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ZOL Restaurant Week: Amanzi Review

Despite being fully booked on this freezing winter night for ZOL Restaurant Week, Amanzi’s service was outstanding and the food well-prepared and beautifully presented. The only slight disappointment was that the restaurant week menu offered was not the one advertised on ZOL’s website. $25 got you a three-course menu; $20 for two.

Creating theSpace for Zimbabwean youth to thrive

A bold initiative, launched in Harare last year to support Zimbabwean youth with business opportunities and to create a civic engagement platform, is starting to bear fruit. This initiative, known as "theSpace", brings together individuals from different sectors of society in a quest to re-imagine Zimbabwe and co-create a globally conscious cohort of open-minded individuals dedicated to local and international socio-economic growth. After a successful run last year, which resulted in a more engaged community, this year is poised to be even better with buy-in from embassies, government and youth.

ZOL Restaurant Week: Emmanuels Review

As always, the service and ambience at Emmanuels was spectacular, where we enjoyed a three-course meal on a cold July night. Compared to other participating restaurants in this year’s ZOL Restaurant Week, the menu was certainly the most varied and impressive. When it comes to dining in style, Emmanuels has remained the go-to spot for gourmet cuisine in the Sunshine City.

The makings of a man: 31 things that life has taught me

On the eve of my 31st birthday I caught myself devouring a shawarma wrap with such unthinking and savage dexterity that I actually had to take a pause and reflect on life itself. And in the middle of that pause all the ambivalence I had been nursing about turning 31 dissipated. In its place was a renewed enthusiasm. Suddenly celebrating my last calendar birthday (Apparently it’s a thing.) didn’t seem so frivolous.