Engagement of stakeholders in planning and implementation of council business is vital Kadoma’s City Council is determined to forge ahead on a progressive trajectory, an interactive forum has heard. Town clerk Malvern Dondo made the remarks in the closing stages of a meeting convened last Thursday by the city fathers …

Swedish based musician and cultural ambassador Makandire Chezhira Chikutu a.k.a ManLuckerz has called on entertainment stakeholders to educate artistes on how they can benefit from online music platforms. This comes at a time when many local musicians are distributing their music online with little or no revenue. Enterprising individuals have …

Bindura’s Johanne Masowe WeChishanu prophet and leader Madzibaba Rakeni Gumbira of Chiwaridzo has gone insane after leading his congregants in a three day prayer session on top of the prohibited and sacred Jeta mountain. The sacred mountain is located in Masembura communal lands at Manhenga. Nhau/Indaba had the chance to …

As the Zimbabwean crisis deepens, many in the media and academic fraternity castigate their countrymen as docile, unable to resolve their perennial economic woes due to a reluctance to speak out against corruption and State Capture. Young people have been on the receiving end of these aspersions. There is much …

AstraZeneca on Wednesday released new data on its COVID-19 vaccine — which the company says shows a 76 percent effectiveness rate in preventing symptomatic cases of the coronavirus. The data release is the latest salvo in a back-and-forth with US regulators, who accused the London-based pharmaceutical company of “cherry picking” …

Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa and some opposition politicians received China’s Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine in the tourist resort of Victoria Falls on Wednesday as part of efforts to encourage citizens to get inoculated. Zimbabwe has registered vaccines from China, India and Russia for emergency use but none so far from Western …

In the BBC series of letters from African journalists, Ghanaian writer Elizabeth Ohene considers the global popularity of her country’s fabric in the wake of it appearing in a Louis Vuitton fashion show. ___________________________________________________________________ We in Ghana have absolute confidence in our fashion sense. We also happen to believe that …

The sudden death of Tanzania’s President John Pombe Magufuli has thrown the East African nation into a period of political uncertainty. Vice-president, Samia Suluhu Hassan, has been sworn in as his successor, making her Tanzania’s first woman president. The transition is all the more challenging given the major rupture – both political …

By Costain Shamu Popular Chiredzi filmmakers Boaner Ginnah Entertainment, trading as BGE Zim movies, recently embraced an electronic system for movie production as a way of circumnavigating the protocols necessary to avert the spread of Covid-19 through gatherings. The move, which is an initiative the company adopted to try and …

The Government of Zimbabwe has engaged Mozambique to allow France-based footballers Tino Kadewere and Marshall Munetsi to use their chartered plane to travel for the Afcon qualifiers. The Mozambique FA is chartering it’s players playing in France and ZIFA wants to capitalise on that. The French football chiefs have indicated …