 2022 at 16:18hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's dogs comment lands CCC activists in court
SIX Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) activists appeared in court facing a charge of insulting police officers calling them President Emmerson Mnangagwa's dogs.Nobody Makoni (51), Batsirai S...Published: 23 Feb 2022 at 05:56hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Spirit of Morrison Nyati still lives
IF you are as old as Bishop Lazi, you probably would never be able to banish the irrepressible memories of those chicken bus rides from the village to the city, or vice versa.However forgettab...Published: 28 Nov 2021 at 07:41hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa supporters in court over 'Mnangagwa's dogs'
SIX MDC Alliance members appeared before a Harare magistrate yesterday facing charges of insulting police officers calling them President Emmerson Mnangagwa's dogs.Nobody Makoni (51), Batsirai...Published: 24 Nov 2021 at 09:07hrs | 17 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwean journalist survives SA horror crash
ZIMBABWEAN journalist and former editor of The Herald, Ray Mungoshi on Sunday night survived a horror crash in Gauteng province, South Africa. Mungoshi said he was alone and driving towards Jo...Published: 28 Sep 2021 at 06:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
We need new heroes!
Sometimes, Bishop Lazi is glad that his uncle is dead.The man was never the same ever since returning from the war.He was no longer the bubbly and chatty young man who revelled in the ...Published: 08 Aug 2021 at 07:16hrs | | by Bishop Lazarus
Mnangagwa accords wife national honour
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has awarded his wife, First Lady Auxillia a gold medal for her "outstanding performance in her philanthropic activities among 99 other outstanding institutions, civilians ...Published: 07 Aug 2021 at 07:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
West's Zimbabwean political project crumbling
There is an interesting quotation from the Old Man in Charles Mungoshi's "Waiting for the Rain" (1975). It is a quotation that epitomises his lament about the alienation that has afflicted Lucifer, hi...Published: 29 Mar 2021 at 06:13hrs | | by Ranga Mataire
The bane of deadbeat intellectuals
Talent seems to come with more than its fair share of baggage.Most often than not, gifted personalities belong to a pantheon of living gods that wow the world during their time in the limeligh...Published: 21 Feb 2021 at 06:58hrs | 10 | by Bishop Lazarus
Shaina amplifies Zimbabwe story
SHAINA is a movie that tells the Zimbabwean story on hope and resilience, it tells the daily struggles encountered by ordinary people in their day-to-day lives. The movie, bankrolled by the United Sta...Published: 05 Sep 2020 at 09:33hrs | 27 | by Staff reporter
Mungoshi dies
WELL-KNOWN author, poet, and actor David Mungoshi has died.He died Saturday night and was 71.More details to follow.......Published: 30 Aug 2020 at 08:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's first post-Mugabe feature film - to premiere in the UK
Writer/Director Tomas Lutuli Brickhill will host the UK premiere of award-winning Zimbabwean film Cook Off alongside other members of the cast and crew, including lead actress Tendie Chitima, and actr...Published: 25 Jul 2019 at 09:07hrs | 22 | by Staff reporter
Book Fair to shift focus
THIS year's edition of the Zimbabwe International Book Fair (ZIBF) will shift focus from its traditional ways of looking at challenges faced by the industry and concentrate on milestones and opportuni...Published: 25 Jul 2019 at 07:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Cook Off' movie set for UK premiere
Award-winning local movie Cook Off continues on its upward trajectory as the blockbuster looks to explore the UK market with the UK premiere set for 27thJuly at the exclusive Mayfair Hotel in London, ...Published: 02 Jul 2019 at 09:33hrs | 4 | by Agencies
ZIBF calls for papers ahead of this year's book fair
ZIMBABWE International Book Fair (ZIBF) interim chairman Jasper Maenzanise yesterday said this year's edition of the book fete will present stakeholders an opportunity to celebrate the milestone achie...Published: 28 Mar 2019 at 07:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe-born Jazz legend awarded SA heroine status
Zimbabwe-born African jazz icon Dorothy Masuka was buried Sunday in Gauteng province's West Park Cemetery, South Africa after being awarded heroine status in the neighbouring country.Masuka su...Published: 04 Mar 2019 at 07:23hrs | 8 | by newzimbabwe
Please Mthuli, tax these bastards!
"The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; may the name of the Lord be praised."Hallelujah!A story is often told of how Charles Mungoshi was once invited for a book reading of his Sho...Published: 24 Feb 2019 at 06:36hrs | 1 | by Bishop Lazarus
Farewell Dr. Charles Muzuva Mungoshi
As I did farewell our champion, hero, mind liberator and academic warrior, I must admit that we have been left with a seat too high to occupy and a bar not that easy to reach. We shall write but the s...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 11:00hrs | 4 | by Tapiwa Kapurura
Call to declare Mungoshi national hero
The Zimbabwe Writers Association (ZWA), through the National Arts Council of Zimbabwe (NACZ), has petitioned government to declare the late prolific and multi-award-winning writer Charles Mungoshi a n...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 07:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mungoshi burial set for tomorrow in Chivhu
Veteran award-winning author and actor Charles Mungoshi will be buried at his rural homestead in Chivhu tomorrow afternoon. Mungoshi died at the age of 71 at Parirenyatwa Hospital on Sat...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 06:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mutambara pays tribute to 'literary giant' Mungoshi
Former Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara has been paying tribute to "literary giant" Charles Mungoshi who died aged 71 on Saturday....Published: 17 Feb 2019 at 08:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Charles Mungoshi dies
Prolific writer Charles Lovemore Mungoshi has died. He was 72. Mungoshi died in the early hours today after battling ill health for nearly a decade. He had published 18 b...Published: 16 Feb 2019 at 19:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Travellers in long delays at Beitbridge
THOUSANDS of South Africa-based Zimbabweans who are on their way back to the neighbouring country are being subjected to delays lasting up to five hours as SA immigration officials are overwhelmed and...Published: 06 Jan 2019 at 10:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Generational gaps and false dichotomies
In the recent BBC HARDtalk episode, Stephen Sackur, the host, asked presidential hopeful Nelson Chamisa to respond to the allegation that some see him as a young man in a hurry.While the insin...Published: 22 May 2018 at 06:15hrs | 1 | by David Mungoshi
Tuku-Mutamba tiff goes a gear up
The Shona, who have a rich language in terms of its idioms, proverbs and other wise sayings have one which says Rina manyanga hariputirwi (literally translated: That which has horns can not be covered...Published: 26 Mar 2018 at 10:40hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zvimba Sandton project beneficiaries risk eviction
Hundreds of people settled on a more than 240ha stretch of land in Highdon (Sandton project) under the Zvimba Rural District Council face imminent eviction after the local authority’s lawyers recent...Published: 20 Mar 2018 at 09:55hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Ex Zanu-PF MP accused of assaulting Mnangagwa ally
FORMER Bikita South legislator Jeppy Jaboon appeared at the Harare Magistrates' Court yesterday facing assault charges after he allegedly teamed up with Charles Mungoshi Junior and Munyaradzi Shoko to...Published: 08 Feb 2018 at 06:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nama Facebook Live disrupted
This year's National Art Merit Awards Facebook Live broadcast announcement of nominees was abandoned following power outage.The organisers were broadcasting live from the Reps Theatre in Harar...Published: 02 Feb 2018 at 05:51hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere mourns Evangelist Guti Jnr
Self exiled fugitive former cabinet Minister Saviour Kasukuwere has remembered the late son of Zaoga boss Archbishop Ezekiel Guti who died in the neighbouring South Africa on Wednesday (yesterday)....Published: 28 Dec 2017 at 07:11hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Of names and texts: The lighter side of Zimbabwean Literature
Having grown up in that part of Zimbabwe where goats do not need names, my encounter with Memory Chirere's "Tadamuhwa" in the short story anthology, "No More Plastic Balls and other Stories", (2000) e...Published: 29 Oct 2017 at 22:49hrs | | by Tanaka Chidora
Jonathan Moyo: How one nutty professor nutted Zim media (Part One)
Many people talk of the gift that kept on giving. Its a good thing. But, in Zimbabwe, for journalism and journalists, Professor Jonathan Moyo was not good at all. Far...Published: 06 Sep 2017 at 18:17hrs | | by Maynard Manyowa
Mutodi allegedly assaulted at hotel
The outspoken Zanu PF activist aligned to Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa, Energy Mutodi was reportedly assaulted recently at a Harare hotel by some Children of War veterans.This was r...Published: 06 Sep 2017 at 07:05hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Give Arthur Mutambara a Bell's
Some truths are self-evident.The world ain't flat. You are your mother's child. President Mugabe will win the next elections. Single malt whiskey is for men, beer is for boys. Dynamos is God's...Published: 11 Jun 2017 at 10:43hrs | | by Staff writer
ZBC apologises for false report on Mungoshi
ZBC admits to falsely reported on author Charles Mungoshi's death. @ZBCNewsonline says they were "malicious rumours" and apologises...Published: 10 Apr 2017 at 14:31hrs | | by Ndou Paul
Charles Mungoshi death, not true
We apologise for indicating that acclaimed author Charles Mungoshi had died.We had gleaned the misleading information from the state run ZBC twitter feed.It has since emerged that Mung...Published: 10 Apr 2017 at 13:53hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
Cohabiting affairs on the rise
It is women's month and most women are in celebratory mood.Some are single, some are in relationships, some are engaged, some are married and others are cohabiting with their partners....Published: 04 Mar 2017 at 07:01hrs | | by Vongai Mbara
Heroes or herods Day ...political oxymoron of the day
The people of Zimbabwe celebrate Heroes day. A day set aside to remember the lives of disciplined, dedicated and brave sons and daughters who immensely contributed to the well being of our count...Published: 08 Aug 2016 at 15:19hrs | | by Wilton Nyasha Machimbira
Armed cop robs truck driver of R3,000 at gunpoint
THE Bulawayo High Court yesterday dismissed an appeal against both conviction and sentence by a Beitbridge-based police officer who teamed up with two accomplices and robbed a truck driver of R3,000 a...Published: 19 Jan 2016 at 05:25hrs | | by Mashudu Netsianda
Analyst mourns death of Chenjerai Hove
An analyst Alex Magaisa say he is saddened by the death of the Acclaimed author Chenjerai Hove saying his death was a great loss for the country and some authors who were gaining the skill of wr...Published: 14 Jul 2015 at 09:32hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
The trouble of Educating Robert Mugabe's Assassin
In recent days certain bold but infantile statements have been made that have caused some of us to reflect seriously on the problem of political silliness and historical idiocy in Zimbabwe. On the s...Published: 05 Jan 2015 at 21:49hrs | 3 | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Man in court for uprooting landlord's flowers
Veteran author Charles Mungoshi's son named after him was yesterday brought to the Harare magistrate courts by his landlord for uprooting flowers in her garden and damaging her property worth over $3...Published: 19 Nov 2014 at 08:18hrs | | by Fungai Lupande
Bulawayo-born actress breaks into Nollywood
Two years ago Bulawayo-born Samantha Ncube, now based in the United Kingdom, got involved in the acting industry by chance.Samantha's cousin recommended her to the director of a Zimbabwean pro...Published: 13 Jul 2014 at 16:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
NAMA award winners - list
"TSVIRIYO" hitmaker Jah Prayzah was the toast of the night as he scooped four awards at the 13th National Arts Merit Awards held on Saturday at the Bulawayo Rainbow Hotel, Zimbojam reported.He...Published: 17 Feb 2014 at 08:23hrs | 131 | by Arts reporter
Prostitutes flock to church after prophet 'delivers' Bev Sibanda
Prophetic healing deliverance (PHD) Ministries leader Prophet Walter Magaya has attracted several prostitutes to his church after apparently reaching out to adult entertainer Beverly Sibanda....Published: 31 Jan 2014 at 11:00hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Africom officially launches 'guroo'
Africom, Zimbabwe's converged network service provider recently unveiled its VoIP-based application, guroo, to the business community at an event officiated over by the founder and Chief Executive O...Published: 06 Sep 2013 at 14:02hrs | | by TechnoMag
Culture Fund and Sweden Award grants worth US$420,000.00 as investment to Zimbabwean Arts, Culture and Heritage
Culture Fund and Sweden Award grants worth US$420,000.00 as investment to Zimbabwean Arts, Culture and HeritageThe Culture Fund is an organisation that s...Published: 09 May 2013 at 15:23hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Charles Mungoshi seriously ill, unable to talk
Veteran author Charles Mungoshi is ill and unable to talk.His wife Jesesi Mungoshi, in a wide-ranging interview with a local publication, Jewel Magazine, in December told the magazine:...Published: 11 Feb 2013 at 07:10hrs | | by Arts Correspondent
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