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Published on: 10th March, 2010
Rhoda Makambaire and husband 'Flex' Sibanda (right) in concertA married Zimbabwean nurse in the United Kingdom who was arrested in 2009 over claims she had a 4 month fling with a violent rapist took part in gospel concert over the weekend as a backing singer for gospel artist Obert Mazivisa. |
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By Fortune Tazvida
A married Zimbabwean nurse in the United Kingdom who was arrested in 2009 over claims she had a 4 month fling with a violent rapist took part in gospel concert over the weekend as a backing singer for gospel artist Obert Mazivisa.
Rhoda Elizabeth Makambaire popularly known as Mai Sibanda (from the husband’s surname) [...]
Published on: 9th March, 2010
Jonathan Moyo I presume: Lovemore Moyo seems to be saying.Attention seeking former Information Minister Jonathan Moyo was humiliated at the High Court when his application challenging the election of Speaker of Parliament Lovemore Moyo was thrown out. |
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By Never Kadungure
Attention seeking former Information Minister Jonathan Moyo was humiliated at the High Court when his application challenging the election of Speaker of Parliament Lovemore Moyo was thrown out.
Lovemore Moyo who is from the MDC-T won the election despite Zanu PF colluding with a breakaway faction of the MDC to try and have Paul [...]
Published on: 9th March, 2010
Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe celebrates his 86th birthday with family. Photo AP The sanctions against Zimbabwe are supposed to hurt the clique surrounding president Mugabe. They may be having the opposite effect. |
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The sanctions against Zimbabwe are supposed to hurt the clique surrounding president Mugabe. They may be having the opposite effect.
By Peter Vermaas in Harare
Two young men with dreadlocks hung around idly near a mall in Eastlea, one of the better suburbs in the Zimbabwean capital of Harare, waiting for a potential employer to pick them [...]
Published on: 9th March, 2010
Jane Mutasa arrested over Telecel scamBUSINESSWOMAN and Telecel Zimbabwe board member Jane Mutasa has been arrested on allegations of defrauding the mobile phone service provider of US$750 000 in an airtime scam involving several company employees.
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By Daniel Nemukuyu
Businesswoman and Telecel Zimbabwe board member Jane Mutasa has been arrested on allegations of defrauding the mobile phone service provider of US$750 000 in an airtime scam involving several company employees.
Mutasa, who is also a shareholder with the same company, was arrested on Friday together with Telecel regional sales manager Charles Mapurisa.
Mutasa’s personal assistant [...]
Published on: 8th March, 2010
No case against Bennett: lawyerHARARE — Lawyers for a top aide to Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai on Monday told his treason trial he had no case to answer. |
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HARARE — Lawyers for a top aide to Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai on Monday told his treason trial he had no case to answer.
“We submit that the facts presented by the state are not sufficient enough to have a conviction against the accused,” Beatrice Mtetwa told the Harare High Court.
Roy Bennett, the treasurer of [...]
Published on: 8th March, 2010
The story behind Oscar's Kanye moment |
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We talk to the two filmmakers whose personal fight became one of the ceremony’s weirdest moments
Bigelow vs. Cameron? Streep vs. Bullock? Forget it. The most riveting face-off during Sunday’s Oscar ceremony came early: When producer Elinor Burkett wrestled the microphone away from director-producer Roger Ross Williams after their film, “Music by Prudence,” won for best [...]
Published on: 8th March, 2010
Film on Zimbabwe group wins Oscar"Music by Prudence" director Roger Ross Williams and Prudence Mabhena arrive at the 82nd Academy Awards Sunday, March 7, 2010, in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles. (Associated Press photo / March 8, 2010)
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By Michael Sragow
“Music by Prudence,” made partly with the financial and creative support of the Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore’s MICA, overcame several other strong candidates, including the American labor tragedy “The Last Truck,” to win best short documentary at the 2010 Academy Awards on Sunday night.
Few Oscar films have packed in more profundity [...]
Published on: 7th March, 2010
Tsvangirai pays tribute to his late wifeHarare - The Susan Nyaradzo Tsvangirai Foundation will be launched in May to ensure the continuation and fulfilment of her dream of a better Zimbabwe for all Zimbabweans, her husband, Prime Minister and Movement of Democratic Change (MDC) leader Morgan said on Saturday. |
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Harare – The Susan Nyaradzo Tsvangirai Foundation will be launched in May to ensure the continuation and fulfilment of her dream of a better Zimbabwe for all Zimbabweans, her husband, Prime Minister and Movement of Democratic Change (MDC) leader Morgan said on Saturday.
At a commemoration rally held at Glamis Stadium in Harare, Tsvangirai said: “After [...]
Published on: 7th March, 2010
Zimbabwe tribe has Jewish roots: DNAProfessor Tudor Parfitt from the University of London told the BBC. "It looks as if the Jewish priesthood continued in the West by people called Cohen, and in same way it was continued by the priestly clan of the Lemba," he added. |
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British scientists have succeeded in proving the Lemba tribe of Zimbabwe and South Africa descended from Jewish ancestors, according to a report by the BBC.
According to the report, the scientists conducted DNA tests on a large sample of the Lemba people, which confirmed Semitic origins dating back more than two millennia.
The BBC says that the [...]
Published on: 7th March, 2010
Detail from an Ark illustration by Gerard Hoet |
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The news reports that the long-lost Biblical Ark of the Covenant has been found in Zimbabwe has re-ignited interest in its guardians – the Lemba tribe.
But where does fiction finish and fact begin? “Until the story of the hunt is told by the lion, the tale of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.” African [...]
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