BULAWAYO model, Jemima Mandemwa landed the first runner-up position at the Miss Planet International 2023 held recently at the Koh Pich Theatre, Phnom Penh in Cambodia. The international pageant is an annual beauty pageant for single women held as part of efforts to promote the fulfilment of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.Maria Luisa Varela…
MUSICIANS-CUM-AUTHORS Dudu Manhenga and Hope Masike will team up with celebrated poet Batsirai Chigama to stage a joint performance on the subject of love at Alliance Francaise in Harare on February 9. The event, dubbed ‘126 Ways to Love,’ will bring on one stage three award-winning artists who have made a name for themselves in…
Anesu Mirisawu and Ashley Moyo DENDERA music maestro Suluman “Sulu” Chimbetu and his Orchestra Dendera Kings are set to rock Eastpoint Bar and Restaurant in Harare tomorrow. Chimbetu is taking the opportunity to promote his music with special focus on his latest track Mafuta, a collaboration with UK-based artistes Lamont Chitepo and Tytan. The track…
Ashley Moyo HIP-HOP musician Holy Ten has lined-up six concerts in South Africa in March which are meant to promote Book of Malachi, his latest studio album launched at Woods Pub and Grill in the capital last month. He will kickstart the tour with a Grahamstown concert on March 3 before moving to East London…
DECORATED Chimurenga musician Thomas Mapfumo has for now abandoned his new album Ndikutambire to start a different project that speaks to the current political and economic environment in Zimbabwe. The project Ndikutambire was supposed to be released on January 20. “The situation in Zimbabwe has reached another level hence we need to fight with one voice. “This has necessitated…
Anesu Mirisawu mirisawua@dailynews.co.zw REIGNING Miss Albinism Zimbabwe queen Angela Dube and Ntandoyenkosi Mnkandla are set to represent the country at the inaugural Mister and Miss Albinism Southern Africa pageant slated for October in Harare. The duo will compete with Malawi’s Hilda Macheso and Richard Mithi; Susan Phiri and Emmanuel Mwale from Zambia; Andreia Sicato and Arthur Mukonda…
Ashley Moyo moyoa@dailynews.co.zw THE Zimbabwe Music Rights Association (Zimura) — a collective management organisation with a duty to manage composers’ music rights in the country, the region and internationally — is set to resume copyright awareness workshops across the country. This comes as the organisation also held a number of workshops in different parts of…
Ashley Moyo moyoa@dailynews.co.zw TRANSACTIONS, a documentary by renowned filmmaker and writer Rumbi Katedza, has been nominated in the Media and Culture category at the Grimme Prize awards. The winners of the 59th Grimme Prize, one of the most important German television awards, will be announced on March 21. “It’s truly an honour to be nominated…
SYMPATHY SIBANDAOwn Correspondent EVER since he was a young boy, music was a part of his routine. Sitting around the fire in…
TWO Zimbabweans are among the 60 students selected for the MultiChoice Talent Factory programme for 2023, both of them hoping to help boost the ranks of trained professionals in Africa’s growing world of filmmaking. Liz Dziva, publicity and public relations manager of MultiChoice Zimbabwe, said Marvellous Matswimbo and Simbarashe Nyahwa of Harare had joined 58…
