For the first time in his life, Gift Livingstone Sango, 65, saw a painting by his father depicting Jesus as a Black man. “My father used to draw Jesus as Black because God is for all of us. He is not a God of color,” said Sango. The painting done …

Zimbabwe Theatre Association chairperson and founder of Dendere Arts, Getrude Zvenhamo says local theatre is slowly recovering from the jaws of the COVID-19 pandemic. COVID-19-induced lockdowns choked the creative sector and closed all its spaces. “The COVID-19 plight brought a new understanding of ourselves. As an industry, we have been …

PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday hailed the Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) for playing a leading role in the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic, a war that Zimbabwe has emerged victorious. Although there are still isolated cases of Covid-19, by and large, the virulent virus has been contained, and the country’s security sector …

Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa has promised decent wages, improved living conditions and title deeds for the country’s security forces if his party forms a future government in Zimbabwe. In a message to mark the country’s 42nd Defence Forces Day Commemorations on Tuesday, Chamisa also promised to …

Zimbabwe’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Frederick Shava is leading his country’s delegation in Pretoria, attending the mid-term review of the Bi-National Commission (BNC) at the invitation of Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Naledi Pandor. The Department of International Relations and Cooperation (Dirco) said Shava and Pandor …

Music superstar Jah Prayzah and Zim dancehall prodigy Killer T are set to add colour, experience and appeal when they take to the stage as guest artists at the Chibuku Neshamwari Dance Festival finals to be held at the Harare Gardens this Saturday. Music aficionados and lovers of the famous …

…VIPs not paying …power utility raises millions in blitz TOP government officials, critical security establishments, including police stations and ministry departments, were left in the dark last week after the country’s power utility, Zesa, switched them off in an attempt to recover US$62 million owed by exporting companies and ZW$17 …

President Emmerson Mnangagwa has declared a national firearms amnesty with all those possessing unlicensed weapons expected to surrender them by September 30. In a statement, national police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi said the amnesty also covers anyone who is in possession of any firearm which was smuggled or illegally …

China deployed scores of planes and fired live missiles near Taiwan on Thursday in its biggest-ever drills in the Taiwan Strait, a day after U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi made a solidarity trip to the self-ruled island. China’s military confirmed multiple firings of conventional missiles in waters off …

A Russian court has sentenced US basketball star Brittney Griner to nine years in prison on drug charges. She was also ordered to pay a fine of one million roubles (£13,430; $16,300). Griner pleaded guilty to drug charges but has denied deliberately breaking the law. The 31-year-old Olympic gold medallist …