HARARE – When record-breaking Zimbabwean fashion designer Adel Kaseke uploaded a picture of herself wearing a dress she had just made on Instagram last October, she didn’t realise she had conjured up an ascent into cash-rich Hollywood. No sooner had the United Kingdom based Kaseke posted the picture than Hollywood’s royalty began contacting her. The…
HARARE – Music superstar Oliver Mtukudzi, Dendera star Suluman Chimbetu, Zimdancehall king Winky D and red-hot sungura maestro Alick Macheso will grace the launch of upcoming musician Sam Dondo’s nine-track debut album titled Dyara Minamato at Alexandra Sports Club tonight. Suluman, Jah Prayzah, producer-cum-keyboardist Munyaradzi Viali and highly-rated South Africa-based sound engineer/producer Keith Farquharson all…
HARARE – Protest chimurenga artiste Raymond Majongwe has released a controversial nine track album called Zimbabwe “Ndeyedu Tese.” Majongwe, who will share the stage with chimurenga music legend Thomas Mapfumo and solo guitarist Steve ‘Dhongi’ Makoni on April 16 in Leicester, United Kingdom, said his latest album emphasises the fact that Zimbabwe should never be…
HARARE – Sungura artiste Simon Mutambi, who landed position two on the 2015 Coca-Cola Radio Zimbabwe Top 50 behind Blessing Shumba, has promised “another blockbuster sungura album.” Mutambi told the Daily News that his sixth album titled Zviri Pasi Pedenga was ready for release and would be launched at the City Sports Bar in Harare…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Writers Association (ZWA) has lauded the contribution made by the late journalist and author Alexander Kanengoni to Zimbabwe’s literature. Kanengoni, 65, collapsed and died at Warren Park home in Harare due to a heart complication on Tuesday. [GoogleAd] In a statement signed by its secretary general Memory Chirere, ZWA praised the…
BULAWAYO – Award-winning designer Saneliso Mpofu is the only Zimbabwean who has been invited to showcase her creations at the two-day Tshwane Fashion Festival which begins in Pretoria tomorrow. Mpofu, whose label is called Sanah Designs, will participate at the event that seeks to promote talented young African designers. [GoogleAd] The young designer told the…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s trigger-happy Board of Censors insists that the 2004 ban imposed on the political satire “Super Patriots and Morons” is still in force. The play, which revolves around an ageing African dictator who does not want to give up power, was shown for two days last week to mark the re-launch of Theatre…
HARARE – The Zimbabwean Championships of Performing Arts (ZICOPA), which will identify young local artists to represent the country at the upcoming World Championships of Performing of Art (WCOPA) to be held in Hollywood in July, was launched in Harare yesterday. WCOPA, which will take place in Long Beach California in the United States of…
HARARE – The organisation that produced Democrats-an award-winning documentary that captured proceedings of Zimbabwe’s constitution-making process from 2010 to 2013-has appealed against the decision by the Board of Censors to ban the film from being shown publicly in the country. The Board of Censors banned the documentary by Upfront Films three weeks ago on the…
HARARE – As Ebenezer singer Toggy Chivaviro continues to promote and assist local gospel artistes in new markets, over the weekend he held joint concerts with award-winning Mutare-based artiste Blessing Shumba in South Africa. The concerts were held in Pretoria and Germiston on April 9 and 10 respectively and meant to popularise the two artistes’…
