HARARE – Zimbabwean-born Canada-based Nyasha Makambira won the Best Producer Award at the 2nd Annual African Entertainment Awards held in Toronto, Canada over the weekend. Makambira of NyashaMusic is currently operating a recording studio in the Greater Toronto Area. As a producer he has worked with a variety of artistes including Amaal Nuux of…
HARARE – Top producer Clive ‘‘Mono’’ Mukundu, 42, has dropped his seventh album titled Tunziyo for Jean (Songs for Jean), dedicated to his wife of 18 years. Mukundu is a producer as well as a musician and his other albums are Anosimudza Marombe, Jesu Aneni, Poor and Famous, Super Ngezha, Zivai Zvekuchema and 40. His…
HARARE – Gogo Dismini casts a lonely figure at her house along Chatima Road in Mbare. At about 9 o’clock in the morning she is already sunbathing with her back facing the sun. The ever-noticeable empty gaze in her ageing bluish eyes is reminiscent of what struck most European visitors in colonial Algeria. Most…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF and some secret service agents have been fingered by South African National Congress (ANC) in a sinister plot to derail that country’s economy by fanning mines unrest. The Daily News reported on Monday that the former ruling party is on a $100 million mission to weaken perceived opponents…
BULAWAYO – Southern Region Division One League action enters Week 24 this weekend with log leaders Bantu Rovers facing a tricky encounter against city rivals New West on Saturday at Luveve Stadium. New West is currently enjoying a good run of form and occupies fourth position on the log with 42 points from 23 games….
HARARE – Munyaradzi Kereke, the former advisor to Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor Gideon Gono, has made claims that his wife and child have vanished and he says he suspects foul play. This is revealed in a letter Kereke wrote to Speaker of Parliament, Lovemore Moyo after the speaker had turned down his request to…
HARARE – Black Mambas have shifted attention to their fight for Premiership survival after crashing out of the Mbada Diamonds Cup at the weekend courtesy of a 2-1 defeat to Buffaloes in Mutare. The police outfit currently sit in 12th position on the log standings with 23 points, two places above the relegation zone. Mambas’…
HARARE – Motor Action striker Norman Maroto’s blood will always be blue, but this will not deter him from derailing Dynamos’ title challenge when the sides clash in a crucial Castle Premiership tie on Sunday. Maroto, who burst onto the Premiership scene in 2001 as part of Moses Chunga’s fabled Kidznet project, is focussed on…
HARARE – Sports minister David Coltart expressed dismay at the “poor umpiring” by Englishman Richard Kettleborough, which led to the dismissal of Zimbabwe captain Brendan Taylor during the 82-run defeat to Sri Lanka in the ICC World Twenty20 opener on Tuesday. So outraged was Coltart, a staunch cricket fan, that he implied Zimbabwe was treated…
HARARE – Multiple award-winning international gospel worship queen and Believers LoveWorld (BLW) president Pastor Chris Oyakhilome’s lead praise and worship singer, Osinachi Kalu, will next Friday lead a team of African gospel musicians in an “All Night Show”. Current top Nigerian gospel-rock artistes Frank Edwards and Joe Praize and many others will stage the “All…
