A wedding cake designer from Langley, Berkshire has been shortlisted in a national wedding awards scheme. Natasha Orange who runs Slice of Time is in the final ten cake designers in the Hitched.co.uk Breakthrough Awards. Even at 14 years old, Natasha was baking cakes to sell or raffle at her grandmother’s bingo club in Harare, Zimbabwe – , so Slice of Time really represents a lifelong passion to demonstrate her creativity. Natasha began her career journey in marketing and communications and the storyboard skills she often used then help her work with brides on their dream cakes today. The UK’s... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Thursday, October 25th 2012 |
Preparation for the Gtel Face of Zimbabwe December finals have been stepped up a notch with the appointment this week of former Miss Zimbabwe (2011), Malaika Mashandu as the competition’s brand ambassador. The pageant also announced that Cape Town based beauty, Bianca Mpopoma won the public and judges’ vote to become Miss September. Malaika, who is a popular and probably one of the most successful former Miss Zimbabwe in the modern day era, will front Face of Zimbabwe’s marketing campaign, the grooming of the finalists ahead of the finals and street casting sessions to attract quality contestants to the competition.... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Friday, October 19th 2012 |
By Nyasha Chingono – Minister of State Enterprises and Development, Gorden Moyo has blamed poor performance of parastatals on policy inconsistency by line ministries, describing the state owned companies as dead. “Parastatals are dead. I am not proud of it, though I have done my best to design policies, but arrogance by some line ministers is killing our companies, “Moyo said. An upbeat Moyo was speaking during a National Indaba on minority languages in Bulawayo on Wednesday and said government does not have money to revive the parastatals that are at the brink of collapse. “We don’t have money, but... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Sunday, October 14th 2012 |
By Nyasha Chingono – Civic society groups in Bulawayo have blasted hate speech on ZBC saying it does not unify people of Zimbabwe ,encouraging Zimbabweans to learn from mistakes of other African countries like Rwanda where hate speech the infamous genocide. Speaking during a National Indaba on Minority Languages in Bulawayo on Wednesday, said that media play a pivotal role in promoting languages and misuse of language has political implications. “Civil wars have been fought as a result of derogatory language use on public platforms. In Rwanda people were butchered due to being labeled as cockroaches. “Likewise in the 80’s... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Sunday, October 14th 2012 |
By Nyasha Chingono – Bulawayo based outfit Family Voices has broken new ground by invading into a seemingly conquered music territory as it has almost become norm for the Seventh Day Adventist (SDA) church gospel ensembles to dominate acapella music in Zimbabwe. Inspired by Shower Power one of the oldest acapella groups from SDA, Family Voices is out to prove that they have learnt the art from their predecessors and can scale greater heights. “For us nothing is impossible.We know that acapella music in Zimbabwe has been an SDA domain for many years,but we are here to present acapella in... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Sunday, October 14th 2012 |
