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On the evidence of its first month, it's the clearest export plan we've seen from a local artist this year.
A fluid engineer back trackside with Aston Martin, an electronics designer who joined Mercedes, and a metal 3D printing specialist at Silverstone: three Zimbabwean engineers in F1, what they do, and what it means for students at home.
From Castle Lager National Braai Day at Glamis to the Zimbabwe Jazz Festival, a charity mud run and two new plays, here is what's on in and around Harare from Friday 16 to Sunday 18 October 2026.
Rich countries are ageing fast and Africa is supplying most of the world's new workers, yet UK health and care visa applications are down 95 percent from their peak, settlement rules are under review and Zimbabwe sits on both sides of that equation.
Africa exports most of the crude it pumps and imports the petrol and diesel it runs on. A year of Middle East shocks, Dangote's export push and a proposed pipeline to Bulawayo show what refining at home could, and couldn't, do for fuel prices in places like Zimbabwe.
Harare chef and restaurateur Zandi Mubi-Chitima cooked at two official events at FAO headquarters in Rome, putting traditional Zimbabwean food in front of the world's top forestry forum.
Wicknell Chivayo died in a helicopter crash on 30 September 2026, so we add up the cars and cash he handed to Zimbabwean musicians, comedians and footballers, and ask what that money changed.
Elliot walked through Reality Shift at Westgate with a guide, from the Ames room to the Swirl Chamber, and came out an hour and a half later calling it worth your $15.
A six-month-old gallery in the Domboshava hills staged a national exhibition and competition called Tsika Dzedu, and selected works are on show until 3 October.
Our daily run of the people and projects that kept Zimbabwe's arts scene moving in September.
On the evidence of its first month, it's the clearest export plan we've seen from a local artist this year.
James Manyika oversees Google's research labs and co-chaired the UN's advisory body on AI, and the first thing he ever published was a paper on neural networks written as an undergraduate at the University of Zimbabwe in 1992.
World Space Week runs until 10 October, and the man who has coordinated it here since 2014 is one of the engineers behind ZimSat-1, a 10cm satellite built by Zimbabwean students in Japan and released from the International Space Station in 2022.
Nollywood produces around 2,500 films a year and built a global streaming presence from nothing. Zimbabwe's own film industry only got its first formal strategy in November 2024.
Salladhor Saan, the pirate lord who backed Stannis Baratheon, was played by an actor who did his entire schooling in Harare before building a career on London's biggest stages.
Years before she became Okoye in Black Panther, Danai Gurira wrote a play that became the first production on Broadway with an entirely Black, entirely female cast and creative team.
Bob Marley chartered his own plane, waived his fee, and flew 21 tonnes of equipment into a newborn Zimbabwe to play its independence celebrations in April 1980.
A Harare band built on mbira and electric guitars ended up opening for Madonna at Wembley Stadium in 1987, one of the biggest crossover moments Zimbabwean music has ever had.
Before the Songlines awards and the 40-country tours, Mokoomba was six childhood friends from Chinotimba township learning instruments together after school.
Hosted by our co-founder Elliot Twist alongside Aura Kawanzaruwa, My 2 Cents sits down with Zimbabwean musicians, authors, comedians and entertainment personalities for candid conversation on the culture, the industry and the moment.
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Zimbabwe's Sables play Namibia at the National Sports Stadium on Saturday 24 October, the first rugby at the renovated ground, with tickets from US$1 and live coverage on ZBC, YouTube, Sports AI and RugbyPass TV.
Africa's gaming population is forecast to pass 406 million this year and its tournaments now feed directly into world championships, yet the whole continent's esports economy is estimated at tens of millions of dollars and its champions still finish near the bottom abroad.
