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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 ...

  • Chunga Playing Different Game Altogether

    THERE was a time when Moses Chunga was a big part of the Harare derby. But football, just like life, changes a lot and when CAPS United and Dynamos clash tomorrow at the National Sports Stadium, Chunga will be on a different assignment altogether. Now coach of Division One side Hippo Valley, he takes his men for a home tie against Renco Mine, which to the people of that area, is also a derby. ...

  • Mhembere Elected Chamber of Mines President

    Zimplats chief executive Mr Alex Mhembere was on Wednesday elected the new president of the Chamber of Mines of Zimbabwe during the organisation's council meeting in the Eastern Highlands. Mr Mhembere, who was the vice president of the organisation, takes over from outgoing leader Mr Winston Chitando. Speaking from the Eastern Highlands yesterday, Mr Chitando said the winners would assume ...

  • Fight Over Name Mbare Chimurenga Choir

    Splinter groups of the popular Mbare Chimurenga Choir have taken each other to the civil court with each claiming ownership of the name. The original Mbare Chimurenga Choir is represented by Elizabeth Bwanya, who claims to be the founder and cited Pamela Tswanhu, Constance Chimombe, Nomagugu Dube and others of Carter House Kitchen in Mbare as respondents. Bwanya wanted the other members to be ...


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Movie Review

Elizabeth

Elizabeth

Right from the start, Indian director Shekhar Kapur lets us know that his first English-language film, "Elizabeth," is no Masterpiece Theater or Merchant-Ivory costume production. The film opens in a grisly, dank, rat-infested dungeon where several guards are shaving the heads of three Protestant "heretics," taking bits and pieces of their scalps along with the hair. The camera then follows them o ... ...

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  • Turning Art Into Beauty

    Imagine your wife, sister or girlfriend having her eyelashes done by a male make-up artist. Not only will he do her eyelashes, but also everything that defines facial make-up and enhances her facial beauty. Wouldn't a pang of jealous surge through your body, make your bile rise and feel like you want to beat the daylights out of the man who is touching her face with such tenderness meant ...

  • Its Derby Time Again

    STILL smarting from last week's defeat at the hands of bitter rivals, Old Hararians, Harare Sports Club are faced with another Harare derby challenge this afternoon as they host Old Georgians Sports Club at 3pm. This was the defending champions' first defeat this season and they go onto the field this afternoon against an undefeated Old Georgians who are the only side yet to suffer a ...

  • Zimbabwe lecturer jailed for Mugabe insult

    A lecturer at a government university in Zimbabwe has been jailed for three months for labelling veteran President Robert Mugabe "a rotten old donkey," in the latest such case, lawyers said on Saturday. Chenjerai Pamhiri, 38, a lecturer at Great Zimbabwe State University in Masvingo city, was convicted and jailed on Friday by a magistrate on Friday, Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights ...

  • Jailed for calling Mugabe ‘a rotten old donkey’

    Harare - A lecturer at a government university in Zimbabwe has been jailed for three months for labelling veteran President Robert Mugabe ';a rotten old donkey,'; in the latest such case, lawyers said on ...

  • In Zimbabwe Will Next Election Be More Peaceful

    Host Scott Simon talks with NPR's Ofeibea Quist-Arcton about Zimbabwe's upcoming presidential election and efforts to alleviate its international ...

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