adminTuku’s new musical ‘Masango Bodo’ premieres at 7 Arts
Richmore TeraArts Correspondent
SUPERSTAR Oliver Mtukudzi will add another feather to his cap when his new musical “Masanga Bodo” premieres at the 7 Arts Theatre in Avondale, Harare, this Friday.
This is Tuku’s third musical after “Was My Child” and “Nzou neMhuru” which were released to critical acclaim.
Prince Mafukidze up for top gospel award
Jonathan MbiriyamvekaEntertainment Reporter
Singer Prince Mafukidze is up for Africa Gospel Awards scheduled for London, England, at the Hippodrome on July 7, 2012.
Mafukidze, who is more popularly known as “The Real Prince Mwana Wamambo”, was nominated for Best Gospel Artiste Southern Africa although it is not clear for which song. It is highly likely that it was the video of “Swedera Mudhuze” which did the rounds on YouTube.
AfricaMagic spreads its showbiz wings
Africa Magic Entertainment recently launched Star Gist, the continent’s very own answer to showbiz buzz, up-to-the-minute entertainment and trend news.A new dancehall sensation is born!
Richmore TeraA NEW whizkid has entered the music scene.
Star Brite heads for finale
Entertainment ReporterTHE national finals of the talent search show Star Brite will be held at the end of July or beginning of August during the school holidays, organisers have revealed.
Barney Mpariwa, the producer and director of the show, said this as contestants in the talent show went into boot camp where they received grooming tips ahead of the finals that will see the best in music, dance and other art genres being crowned and walking away with prizes.
Time to break away from tradition
The difference between the Zimbabwe stone sculpture movement and other art movements around the globe is that our movement is strongly linked and intertwined with the extended family.Family discord at the heart of ‘Table Manners’
Entertainment ReporterFamily squabbles are at the heart of “Table Manners”, a comedy now running in Theatre Upstairs at Reps in Harare.
Massive corruption rocks fuel industry
Sydney Kawadza and Tendai Mugabe
Biti warned
Felex ShareHerald Reporter
CIVIL servants’ unions have warned Finance Minister Tendai Biti
President leaves for UN conference in Brazil
Morris Mkwate
Herald Reporter
President Mugabe left Harare last night to attend the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20), which begins in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Wednesday.
He is expected to join other world leaders and other stakeholders in formulating strategies aimed at reducing poverty, advancing social equity and ensuring environmental protection.
The three-day interface is taking place in Rio de Janeiro to mark the 20th Anniversary of the 1992 UN Conference on Environment and Development held in the same city.
It also coincides with the 10th Anniversary of the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, South Africa.
The conference will home in on two central themes: “A green economy in the context of sustainable development (poverty eradication) and the institutional framework for sustainable development”.