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  • Despite arrest Zimbabwes top rights lawyer wont relent

    As Zimbabwe approaches watershed elections, a renowned lawyer at the forefront of defending human rights activists, vowed never to give up -- even after her own arrest earlier this year. Beatrice Mtetwa spoke to journalists in Johannesburg Friday at the screening there of a film about her fight for the rule of law in Zimbabwe. Mtetwa was arrested in March when she went to represent clients ...

  • Zimbabwe Two Groups Win Big in Cook Off Competition

    SOUTH AFRICAN-BASED products company Tiger Brands is giving back to its local customers by engaging in different community service projects in Zimbabwe. Tiger Brands Zimbabwe projects co-ordinator Gwen Mpeiwa expressed gratitude at the overwhelming support from the local market during the Fatti's and Moni's Pasta Cook Off held in Harare last weekend. "Over the weekend, we had a ...

  • Zimbabwe PMs party pledges trimmer army just society

    Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's party on Saturday pledged to trim the army and ensure a free society if it wins upcoming general elections. "The size of the army must be rationalised taking into account the fact that we are in peace and chances of us going to war are nil," Tendai Biti, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) secretary general, said at a conference in ...

  • 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 ...


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The Night Heaven Fell (Les Bijoutiers du clair de lune) [DVD]

The Night Heaven Fell (Les Bijoutiers du clair de lune) [DVD]

Director Roger Vadim and his wife-star Brigitte Bardot first collaborated in 1956 on ... And God Created Woman, which was also Vadim's directorial debut after years of cowriting scripts for lesser Bardot films. Although not a great hit in its native France, the film had an enormous impact on how "foreign films" and "art films" were perceived in the United States. The film's exhilarating mi ... ...

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  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

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