© ENZO ISHALL felt sabotaged when some people threw missiles on stage during his performance at the Castle Tankard held at Borrowdale Race Course on Saturday. [GoogleAd] The chanter alleged there were some hired mercenaries by rival musicians as he left the stage unceremoniously, scaling over the security fence and straight to his vehicle before…
© DRINKERS got a relief on Saturday at the Borrowdale Race Course, courtesy of Castle Tankard which saw beer being sold at reduced prices. People got to purchase a litre of draught beer at $4 which is way cheaper than the prevailing prices of beer and the results of the drinking were visible for many…
© MUSICIANS’ revenue collecting agency, the Zimbabwe Music Rights Association (Zimura), has sensationally-claimed it received threats from former president Robert Mugabe’s government when they wanted to effect a High Court order to attach State broadcaster ZBC property. [GoogleAd] This emerged last week, when Zimura — represented by board members Charles Charamba, First Farai, Mechanic Manyeruke…
© POPULAR rapper Ti Gonzi is back in the public arena after a break following a near-fatal attack by thieves at night while coming from a recording session. The Hipu Hopu Yekughetto frontman made an appearance at the Enzo Ishall birthday bash at City Sports Centre on Saturday. [GoogleAd] Born Tinashe Gonzara, the award-winning rapper…
© RISING urban grooves and Afro-pop artiste Toxx Lodriq, real name Lordrique Muvengwa, pictured, has released a third album in which he talks about love. The singer has made his thoughts known in a new album titled Handitete. The eight-track album is his third after two other projects KaLove, and Mhanzi Yerudo. [GoogleAd] He has done…
© One hour or two hours on stage is not enough for sungura music giant Alick Macheso and Saturday’s Castle Tankard was testimony. [GoogleAd] The veteran entertainer had to fit his act in the prescribed two hours with reports that Borrowdale residents complain about noise and the show had to end at 10pm. Macheso usually…
© YOUTHFUL singer Tocky Vibes has lived up to his promise and released Volume One of his album The Villagers Money. This volume carries reggae songs and the second volume will be strictly dancehall which he said will be out by the end of this month. [GoogleAd] So far he has dropped a number of…
© GREETINGS, and welcome to my weekly theatre column. To get started, what is the theatre? And why is it important? Why should we care, when there is film, and the internet, and all other manners of ways of being entertained? Why should we support the theatre? [GoogleAd] First of all because theatre is a…
© From this week, we will bring you a series of articles on some of Zimbabwe’s past black listed songs from the 70s up until the 2000s as different government systems tried in vain to control artistic voices. [GoogleAd] AS the liberation war intensified in Zimbabwe in the 1970s, rural communities witnessed such brutality and…
© GEMMA Griffiths is a Zimbabwean musician based in Cape Town, South Africa who speaks and sings in fluent Shona, a subject she did while at school in Zimbabwe. [GoogleAd] She hogged the showbiz limelight last year thanks to her collaboration with Zimdancehall stalwart Winky D on the song Mugarden. Since then, Gemma is one…
