HARARE – Timmy naBhonzo, a ZBC-TV comedy featuring veteran actor Lawrence “Mudhara Bhonzo” Simbarashe and Timothy Tapfumanei which hogged the limelight in the 90s, is making a comeback. The two actors, mostly remembered for their silly and hilarious pranks, will launch a DVD titled The Return of Timmy naBhonzo” on Friday at Theatre in the…
HARARE – Upcoming musician Innocent “Bontoman” Chinyani has joined artistes like Andy Muridzo and Commander Lee who imitate Jah Prayzah. Bontoman, who appears to have mastered the art of imitating the Watora Mari hit-maker, has just released his fourth album titled MaVendor which can easily be mistaken for a Jah Prayzah production. The Uzumba-born rookie…
HARARE – Muvhango actress Rami Chuene, 41, who plays the role of the “super bad and manipulative Khomotjo” in the soapie, will be a guest speaker at the monthly Mambokadzi African Media and Entertainment Network meeting set for Harare this Saturday. Chuene and songstress Ammara Brown will make speeches at the event dubbed “Mambokadzi Empowerment…
HARARE – Sungura kingpin Alick Macheso’s ex-wife Tafadzwa Mapako yesterday made stunning revelations that she was three months pregnant as she appeared in court over an assault charge. The news of Mapako’s pregnancy comes barely two years after the 33-year-old mother ended a four-year marriage to Macheso. The couple sired two children together. Mapako appeared…
BULAWAYO – Theatre stable, Naughty By Nature, has lined up a one-man play titled ‘The Diary of Madness’. The play, written by poet-cum-author Philani Amadeus Nyoni, will premiere at Bulawayo Theatre on November 5 — a date which coincides with the play’s director by Thabani Moyo’s birthday. Interestingly, Nyoni, who has been likened to the…
HARARE – Zambezi News, Zimbabwe’s leading satirical comedy show, which features comical news presenters who delve into everyday issues ranging from politics to sport, landed the Best Comedian Award at the African Entertainment Awards (AEA) held in New Jersey, USA last week. The award-winning comedy group, made up of Comrade Fatso, Outspoken and Michael Kudakwashe,…
HARARE – Jah Prayzah failed to make the highly-anticipated appearance at his dancer-cum-backing vocalist Pamela “Gonyeti” Zulu’s album launch hosted by Dandaro Inn on Thursday night. In the run-up to the launch of the album titled One Day, Gonyeti’s camp had claimed that Jah Prayzah would grace the event despite the fact his former backing…
HARARE – More than a dozen aircraft are expected to take part in the 2016 Vintage Air Rally, which starts on the Mediterranean island of Crete on November 12 and will include two Zimbabwean stops on its route down through Africa to Cape Town, where it will arrive on December 17. The event is being…
HARARE – Dendera music star Suluman Chimbetu and Zora star Leonard Zhakata will share the stage at a family show to be held at Extra Mile in Harare on Sunday. Before the Sunday Family show, Zhakata would have performed at Gwaya Gwaya Night Club in Chinhoyi after which he will share the stage with Franco…
HARARE – University of Zimbabwe academic, who is Emeritus professor in the department of African Languages and Literature, George Kahari, yesterday launched two books — The Standard Shona-English Dictionary of Names and The Odyssey of Shona Imaginative Narratives — at the Culture Fund of Zimbabwe Trust offices in Harare. Several top government officials, diplomats, fellow…
