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  • Zimbabwes Tsvangirai says Mugabes Party is Dead

    HARARE Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai on Friday declared President Robert Mugabe's party "dead.rdquo; Tsvangirai said the African country's next elections will be a "formalityrdquo; and predicted a landslide victory. The lead vocalist is Zimbabwe's prime minister, Morgan Tsvangirai. The backing vocals are from the leadership of his Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) ...

  • Chinese vice premier to attend AU special summit

    Chinese Vice Premier Wang Yang will pay an official visit to Zimbabwe and attend a special summit of the African Union in Ethiopia from May 21 to 25, reported Xinhua. Wang will attend the special summit to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the Organization for African Unity, the predecessor to the African Union. He will attend the event, to be held in the Ethiopian capital ...

  • DDF Repairs Roads in Preparation for Polls

    The District Development Fund has started repairing access and feeder roads across the country in preparation for harmonised elections expected next month. This followed indications made by stakeholders, including the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission and the provincial government structures, that some areas were difficult to access during the constitutional referendum held in February. DDF ...

  • Tsvangirai Loses Bid to Delay Polls

    PRIME Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's bid to block a Harare man, Mr Jealousy Mawarire's court application for early proclamation of election dates to be heard on an urgent basis failed yesterday after the Supreme Court ruled in favour of the man. Mr Mawarire had approached the superior court seeking an order to have his case heard on urgent basis arguing that the life of Parliament and ...

  • Sam Mtukudzis Tombstone to Be Unveiled Today

    SUPERSTAR Oliver Mtukudzi, who returned from his overseas tour this week, will miss out on the three-day Mutare Music Festival which began yesterday to attend to the unveiling of his son's tombstone at Warren Hills Cemetery. Mtukudzi lost his son Sam in a car crash on March 15, 2010 that also claimed the life of his childhood friend and sound engineer Owen Chimhare. Although by yesterday, ...


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Fighting Elegy (Kenka erejii) [DVD]

Fighting Elegy (Kenka erejii) [DVD]

Japanese B-movie maverick Seijun Suzukis films often mixed sex and violence in bizarre and intriguing ways. In Fighting Elegy, he again mixes the two, except this time its in an either/or proposition. The films hero, devoutly Catholic teenager Kiroku (Hideki Takahashi), is faced with sexual temptations and turns to increasing violence as a way to sublimate his adolescent carnal desires. So, ... ...

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  • What Future White Viewpoint

    We are headed for very interesting times I tell you. The MDCs do not want elections before or by June 29, which is when the life of Parliament extinguishes itself. Yet they harp on laws which need realignment with the new constitution when it comes into force, and all this before we go for elections. This is increasingly sounding like a precondition. Those laws would have to be passed by ...

  • ZEC to Start New Voter Registration Exercise

    The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission said yesterday that it will start a new voter registration exercise once President Mugabe assents to the new constitution, but says funding for the process has to be released now. Zec chairperson Justice Rita Makarau said after meeting with fellow commissioners to plan for the new voter registration and to exchange experiences on the on-going exercise that ends ...

  • Can the Derby Come to Life

    THE world's most famous football clash for over half a century has been the "El Classico" in Spain, featuring Barcelona and Real Madrid. From the late '50s until now, the razzmatazz, emotional and dazzling encounters that have engulfed the football globe, whenever these two giants clash, has lost none of its sparkle. Real's Alfredo di Stefano and Barca's Josep ...

  • Teen Maternal Deaths Up

    Teenagers in the 15-19 years age group constitute a quarter of institutional maternal deaths recorded between January and July this year, a Government analysis has revealed. According to the analysis produced by the reproductive health unit in the Health and Child Welfare Ministry, a total of 224 death notification forms were received at the head office. It is from these forms that data was ...

  • Hosiah Chipanga On Enigmatic Lifestyle

    AFTER more than three decades of churning out sungura tunes on a gospel tip tackling social ills in a biting and subliminal way, Hosiah Chipanga's personality has bubbled to the surface in a big way. Now a ripe 61 years old, Chipanga showcases himself as an apostle, a spirit medium, a state advisor and a politician. Chipanga has created an array of confusing alter egos which have now ...

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