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Chris Rock and his wife are divorcing after nearly 20 years together. “After much contemplation and 19 years of marriage, Chris and I have decided to go our separate ways,” Malaak Compton-Rock, a philanthropist and founder of the nonprofit styleWorks, said in a statement Sunday. “Being fortunate enough to lead a life of service by working with those most vulnerable ...

Songstress Cindy Rufaro Munyavi has put the Zimbabwean music industry on the continental map, clinching the fiercely contested for Best Female Artiste in Southern Africa beating the likes of Zahara, Mampi and Lira who have an extensive global dominance at the All Africa Music Awards held last night in Lagos, Nigeria. Cindy, who recently ventured into fashion, opening her own ...

United States and President Barack Obama are livid with North Korea claiming the impoverished nation’s administration has called the President “monkey” and blamed Washington on Saturday for Internet outages it has experienced during a confrontation with the United States over the hacking of the film studio Sony Pictures.The National Defence Commission, the North’s ruling body chaired by state leader Kim Jong ...

In a story that most certainly is giving Zimbabwe’s increasingly powerful first lady Dr. Grace Marufu Mugabe sleepless nights and stomach churns, Ivory Coast’s former first lady along with 82 civilians and soldiers has begun trial for her part in the 2010 disputed elections and the following resistance that ended throwing the west African country into civil war. Laurent Gbagbo, would ...

Zimbabwean gospel ace, Lloyd Tevedzai who is now based in Canada has released his fourth album entitled Total Trust. The 10 track worship and testimonial album official releases online on ZimOnline Radio yesterday, will be available for digital purchase on all major download sites from Christmas eve making it the perfect christmas gift of 2014. “We will be shipping a ...

Windhoek – A group of informal settlement dwellers outside Namibia’s coastal holiday town Swakopmund have occupied municipal land and want to settle there. “We are overwhelmed by the huge numbers of people flocking here, and today we are 6000 people who will build shacks because we want to sleep here from tonight onwards,” Gotthard Kandume, the group’s spokesperson told a ...

Former Zimbabwe Deputy Justice Minister Fortune Chasi, fired by President Robert Mugabe on Sunday for alleged incompetence, says he will remain a member of the ruling party and there is no bad blood between him and newly-minted Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Mnangagwa replaced his longtime rival, former Vice President Joice Mujuru who was fired two weeks ago by President Robert ...

Recently appointed first Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who is dubbed ‘Ngwena – his totem, is effectively acting President since yesterday as President Robert Mugabe left the country for the Far East for his annual holiday, leaving the crocodile to test the waters. The 90-year-old leader of the Southern African country trips often to Malaysia and Singapore for  routine health checks and undisclosed treatments ...

Dozens of people are being held hostage by a terrorist who stormed into a central Sydney cafe with a gun and forced crying women to hold a black Islamic flag up to the window. Witnesses described how a man wearing a headband covered in Arabic walked into the Lindt cafe in Martin Place and produced a shotgun from a blue ...

One has to start wondering if their genuinely is a plot on the lives of those occupying the office of Vice President of the Republic of Zimbabwe. Barely hours after being named Vice President, Emmerson Mnangagwa narrowly escaped cynaine poisoning in his office. Now hours after being sworn in in, his fellow Vice President is involved in a road traffic ...