HARARE – Dendera music star Suluman Chimbetu and Zora star Leonard Zhakata will share the stage at a family show to be held at Extra Mile in Harare on Sunday. Before the Sunday Family show, Zhakata would have performed at Gwaya Gwaya Night Club in Chinhoyi after which he will share the stage with Franco…
HARARE – University of Zimbabwe academic, who is Emeritus professor in the department of African Languages and Literature, George Kahari, yesterday launched two books — The Standard Shona-English Dictionary of Names and The Odyssey of Shona Imaginative Narratives — at the Culture Fund of Zimbabwe Trust offices in Harare. Several top government officials, diplomats, fellow…
TONIGHT’s State of the Nation play titled Handeitione at Harare’s Theatre in the Park turns the spotlight on what has been termed Zimbabwe’s biggest ‘‘national security threat’’ — corruption. The showcase comes at a time the military has also weighed in on the rampant corruption by top government officials who have been implicated and nothing…
HARARE – Guardian First Book Award winner Petina Gappah has launched a collection of short stories which she titled Rotten Row after the Harare road on which the Magistrate’s Courts are located. Gappah, who was longlisted for this year’s Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award and for the 2016 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction, confirmed…
SEVERAL leading Zimbabwean gospel and secular artistes alike have paid tribute to female singer Joyce Simeti who died in Harare on Tuesday at Arcadia Medical Centre. According to the late musician’s husband, Stanley Simeti, the popular musician passed away aged 42, three years after being diagnosed with an auto immune disorder. Leading the overflow of…
HARARE – This week’s City Sports Bar Monday Jam Session resembled a mini-female musicians’ festival as several songbirds shared the stage in an event dubbed “Divas Jam Session”. With more than 20 sisters joining the party on the night, the fans who packed the venue were indeed expecting something spectacular. [Adz] “We are here to…
HARARE – Tendai Chimombe, the eldest daughter of the late music legend James Chimombe, will headline a commemorative gig in honour of her departed father to be hosted by Jazz 24/7 on November 3. Artistes who will perform in honour of Chimombe who died on October 23, 1990 aged 39 include Tendai Dembo, Jairos Chabvonga,…
HARARE – Zim hip-hop star Stunner, who was recently fined $150 and sentenced to 210 hours of community service for driving without a driver’s licence and ramming into four parked vehicles, appears to be taking the punishment with good grace. The Ndaita Mbiri singer has been posting videos on social media which show him dressed…
HARARE – Highly-energetic singer and actress Kessia Masona who plays the lead role in television drama Muchaneta gave a charged and impressive performance together with a number of other female singers at this week’s edition of City Sports Bar’s Jam Session. The event saw female artistes in form of Edith WeUtonga, James Chimombe’s daughter Tendai,…
HARARE – Zimbabwean gospel music stars Mechanic Manyeruke, Mathias Mhere and Bethany Pasinawako will make a two-show tour of the United Kingdom (UK) in December. The three gospel artistes will share the stage with UK-based Timothy Ngwenya and Rhoda “Mai Tongogara” Masawi at the second edition of the annual Explosion of Praise Concert which will…
