The three young Zimbabweans; Cleopatra Ndlovu, Masimba Nyamanhindi and Sydney Chisi, who were active in the Zimbabwean civil society covering a wide range of issues including civic education, youth empowerment, women’s rights, and civic activism will next week travel to the United States of America, along with over 100 other young leaders from around Africa, for the US President’s Forum with Young African Leaders. Ndlovu was the Executive Director of Women in Politics Support Unit before she left last year to work on other community initiatives. Nyamhindi is in the leadership of Students Solidarity Trust. Chisi is the spokesperson for... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Wednesday, July 28th 2010 |
Sebede, Zimbabwe’s talented percussionist and tribal music artist, debuts at the Usual Place, Jameson Hotel in Harare with his new series of Sebede’s Love Perception Phase 1. This series of concerts comes after an esrtwhile absnce in the Zimbabwean music circles following an eight-months sojourn in Cape Town, South Africa. Sebede’s debut album, included the hit song “Eho,” and was followed by the release of a second album, “Upenyu/Life,” in 2009. Sebede has also been featured as a guest artist on Alexio Kawara’s album “Kana.”
Publish Date: Tuesday, July 27th 2010 |
By Novell Zwangendaba – JOHANNESBURG – Solidarity Peace Trust will this Friday launch the Zimbabwe Report, A Fractured Nation, at Devonshire Hotel, in Braamfontein. The report is an assessment of the effects of Operation Murambatsvina (OM) five years on. It looks at the combined effects of OM and the economic meltdown in the years that followed on the livelihoods and movements of Zimbabweans both within the country and in the diaspora. The findings show the continuing devastation of that operation and the meltdown of the years that followed and indicates the extent of the damage that needs to be addressed... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Tuesday, July 27th 2010 |
This Friday, July 30, 2010,more than 30 leading thinking and doers in Zimbabwe will come together at Jameson Hotel for a Youth social entrepreneurship cocktail. The event will feature the following panelists in a personal discussion of their life journeys as young entrepreneurs. 1. Farai Chakabuda- She set up Zim Events Resources Center , a training center that offers various courses in event management. This is the first training center in Zimbabwe that specializes in event management training. 2. Munyaradzi Shadaya- He represents the first Alumni of the Global Student Entrepreneur Awards and also the Regional Director for Africa-Designate for... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Monday, July 26th 2010 |
By Shout-Africa Correspondent MUZARABANI – A member of the MDC party was ambushed and assaulted during the first week of July 2010 by a mob of ZANU PF youth militia in Muzarabani. Mr. Kagura was heavily assaulted by a gang of more than eleven men armed with logs. He sustained life threatening head injuries, twisted wrist joints and limbs. Kagura told Shout-Africa correspondent in Harare that he only managed to flee when he fired a gun shot from his firearm forcing the marauding mob to disperse. The MDC activist, had visited Keba Madya,a member of the ZANU PF party at... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Monday, July 26th 2010 |
