When Gamu Nhengu took to The X Factor stage on Saturday night, she wowed the audience and judges with her stunning, unique version of Walking on Sunshine. Her performance has led her to become the bookies early favourite to steal Joe McElderry’s crown, but life hasn’t always been so sweet for Gamu. She was just three when her dad died in Zimbabwe. Later, in a bid to give her family a better life, Gamu’s mum went to study at Stirling University, leaving her daughter to look after her brothers in poverty stricken Harare. Gamu joined her mother in Tillicoutry, Scotland,... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Monday, August 23rd 2010 |
LONDON – The British government has urged Libya not to organize any official celebrations to mark the first anniversary of the release from jail of Abdel Basset al-Megrahi, the Lockerbie bomber. “Any celebration of Megrahi’s release will be tasteless, offensive and deeply insensitive to the victims’ families. We have made our concerns clear to the Libyan government,” a spokeswoman for the Foreign Office said. Al-Megrahi is the only man ever to be convicted of the bombing of a Pan Am airliner over the Scottish town of Lockerbie in December, 1988, in which 270 people died. Most of the dead were... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Sunday, August 22nd 2010 |
Singer Wyclef Jean’s high-profile bid for Haiti’s presidency ended after election officials on the earthquake-ravaged Caribbean nation disqualified his candidacy. The Haitian-American hip-hop star expressed disappointment at the late Friday ruling, but called on his followers to act “peacefully and responsibly.” “Though I disagree with the ruling, I respectfully accept the committee’s final decision, and I urge my supporters to do the same,” the former Fugees frontman said in a statement. “I want to assure my countrymen that I will continue to work for Haiti’s renewal; though the board has determined that I am not a resident of Haiti, home... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Sunday, August 22nd 2010 |
By Novell Zwange –NEW YORK – A record label founded in 2007 as a record label for innovative artists of all styles and charitable benefits, both in the US and internationally, Global Damitow Records has announced the launch of the first annual “A Charity Record” benefit album. All profits from all albums will be donated to non-profits and the Recording Artist’s themselves; not the label. Damitow releases charity albums, compilations, Collector’s items and soon will be expanding into Publishing, Distribution & an all-artist’s profit Art Gallery. Damitow also has multiple incentive programs designed to give fans, supporters, companies and artists... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Sunday, August 22nd 2010 |
By Janine Erasmus – South African film Themba: A Boy Called Hope, directed by Pretoria-born Stefanie Sycholt, has scooped the Unicef Child Rights Award at the 2010 Zanzibar International Film Festival (Ziff). Sycholt received the prize from Unicef Germany board member Anne Luetkes at the film’s Cologne premiere on 1 August 2010. Every year since 2004 international child rights organisation Unicef has presented the award to a film that it feels best represents the struggle to uphold children’s basic rights in the Eastern and Southern African region. The film also took the Golden Dhow award for the festival’s best feature... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Friday, August 20th 2010 |
