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Songbird Ammi Jamanda has challenged music promoters to consider the female quota when organising festivals. The energetic Afro jazz artist reckons females pursuing secular music were being side-lined by festival organisers. She opened up following her late inclusion in the Bindura Music Festival to be held at Trojan Mine Stadium …

Caleb McLaughlin has felt the “toll” of racism since rising to fame on “Stranger Things”. The 20-year-old actor – who has played Lucas Sinclair on the show since its first series launched on Netflix in 2016 and has appeared in all four seasons to date – has recalled the treatment …

A star-studded line-up is set to give revellers a cheer at this year’s edition of the Chibuku Road To Fame grand finale slated for Glamis Arena in Harare this weekend. The line-up includes Winky D, Mark Ngwazi and Baba Harare, who are set to headline the after-party when the battle …

United States-based rights group PEN America has called on Zimbabwean authorities to drop charges against world acclaimed writer and filmmaker Tsitsi Dangarembga. The Harare-based writer will know her fate Thursday in case where she is charged with inciting public violence. “Tsitsi Dangarembga was arrested for exercising her right to peaceful …

The Mandela Rhodes Foundation (MRF) has announced four of its award winners for its social impact award the Äänit Prize. The four winners – all of them young leaders – are focused on society’s most marginalised and drawn from three countries – South Africa, Lesotho and Zimbabwe. Each will receive …

A group of rogue bouncers is on the prowl in Harare spoiling many gigs, through harassment of revellers, theft and fraud forcing music promoters to issue a statement yesterday. While bouncers are needed to control things in the rough turf of showbiz, the group is said to be overdoing it, …

IT is just over three years since the death of former President Robert Mugabe, but the once fierce leader continues to make waves from the grave. Just like he attracted attention in life, Mugabe continues to hog the limelight posthumously. The recently premiered film, titled Mugabe which chronicles Mugabe’s rise …

IN a dramatic turn of events, a High Court judge has ordered the Sheriff of the High Court to immediately pay back US$18 400 to the South African Scorpion Kings’ DJ duo of Kabza DeSmall and Maphorisa which the two had paid as security to avoid civil imprisonment.  Petros Kabelo …

Zimbabwean Nobesuthu Lisa Khumalo was one of the singers to feature in the third week of The Voice Poland’s blind auditions at the weekend. She sang”Down On My Knees” by Ayo, which convinced one of the judges Marek Piekarczyk. “I feel that ‘The Voice of Poland is the beginning of …

Top South African DJs Kabza De Small and Maphorisa left Zimbabwe on Monday after shelling out US$18,400 (about R315,000) to avoid arrest for failing to perform at a festival in Victoria Falls in April, despite pocketing booking fees. A court ordered the duo’s arrest hours before they staged a show …