21st NAMA Nominees List

Names of the finalists nominated for the 21st National Arts and Merits Awards (NAMA) have been released as follows: 1.DANCE AWARDS Outstanding Female DancerPraise Dube in Ngomdladla the dunamisNdomupeishe Chipendo in TeleungaLesley Mushaninga in Silently Complicated Outstanding Male DancerTerrence Kapesa in A Kid from BulawayoSean Mambwere in Silently complicatedDevante Sangaza …

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Zim Students In Turkey Left Homeless

Eight Zimbabwean students studying in Turkey have been left homeless after a massive 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit the country in the early hours of Monday. The earthquake also affected Turkey’s neighbour, Syria. They are reportedly safe but staying in tents, braving heavy rain and snow conditions which are said to …

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Syrian Jihadists Escape Prison Following Quake

At least 20 detainees at a Syrian prison – believed to be jihadists – have escaped after the quake damaged the facility, a source has told Agence France-Presse (AFP). The prison in the town of Rajo near the Turkish border holds about 2,000 inmates, with about 1,300 of them suspected …

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Massive Quakes Shakes Turkey, Syria Killing Hundreds

More than 1,400 people were killed and thousands injured on Monday when a huge earthquake struck central Turkey and northwest Syria, pulversing apartment blocks and heaping more destruction on Syrian cities already devastated by years of war. The magnitude 7.8 quake, which hit in the early darkness of a winter …

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Chipo Mtasa Appointed Air Zim Board Chair

By Purity MarungisaFormer TelOne managing director, Dr. Chipo Mutasa has been appointed as the new Chairperson of the beleaguered Air Zimbabwe with immediate effect. Her appointment was announced by Minister of Transport and Infrastructural Development, Felix Mhona Monday. She replaces Dr. Silvanos Gwarinda who was appointed substantive chair on August …

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Rushinga Brothers Violate Grave For ‘Quick Bucks’

By Richard KawaziTwo greedy brothers from Rushinga are in hot soup for allegedly digging up a grave where one of their sons was buried to recover US$300 according to a ‘spiritual revelation’, it has emerged. Police spokesperson for Mashonaland Central, Inspector Milton Mundembe, told Nhau/Indaba that Ranganai Magara (47) together …

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Belarus Joins Race For Zimbabwe’s ‘White Gold’

Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko this week travelled 7 982 kilometres, the distance by air from his capital Minsk to Harare, in his first sub-Saharan visit to meet President Emmerson Mnangagwa for critical talks on bilateral issues and contracts involving his cronies, but the big deal was the country’s natural resources …

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