By David Tumusiime – I have been a blogger for close to five years. To be a blogger was not always my dream. I wanted to be a writer. A published writer of novels and short stories, best selling in their career, and one day be invited to sit on a panel with Chinua Achebe and Wole Soyinka, the ghost of Okot P’Bitek winking at me. I spent most of my twenties trying to achieve that. I failed. Now I’m a blogger. I was going to say only a blogger. Then I caught myself from falling into a state of... Continue Reading
Caught on camera in China recemtly, The Zimbabwe Dance Company led by the multi-talented journalist-cum-poet, Nqobile Malinga, thrilled Chinese audiences with their energetic dances.
SOUTH AFRICA – With just 2 weeks to go, the 2010 Soweto Wine Festival, happening on the 2nd, 3rd and 4th September, is being hailed as the ‘Bumper Issue’ of all wine festivals when all the glamorous people of Gauteng descend upon the most happening place in Soweto, the Soweto Wine Festival. Visitors will enjoy Soweto ‘home-grown’ restaurants with the tastiest foods from la Kitchen Eatery, Roots, Asidle Gourmet, Masekeng Pub and Divine Caterers; VIP entertainment; your favourite Kaya FM DJ’s on the floor; a business lounge for the ambitious; Norman Goodfellows wine shop to buy your favourite wines by... Continue Reading
Zimbabwean renowned poet, Albert Nyathi today performs for all of SADC’s Heads of State during the 30th Anniversary of the regional body here in Windhoek, Namibia. He is the only regional artist who has been brought in, in a landmark arrangement between SADC Secretariat and Artists Trust of Southern Africa (ARTSA). The Artists Trust of Southern Africa (ARTSA) is a network of artists from the 15 member Southern African Development Community (“SADC”) operating in various artistic disciplines whose main function is to coordinate the development and promotion through smart partnerships, of varied cultural interventions at all levels targeted at artists... Continue Reading
HARARE – Zimbabwean information minister who threatened to jail journalists should retract his statement and honor an agreement to implement media reform, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Information Minister Webster Shamu made the threat on August 4 against journalists who used information he said had been leaked from cabinet meetings. Shamu said that journalists and ministers could face jail sentences of up to 20 years under the 1970 Official Secrets Act for using confidential information from cabinet proceedings to “further their political agendas”, according to news reports. The legislation, which dates back to the Republic of Rhodesia, prohibits government... Continue Reading
