HARARE – Scores of fashion designers of Zimbabwean heritage in the United Kingdom are expected to throng the second edition of the Zimbabwe Fashion Showcase (ZFS) that will take place in Birmingham from July 28-30 this year. The ZFS founder Chiedza Dawn Ziyambe has promised a much better event than the inaugural one that was…
HARARE – Mabhanditi singer Seh Calaz held two well-attended concerts over the weekend that attracted hordes of youthful revellers. The controversial Zimdancehall chanter, who of late has been on the receiving end of several diss tracks from Ricky Fire, first performed at Dallas Night Club in Glen View before taking his Mabhanditi clan to Club…
HARARE – Sungura music star Alick Macheso will release onto the market 250 000 copies of his 10th album Tsoka Dzerwendo on Monday. The long-awaited album — Macheso’s first since 2012 — will be sold for just a dollar at Red Cross and Nash Paints offices countrywide. Macheso told journalists at a press conference in…
HARARE – Chido Mbizvo is confident that the National Arts Merit Awards (Nama) Outstanding Film Actress gong she won last month will inspire youngsters in her home town of Kwekwe to take up acting as a career. Mbizvo landed her maiden Nama award for her role in the Zimbabwean feature film titled Mwanasikana written and…
HARARE – Highly-rated Zimbabwean singer and instrumentalist, Tanyaradzwa Tawengwa, came second out of 21 contestants from all over the world who took part in this year’s edition of the Alltech Vocal Scholarship Competition hosted by the University of Kentucky last week. For coming second in the vocal contest, the largest singing competition of its kind…
HARARE – Embattled Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s allies are ramping up their assault on President Robert Mugabe’s authority, savaging the Zanu PF politburo’s decisions of the past few months, as well as the nonagenarian’s key lieutenants such as national political commissar Saviour Kasukuwere. Speaking at a meeting of war veterans aligned to Mnangagwa in Bulawayo…
HARARE – The secretary-general of a faction of war veterans loyal to embattled Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa, Victor Matemadanda, was involved in an ugly fight in Gokwe last week, as the deadly factional and succession wars ravaging Zanu PF continue to escalate. While Matemadanda claimed earlier yesterday that he had been beaten by thugs that…
HARARE – The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) on Friday launched a five-year financial programme aimed at improving people’s acumen of monetary issues. Central bank governor John Mangudya said the programme, known as the National Financial Inclusion Strategy (2016-2020), seeks to increase the overall level of access to affordable and appropriate formal financial services within…
HARARE – Veteran sungura musician Tedius Matsito, who has hardly been active on stage since he was involved in an accident three years ago, made a cameo appearance at Alick Macheso’s Warren Park concert in Harare over the weekend. The Nyaradzo singer told the Daily News that appearing on the sungura artiste’s set had invigorated…
HARARE – A low key welcome is awaiting the Zimbabwe cricket team when they arrive from India after a disappointing ICC WT20 qualifying campaign that saw them lose to Associate side Afghanistan. However, they will not return empty-handed as their consistent ability to choke has found them new fans in Asia and has endeared them…
