HARARE – Organisers of the supposedly annual Zimbabwe Music Awards (Zima) have revealed that there are no awards this year. Zima chairperson Joseph Nyadzayo once told the Daily News that they were all along operating on a shoestring budget, hence it was hard for the organisers to plan for the future but the newly-appointed publicist…
HARARE – The arts fraternity is mourning the death of Daily News Entertainment Writer Sharon Muguwu, 28, who passed away this week on Tuesday after a long battle with cancer. She was buried yesterday in her rural home in Chikomba. National Arts Council of Zimbabwe (Nacz) acting communications and marketing manager Cathrine Mthombeni said: “Nacz…
BULAWAYO – South Africa-based music promoter Phakama Nkomo has scored a first in bringing musicians from different regions to recording music as part of the initiative to promote unity and togetherness. The Underground Entertainment music promoter better known as PKay in music circles told the Daily News yesterday that his first project was this month…
BULAWAYO – Gilmore Tee Moyo the host and producer of Thatha Wena, a new PanAfrican conversational television show is set to travel to the US as one of the 60 young Zimbabweans that were selected to be part of the Mandela Washington Fellowship — Young African Leaders Initiative (Yali). Gilmore, who is known for his…
HARARE – Smoko musician Isaac Tazvida, who set up a base in Mozambique a decade ago before returning home last year, will return to Zimbabwe’s Eastern neighbour for two shows later this month. Tazvida, brother to late music star System, who died in 1999, has been invited to perform at that country’s independence gala scheduled…
HARARE – Music superstar Oliver “Tuku” Mtukudzi has collaborated with Freshlyground — the South African Afro-fusion band that was deported by the Zimbabwean government four years ago. The South African group, which was scheduled to officially close the 2014 edition of the Harare International Festival of the Arts (Hifa), was turned away at the airport…
HARARE – Artists, arts practitioners and civil society are suspicious that the newly-appointed Censorship Board announced by Home Affairs minister Ignatius Chombo recently is not about the contested moral righteousness but policing citizens’ artistic freedoms and freedom of expression, generation and access to information online and offline. Chombo appointed the Censorship Board that will be…
HARARE – Zimdancehall stars Soul Jah Love, Freeman and Seh Calaz are among several artistes who will perform at a Zanu PF youth league rally set for Mutare this Friday that will be addressed by President Robert Mugabe. Though efforts to establish whether the artistes would be paid were unsuccessful yesterday, a respected arts personality…
HARARE – Two years ago, a fledgling Zimbabwean musician, Simbarashe Charandurah, performed South African music legend Yvonne Chaka Chaka’s hit Kana Uchema at a memorial service for a popular community leader called Tembeka Nkamba-Van Wyk held in Pretoria. Little did the Bulawayo-born Charandurah, who uses the stage name Simba Ci, know that Chaka Chaka was…
HARARE – Miss Tourism Zimbabwe (MTZ) 2017 will take place on December 9 in Harare. MTZ patron Barbara Mzembi told journalists at a press conference held at a Harare hotel on Saturday that 15 girls will be in the running to replace reigning queen Ashley Morgan. [GoogleAd] “Starting next month applications will be accessible on…
