HARARE – National Arts Merit Awards (Nama)-winning visual artist Johnson Zuze has an unusual fascination with dogs. Zuze’s masterpiece The Dog and the Bone landed the 2015 Nama Outstanding Mixed Media gong ahead of a piece titled Xenophobia Pain by the Gweru-based treble Nama winner Forbes Mushipe. In 2013, Chitungwiza-based Zuze competed in the Nama…
HARARE – Zimbabwe Music Awards (Zima) chairperson Joseph Nyadzayo has conceded that this year’s edition of the gongs was a far cry from the glitz-and-glamour affair they had hoped for. The awards were generally attacked by artistes and music fans alike for lacking both the pomp and organisation associated with top-class events. While conceding that…
HARARE – Dendera music star Suluman Chimbetu says a DVD compilation of his latest and fifth album Gunship will be out by June this year. The 10-track album, released at the end of 2014, has tracks such as Nyuchi (featuring Soul Jah Love), Phone (featuring Somandla Ndebele), Musandisiye, Skero, Hondo, Chirongo, Tora Mari, Mr Bensen…
HARARE – Fungisai Zvakavapano-Mashavave has threatened to quit music in the wake of what she describes as “cyber bullying” that she has been subjected to since the Zimdancehall Awards. The controversial artiste has been in the line of fire for collaborating with Zimdancehall star Killer T on the award-winning song Vanondibatirana. Yesterday, Fungisai took to…
HARARE – Miss World Zimbabwe says it has moved the boot camp and finals to later dates in order to accommodate students. The boot camp was supposed to be held today while the finals were scheduled for April 16 at Borrowdale Brooke Golf Course. Miss World Zimbabwe Trust communications manager Tendai Chirau said the postponement…
HARARE – Jamaican reggae singer Christopher Martin will finally hold his debut performance in Zimbabwe at the Glamis Arena in Harare on April 29. Last year, on the Jamaican television show, Onstage, Martin said Zimbabwe would be part of his Africa Tour. “In the beginning of August (2015) I will be in Africa,” the singer…
HARARE – Highly-rated Zimbabwean singer and instrumentalist, Tanyaradzwa Tawengwa, came second out of 21 contestants from all over the world who took part in this year’s edition of the Alltech Vocal Scholarship Competition hosted by the University of Kentucky last week. For coming second in the vocal contest, the largest singing competition of its kind…
HARARE – Chido Mbizvo is confident that the National Arts Merit Awards (Nama) Outstanding Film Actress gong she won last month will inspire youngsters in her home town of Kwekwe to take up acting as a career. Mbizvo landed her maiden Nama award for her role in the Zimbabwean feature film titled Mwanasikana written and…
HARARE – Award-winning Zimbabwean writer Petina Gappah is part of a 12-strong longlist for the 2016 Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award. The winner, who will be announced on April 22, will receive £30 000 while five writers who will make the shortlist, to be unveiled on March 20, will each pocket £1,000. Gappah, who…
HARARE – In a country divided by the widening gap between those who have and those who don’t, it is not every day that a celebrity like music superstar Oliver ‘Tuku’ Mtukudzi enrols his son at a school of Chindunduma 1 High School’s calibre. In 2005, out of the blue, Tuku brought his now late…
