HARARE – Two-time Zimbabwe Fashion Week (ZFW) Blogger of the Year Ameera Murad Ameer says the country’s budding fashion industry is ready for a big take-off despite the challenges it faces. Ameer, whose blog, Kicking it with Mimi won two consecutive awards from 2014, attributes the renewed energy on the Zimbabwean fashion scene to a…
HARARE – For Austria-based artiste Futurelove Sibanda, art is a mere expression of oneself regardless of whatever form it takes. The former member of Inkululeko Yabatsha School of Arts (Iyasa) recently pulled a shocker when he displayed on social media a collage of his “nude” pictures captured in a bush and on a beach. Surprisingly,…
HARARE – Zimdancehall sensation Dobba Don says his hit Mudendere and the Most Promising Artist gong he landed at the recent Zimdancehall Awards have catapulted him into the limelight. The 21-year-old artiste, who was born Dumalisile Mehlomakhulu, is delighted to be getting some recognition at long last. “When I was nominated for the Zimdancehall Awards,…
HARARE – Veteran South African music star PJ Powers will headline a gig set for Old Georgians Sports Club in Harare on May 7. The concert seeks to raise funds to support a specialised anti-poaching dog unit. The 52-year-old musician, who is probably best known in Zimbabwe for the hits Jabulani and There is an…
HARARE – Hundreds of ecstatic fans attended the launch of sungura kingpin Alick Macheso’s 10th album Tsoka Dzerwendo (Ayayaa) at the Harare International Conference Centre (HICC) on Thursday night. The fact that the sungura star last released an album four years ago, was probably the key reason why Macheso and partners — Jive Zimbabwe, Nash…
HARARE – The Harare International Festival of the Arts (Hifa) has lined up a series of events that will take place in the run-up to their 2017 edition. Hifa announced in October last year that they had decided not to hold their six-day event this year to allow them “to step back, reinvent and come…
HARARE – Zimdancehall star Killer T and mbira songstress Hope Masike are some of the artistes scheduled to perform at the launch of sungura star Alick Macheso’s 10th album Tsoka Dzerwendo at the Harare International Conference Centre (HICC) tonight. Interestingly, no sungura artiste has been invited to perform at the launch of the album that…
HARARE – Classical music singer Molly Dzangare notched up another success for her burgeoning musical career when she was named winner of the 10th annual edition of Harare’s Got Talent on Saturday night. The Chitungwiza-based singer charmed the audience and judges with her superb soprano voice and took the honours from a field of other…
HARARE – Controversial musician Hosiah Chipanga says he will not give up until President Robert Mugabe agrees to discuss with him Zimbabwe’s worsening economic and political situation. Chipanga, who performed at the City Sports Bar Jam Session on Monday night, told the Daily News that he has “spiritual solutions” that will bring back normalcy to…
BULAWAYO – Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe honorary curator Donald George Broadley, 84, who was regarded as the world’s third most prolific writer on reptiles and amphibians, passed away last week at his home in Matshemuhlope suburb in Bulawayo. Broadley — regarded as Africa’s best herpetologist — collected over 52 000 species of reptiles and…
