The Book Café & Mannenberg, Mar 19-28
SPECIALS THIS WEEK
FRI 20, 6-7pm, BOOK CAFÉ HAPPY HOUR! All local beers ‘almost free’! with special live mbira performance by MCINTOSH, Bocapa Xposure winner
March 24-28 ‘NGUVA YEDU - THUBA LETHU – OUR TIME’ Book Café Youth Festival
A multi-disciplinary artistic explosion of young minds of Africa – featuring top Zimbabwean artists joined by young giants in the region – in the big tent! – SEE BELOW FOR MORE DETAILS. Read more
Why are so many men colour-blind?
Everytime, everyday I happen to encounter men who are colour-blind and I dont know why, maybe you have an answer out there… this cuts across all races and cultures, what about your race and culture?
SA Police Scam- Beware
Got this by email. It may save your life or your car….
Last Sunday afternoon, 8th March, I was travelling back from South Africa with my wife - heading along the R22 from Witbank. Just after the R22 joins the OR Tambo Airport intersection a car tailed me flashing it’s headlights and hazzards. I pulled into the middle lane and the car drew up alongside with the passenger, dressed in what appeared to be SA Police uniform, signalling me to pull over - I ignored him and he then pulled out an ID document complete with SA Police badge, but titled “Tourist Police” in bold lettering. In that instant my mind raced, thinking that perhaps, just perhaps, SA were getting organised with a special section of police allocated to look after tourists for the 2010 world cup. Everything looked believeable with all three occupants wearing similar uniforms complete with Police caps, but driving an unmarked white Audi A4. Read more
Is God what we say he is?
To be called a Christian has become as common as to be called a football fan, and many Christians have ways of identifying themselves with Christianity as football fans with teams. Some, have uniforms to identify with, mottos or slogans, leaders, rules and cultures. Most will tell you of “kuChechi kwedu kunoitwa so”, ways and dominions.
Many, if not all will differ fundamentally and these differences however narrow or stark perplex to raise the question, “is God whom we say he is?”. Perhaps, further questions that need enlightenment exist but the fundamental principles of Christianity need defination. Read more
Nguva Yedu – Thuba Lethu – Our Time!
Pamberi Trust – Book Café presents the first edition of its festival of youth – a thrilling 5-day multi-disciplinary arts program featuring Zimbabwe’s top young contemporary artists alongside young artists and arts writers from Senegal, Ghana, Uganda, South Africa, Swaziland, Kenya, Ethiopia and Cameroon.
‘Nguva Yedu – Thuba Lethu – Our Time’ is a celebration of African youth and renewal, creativity and a vision for a future Africa - through music, poetry, comedy, workshops, arts journalism, open discussion and cultural exchange. Read more
Dudu Manhenga invites you to her Solo Encounters
This March DUDU MANHENGA relaunches her exciting series of concerts- ‘Solo Encounters’ – close-up interaction with the afro jazz artist in an intimate concert setting at REPS Theatre in Harare from Tue 17 to Saturday 21 March, from 7pm.
The gifted young singer/songwriter has been making waves in regional and international music circles of late, after coming from a Zimbabwe College of Music student background by the turn of the century, and quickly rising to emerge as a force to be reckoned with, both on and off the stage in Zimbabwe. Read more
To blog or not to blog
To plagiarize a famous Shakespeare quoataion. Why Blog? Indeed why get on the web and share your thoughts to milions of strangers , some who don’t know or care what you think?
Alas therein lies the rub! The chance to have my guts spilled  out in cyberspsace is a prospect too tempting to pass up. When one reads other blogs some evoke laughter, anger - the depth and breadth of human emotions.  I cannot promise that I will evoke emotion. hey a blog is isimply my web log — what i feel , think or want to comment on. Love me , hate me… want to strangle me .. Go Ahead !! i dare you…. if you can find me . Read more
The Book Café & Mannenberg, Mar 05-14
SPECIALS THIS WEEK
FRI 06, 6-7pm, BOOK CAFÉ HAPPY HOUR!  All local beers ‘almost free’!!
with special live mbira performance by MACINTOSH, Bocapa Xposure
winner
SAT 07, 2-5pm, ‘House Of Hunger’ POETRY SLAM “Working together –
Healing the Nation“   Poets register with Mandla before 2pm.  A
project by Pamberi Trust, supported by Hivos
SAT 07, 9.30pm, F.L.A.M.E’s WOMEN’S DAY CELEBRATIONS  – featuring
Prudence Katomene, Edene Timbe and Bernie Bismark on the eve of
International Women’s Day -  Come and celebrate!  FLAME is a gender
project by Pamberi Trust, supported by HIVOS. (see Press Release below
for more info)
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A visit to the Embassy
Filed under: Family, Friendship, Community, Relationships, Zimbabwean diaries
I paid a visit to the Norwegian embassy today with a letter to hand to the ambassador. I spoke to his secretary and then the head of the VISA section. They called up the Norwegian Directorate of Immigration who insisted that they are working on the case and- here this- I can expect to wait for anything up to 10 months! Read more
On The Zimbo Jam- Power FM Top Twenty- 20 March 2010Presented by DJ Chilli (Hazvine Sakarombe) on Power FM. 10:00-12:00hrs, 20 March 2010 Position Song Artist 20 Battle Field Jordin Sparks 19 If We Ever Meet Again Timberland ft Katy Peri 18 Falling Underdog 17 Emperor’s State of Mind Jay Z 16 How Low Luda Chris
- Famba Zvakanaka Sam MtukudziZvinosiririsa sei mhuri yeZimbabwe kusiiwa nemwana achine mukaka pamhuno. Apa ndinobva ndanzwisisa kuti Baba vake vaiedza kurevei uye zvinorevei muupenyu hwemunhu mumwe nemumwe wedu? Samson Mutukudzi gotwe uye ari mwakomana mumwechete wa Oliva na Daisy Mutukudzi nderimwe reruva ranga richangotanga kuyevedza rabva radamburwa tinoti mweya wake ngauzorore murugare.
- Salif Keita- A Music Legend Comes to ZimbabweOne of Africa’s all time great musicians, Salif Keita, will close off the 2010 edition of the Harare International Festival of the Arts (HIFA) on a high note with a long awaited main stage performance at the six day arts extravaganza set to explode into activity in Harare at the end of April.
- Power FM Top Twenty- 20 March 2010