HARARE – Members of the Chitukuto Zambia group who won this year’s edition of Chibuku Neshamwari Traditional Dance Festival Harare provincial competitions, said determination and sheer hard-work was the secret behind their success. The group, who was the first runner-up at last year’s event held at Chitubu Bar in Glen Norah suburb, managed to clinch…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Music Rights Association (Zimura) said they owe international as well as regional artistes royalties. William Nanaire, the society’s financial officer, said they collect cash for all artistes but have their priorities set on local artistes. “We owe international artistes and we cannot pay them,” Nanaire said. “Instead, we prioritise the payment…
MAURITIUS – DStv, the main digital satellite television provider in sub-Saharan Africa, says it will not introduce pay per view television any time soon despite persistent calls for the service in Zimbabwe and elsewhere on the continent. Due to constant electricity power cuts, many DStv customers have been pushing for the continental satellite television service…
HARARE – Popular Botswana musical group, Culture Spears, has invited Jah Prayzah to perform in their country at the launch of their new album, Kulanche, on August 1. The multiple National Arts Merit Awards (Nama) winner’s forthcoming tour of Botswana follows the featuring of Culture Spears’s Charma Gal on Jah Prayzah’s latest album Kumbumura Mhute….
HARARE – Rising chanter Edeline “Juwela” Mapuranga believes she now has what it takes to share the limelight with Sandra “Lady Squanda” Gazi at the apex of Zimbabwe’s female dancehall community. The 22-year-old third-year media student at the Midlands State University has been emboldened by the good run her track Love Haimanikidzwe is currently enjoying…
HARARE – American singer John Legend will perform at the Harare International Conference Centre (HICC) on November 19 in a concert that has been put together by Davies Events. Both the Love in the Future singer and the organisers of the concert have confirmed the high profile gig expected to attract thousands of fans. Legend,…
HARARE – Writers will meet at the Zimbabwe Film and Television School of Southern Africa (Ziftessa) in Harare this morning to elect a new Zimbabwe Writers Association (Zwa) board. Zwa, which was formed three years ago, is currently headed by a committee that includes veteran poet and University of Zimbabwe lecturer Musaemura Zimunya who chairs…
HARARE – Sungura musician Peter “Young Igwe” Moyo and rising gospel artiste Mathias Mhere have the chance to land their maiden gongs at the inaugural Midlands Music Awards to be held at the Midlands Hotel in Gweru tonight. Moyo, who has one album under his name, has been nominated in the Best Sungura Artiste category…
HARARE – Miss Diversity, an annual beauty pageant founded by Bulawayo-born Musa James and Nollywood actress Samantha Ncube two years ago in the United Kingdom, will hold its second edition in Birmingham on July 5. The pageant, which aims to bring together beautiful women from different nationalities and cultural backgrounds, was won by South African…
MAURITIUS – Multichoice Africa says it is working on bringing back the digital terrestrial television service GOtv which was switched off in January this year. The television service, launched amid fanfare in February last year by partners who include Multichoice Africa and Transmedia, was switched off over shareholder differences. Multichoice Africa chief executive officer Nico…
