HARARE – Female musicians Cindy Munyavi and Clare Nyakujara are back with Kumabhebhi, an initiative that was created as a platform to empower female artistes through showcasing their talents and beauty. They last held a show under the Kumabhebhi banner in August 2014. Their first show will be at New Ambassador Hotel on Thursday from…
HARARE – Lively Miss Deaf Zimbabwe Kuda Mapeture won the first princess and Miss Deaf Photogenic Africa titles at the Miss Deaf Africa 2016 pageant held in Cape Town, South Africa on Saturday. Mapeture was beaten to the top prize by Miss Deaf South Africa Cirsty Greeff who also took home the Miss Deaf Personality…
HARARE – Manicaland’s Redwing Beni Arinoti scooped their third national Chibuku Neshamwari Traditional Dance Festival title after outshining nine other provincial representatives at White City Stadium in Bulawayo on Saturday. The 18-member Penhalonga-based dance group, which won the same competition in 1996 and 2007, took the first prize of $7 000 with Bulawayo’s Sekunjalo MaAfrica…
HARARE – Mandragora Circus from Argentina will hold three shows in Bulawayo this month at the invitation of Nhimbe Trust. The circus will first perform at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe in Bulawayo on August 10 before taking their act to the Zimbabwe Academy of Music in Bulawayo on August 12 and 13. Mandragora Circus’…
HARARE – Ballet Bouquet, which was directed by Cape Town City Ballet artistic director Robin van Wyk with help from local dance teacher Carol Henchie, left the audience mesmerised over the weekend at Reps Theatre. The show was a collaboration between Dance Trust of Zimbabwe (DTZ) and the Cape Town City Ballet (CTCB) which featured…
HARARE – United Kingdom-based designer Yvonne Gambe Ndava recently raised Zimbabwe’s flag high when she won the award for the Best Fashion Designer in the North West of England. Since Ndava is fairly unknown in her land of birth, the Daily News on Sunday’s Dakarai Mashava (DM) spoke to Yvonne Gambe Ndava (YGN). Below are…
HARARE – Afro-fusion artiste Jean Masters has challenged female artistes to match the hype and style associated with album launches by established male music stars. The songstress believes female artistes have a lot to learn from Jah Prayzah’s marketing blitz of the his forthcoming album titled Mudhara Vachauya which is set to be launched at…
HARARE – Miss Zimbabwe Trust chairperson Marry Chiwenga says the national pageant’s tainted reputation is scaring away beautiful girls. Under Chiwenga’s watch, Miss Zimbabwe 2014 Thabiso Phiri and Miss Zimbabwe 2015 Emily Kachote were dethroned over nude pictures allegations. The wife of Zimbabwe Defence Forces commander General Chiwenga told the Daily News that despite their…
HARARE – Music stars Alexio Kawara, Pah Chihera, Thembalami and Zimpraise will perform at the Diana Mugadza Kidney Transplant Fundraising Concert to be hosted by Dzivaresekwa Methodist Church in Zimbabwe tomorrow. The fundraising concert, which will run between 9am and 6pm,is part of efforts to raise over $30 000 for Mugadza to undergo a kidney…
HARARE – The annual Chibuku Neshamwari Traditional Dance Festival, which features 10 provincial champions, will explode at Bulawayo’s White City Stadium tomorrow. This year’s edition has been spiced up by the increase of the first prize from $4 000 to $7 000, the second prize from $3 000 to $5 000 while the third prize…
