HARARE – Harare has failed to provide the expected number of suitable girls for the Miss Zimbabwe boot camp set to run from April 1 to 25. The national pageant’s auditions that ran from Friday to Sunday in the capital city had netted only 10 suitable girls by the end of Saturday. Interstingly, Bulawayo delivered…
HARARE – LIively Zimdancehall artiste Dadza D will share the stage with Jamaican reggae star Luciano in South Africa on April 3 in Cape Town. At the same high profile gig, the Zimbabwean artiste, who is also known by the moniker Prince of Fire, will also play alongside the curiously-named South African roots reggae artiste…
HARARE – Award-winning musician Jah Prayzah says his current recording company Diamond Studios will not handle his forthcoming 10-track album Jerusarema set to be launched in May at the Harare International Conference Centre (HICC). The Uzumba-born musician has entered into a new record deal with Jive Zimbabwe after dumping Diamond Studios which recorded and distributed…
HARARE – In Zimbabwe, just like elsewhere in the world, awards entice a lot of scrutiny due to the divergent views on who should be honoured and more importantly the criteria that should determine laureates. Given the fact that the National Arts Merit Awards (Nama) are the country’s only multidisciplinary arts gongs it is not…
HARARE – Gospel star Takesure Zamar Ncube, who featured on the Joyous Celebration live DVD in South Africa in December last year, is assembling a 30-member choir. Ncube’s Worship Addicts recently held auditions which attracted over 300 hopefuls. The rising group’s producer Tremier Msipa, Nolan Kahonde and Rumbidzai Sengwayo conducted the auditions. Ncube, who fronts…
HARARE – Organisers of the National Arts Merit Awards (Nama) say the Outstanding Male Musician and Female Musician Awards are not necessarily given to artistes who have released the most successful albums. Dendera music star Suluman Chimbetu was heckled at the Nama ceremony held at 7 Arts Theatre on Valentine’s Day when he went to…
HARARE – Tanaka and Tafadzwa Chiriga, two brothers who go by the name Black Fin, have released a 15-track album titled Hokoyo Harare-based Tanaka and his sibling Tafadzwa who resides in New York believe they have released an album that takes Zimbabwean and African hip-hop to uncharted territory. The brothers believe various elements gleaned from…
BULAWAYO – Talent Explorer in Nguboyenja (Ten) has embarked on a community building project aimed at identifying art and sporting talent in the city’s high density suburbs. The project which will see the exposure of such disciplines as street soccer, drumming and music is set to kick off at Nguboyenja shopping centre today. Run by…
LONDON – Throughout the years, Africa has continuously remained an incredible well of inspiration for the fashion industry, at times with great results but all too often with a — shall we say — redundant range of stereotypes.In the past 20 years alone, an impressive number of fashion houses have thrived on this fruitfully. Still…
HARARE – Controversial movie 50 Shades of Grey, which premiered last Friday at Ster Kinekor Eastgate and Westgate, won’t be shown again in Zimbabwe, it has emerged. Well-placed sources told the Daily News yesterday that the Censorship Board of Zimbabwe only gave permission to the heavily-censored version of the erotic movie to be shown once…
