The past year or two has seen many international musicians coming into the Zimbabwe. A lot of these shows were held at venues that are also used for worship ceremonies. One such place is Celebration Center and last year the church came under fire for allowing a lot of crude ...

The Rastafari community in Zimbabwe has been steadily growing over the past few years. The growth of the religion and the culture has led to the formation of the Rastafari in Zimbabwe Trust. I spoke to Ras Emmanuel about the trust and what it aims to achieve. What is RASZ ...

The term Gospel music has for me evolved through the years from the euro-centric idea of solemn hymns led by an immaculately robed church choir; sung to the accompaniment of an organ or piano.  The participation of the entire congregation in the singing was a momentous and welcome change as ...

  Christians all around the world are going back on their diets after stuffing themselves with all kinds of goodies, as they celebrated the birth of Jesus Christ during the Christmas period.  Gifts were exchanged; families went on holiday, to church services and to parties.  However the universal aspect of ...

Several weeks back we published a story about a second accident involving the Nehanda tree in Harare.One of our readers Dudu Masaiti had a lot to say in reaction to the story by our contributor Nonku Vundla. Below is her response to Mr Masaiti’s comment. With all respect due to me as ...

As a young person living in the 20th century, I’ve often wondered whether the formats for existence that applied to our parents still apply to myself. Everything has changed and the world offers more opportunity and freedom than ever before. From careers to relationships, to even general social norms, more and ...

The Bible calls on all Christians to be the light and the salt of the earth. One of Africa’s leading businessmen and publicly open Christians, Mr Strive Masiyiwa, founder of an international telecommunications company Econet, has done just that. Masiyiwa’s business acumen is as well-known as his philanthropic nature and his faith has ...

In yesterday’s post I spoke about the commercialization of Christmas and how this sacred holiday has been turned into an opportunity for manufacturers to peddle all kinds of ‘festive’ products to gullible consumers. Despite the strong urge to refrain from the consumer culture, most of us seem to go down ...

Festive cheer has gripped the streets of Harare and with only 1 day left till Christmas, the excitement in most parts of the city seems to be contagious. This year I bought my children a Christmas tree and true to the age-old tradition, we all helped to decorate our newest ...

At approximately 02:30 am on the morning of December 18, I was driving home from a party in the Harare suburb of Borrowdale when I noticed that a lorry had crashed into the Nehanda heritage tree. Despite the size of the tree stump it had caused extensive damage to the ...