HARARE – Dynamos forward Takesure Chinyama has written to the club demanding release from his contract which is coming to an end in June. The 33-year-old former Warriors striker seems to have gotten off on the wrong foot with new coach Paulo Jorge Silva. Chinyama’s relationship with the Portuguese mentor has not been rosy, resulting…
MUTARE – Mutare City Rovers are pleading with Zifa to allow their coach Kennedy “Bokande” Kachara, who does not hold the requisite coaching badges, to coach in their maiden Castle Lager Premiership season. Starting from this season, Zifa has put in place a regulation that only coaches with Caf A or Caf B coaching licences…
HARARE – Mabvuku-based judokas George Tsvande and Charlene Nyamutsita were the big winners at the inaugural Japanese Ambassador Judo Cup held at Hartman House in Harare at the weekend. Tsvande was crowned the overall Ambassadors’ Cup champion while Nyamutsita won the best Ippon award (boxing equivalent of a knockout). “It’s a great feeling and honour…
HARARE – Jamaican reggae singer Christopher Martin will finally hold his debut performance in Zimbabwe at the Glamis Arena in Harare on April 29. Last year, on the Jamaican television show, Onstage, Martin said Zimbabwe would be part of his Africa Tour. “In the beginning of August (2015) I will be in Africa,” the singer…
HARARE – Miss World Zimbabwe says it has moved the boot camp and finals to later dates in order to accommodate students. The boot camp was supposed to be held today while the finals were scheduled for April 16 at Borrowdale Brooke Golf Course. Miss World Zimbabwe Trust communications manager Tendai Chirau said the postponement…
HARARE – Fungisai Zvakavapano-Mashavave has threatened to quit music in the wake of what she describes as “cyber bullying” that she has been subjected to since the Zimdancehall Awards. The controversial artiste has been in the line of fire for collaborating with Zimdancehall star Killer T on the award-winning song Vanondibatirana. Yesterday, Fungisai took to…
HARARE – Dendera music star Suluman Chimbetu says a DVD compilation of his latest and fifth album Gunship will be out by June this year. The 10-track album, released at the end of 2014, has tracks such as Nyuchi (featuring Soul Jah Love), Phone (featuring Somandla Ndebele), Musandisiye, Skero, Hondo, Chirongo, Tora Mari, Mr Bensen…
HARARE – Zimbabwe Music Awards (Zima) chairperson Joseph Nyadzayo has conceded that this year’s edition of the gongs was a far cry from the glitz-and-glamour affair they had hoped for. The awards were generally attacked by artistes and music fans alike for lacking both the pomp and organisation associated with top-class events. While conceding that…
HARARE – National Arts Merit Awards (Nama)-winning visual artist Johnson Zuze has an unusual fascination with dogs. Zuze’s masterpiece The Dog and the Bone landed the 2015 Nama Outstanding Mixed Media gong ahead of a piece titled Xenophobia Pain by the Gweru-based treble Nama winner Forbes Mushipe. In 2013, Chitungwiza-based Zuze competed in the Nama…
BULAWAYO – Hollywood popularised the phenomenon of older women dating and marrying younger men to the point of making it a fashion statement. The most prominent case being in 2003 when Demi Moore ,41, and Ashton Kutcher ,25, began dating. They were followed by the likes of Halle Berry and Gabriel Aubry, Gabrielle Union and…
