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 …
Read More »In Magufuli’s shadow: The Stark Choices Facing Tanzania’s New President
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 …
Read More »Covid-19: Lowveld Filmmakers Embrace Computer Generated Imagery (CGI) Systems
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 …
Read More »Zim Engages Mozambique On Kadewere, Munetsi
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 …
Read More »Teachers Remain Defiant
Teachers have promised to remain deep-rooted on their stance to abstain from doing any work when schools fully open next Monday until government addresses their demands of a salary pegged at US$540. Last week when government announced that schools will open on the 15th and 22nd of this month, teachers’ …
Read More »Tanzania’s President John Magufuli Dies
Tanzania’s President John Magufuli has died aged 61, the country’s vice-president has announced. He died on Wednesday from heart complications at a hospital in Dar es Salaam, Samia Suluhu Hassan said in an address on state television. Mr Magufuli has not been seen in public for more than two weeks, …
Read More »Police Border Blitz Nets 8 000
Police have arrested over 8 000 people for failing to declare their goods and using illegal entry points at the country’s ports of entry, Nhau has learnt. Following the arrest of 8 299 people in an operation targeting the country’s borders, the Zimbabwe Republic Police has issued a stern warning …
Read More »Biti, 5 Others Recalled From Parly
Harare East legislator and MDC Alliance Vice President Tendai Biti together with five other party members have been recalled from being Members of Parliament (MPs), Nhau has learnt. Speaker of Parliament Advocate Jacob Mudenda made the announcement through a notice he received from the Peoples’ Democratic Party’s (PDP) Secretary General …
Read More »‘Mutoriro’ Makes Us Forget Our Troubles: Use Rises During Zim Lockdown
Inside a tiny room in Kuwadzana, a township in Harare, Solomon Sigauke* and his friends talk animatedly about football and listen to loud music. The misty vapour from the crystal meth fills the room as they take turns on a fluorescent pipe. Sigauke, 25, has no cigarette lighter so he …
Read More »Zimbabwe: Who Gains From The Public Shaming Of VP Kembo Mohadi?
Zimabwe’s second Vice President Kembo Mohadi was caught in a kompromat trap. Recordings of phone calls full of lurid sexual banter, thanks to intercepts that were almost certainly the work of a state intelligence agency, were faithfully reproduced on the Zimlive online news site in a series of salacious stories. …
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