3 TOP STORIES: 31 May – 6 June 2015

Every Sunday we will chat a bit about the top three stories of the week gone past.

Our three this week were pretty easy to choose to be honest.

Zimbabwe authorities v Vendors

Zimbabwe’s government decided it was a good idea to upset a huge section of those people ZIMSTAT and ILO call employed and the international community deems unemployed by threatening to put them out of employment. That is kicking the vendors out of town (read more here).

The situation escalated and it looked like a war was about to happen before they backed off and extended the deadline. (click here for that story)

Book Cafe Closes

On 1 June 2015, the iconic Book Cafe shut its doors and looks to be looking for a new home (read here).

Proprietor Tom Brickhill explianed the reason behind the closure which you can read by clicking here.

Then would you believe it? The National Arts Council put out statement saying it would engage Book Cafe to find out what was going on so as to fix it. We were like… hmmm.. Read their statement here

Sepp Blatter quits

Fifa president Sepp Blatter quit his job five days after re-election. (read more here). There will now be a congress next year to decide who is next. We’re trying to care here and we really should but well, we need to handle other business too.

Other bits and pieces

Zimbabwean afro-jazz singer Edith WeUtonga was robbed in SA (read here)

A Zimbabwean vendor was shot dead in Cape Town (read here)

Roki and EXQ released a hot new video (watch it here)

And a story we care about. Young Takudzwa Padzara needs a bone marrow transplant. To find out more about how you can help him, click here.

We obviously covered more stories than that. For more, click here.