Kee-Tui won for her short story Tattered Cloth. The short story was judged the best out of 81 short stories submitted this year.

 

The Intwasa Short Story Competition is an annual event organised by Intwasa Arts Festival koBulawayo.
Kee-Tui’s Tattered Cloth faced stiff competition from Sipho Mpofu’s A Congenial Man and Nixon Nembaware’s The Rain God of Nyatanga Hill.  For her efforts  Kee-Tui won $500.

The Yvonne Vera Award is supported by Hivos and the Norwegian Embassy and seeks to promote and honour creative writing, particularly short story writing in Zimbabwe.

Tattered Cloth is the story of forbidden love and a relationship that is doomed from the beginning. It is well told and almost seamless.

The judges fell in love with the story and heaped praise upon praise on Kee-Tui’s narrative skills.

Another Intwasa 2012 competition, Bulawayo’s Most Amazing Talents, was won by the youthful and very talented dance group X-plosion. The group hails from  Makokoba and was discovered at Amakhosi Cultural Centre.

Festival administrator Runyararo Cynthia Mutandi said the group was obviously destined for greater heights.

X-plosion is the second winner of the talent show after the now highly popular Family Voices scooped the inaugural prize.

She said X-plosion beat a host of other talent acts — music, dance, comedy — who had progressed to the finals of the growing talent show. For their efforts the group went home with $500, also from Hivos and Norwegian Embassy.

The popular Plan High Schools was won by Mpopoma High School. Mpopoma grabbed three awards during the finals. Hazel Sibanda won the outstanding actress award, a Mr Mongoro won the best director award while the school’s play was adjudged the best.

For the second year in a row Gifford Boys High came second. They also scooped three awards; best supporting actor, best actor and their play was second.

“Foundation Technical College was third. They also scooped three prizes. They got best supporting actress, best cameo role and their play won third prize,” she said.

The 8th edition of Intwasa Arts Festival koBulawayo was a total success, painting Bulawayo bright with several colourful acts  from theatre, dance, and music, poetry, and book launches.

 

Kee-Tui won for her short story Tattered Cloth. The short story was judged the best out of 81 short stories submitted this year.

The Intwasa Short Story Competition is an annual event organised by Intwasa Arts Festival koBulawayo.

Kee-Tui’s Tattered Cloth faced stiff competition from Sipho Mpofu’s A Congenial Man and Nixon Nembaware’s The Rain God of Nyatanga Hill.  For her efforts  Kee-Tui won $500.

The Yvonne Vera Award is supported by Hivos and the Norwegian Embassy and seeks to promote and honour creative writing, particularly short story writing in Zimbabwe.

Tattered Cloth is the story of forbidden love and a relationship that is doomed from the beginning. It is well told and almost seamless.
The judges fell in love with the story and heaped praise upon praise on Kee-Tui’s narrative          skills.

Another Intwasa 2012 competition, Bulawayo’s Most Amazing Talents, was won by the youthful and very talented dance group X-plosion. The group hails from  Makokoba and was discovered at Amakhosi Cultural Centre.

Festival administrator Runyararo Cynthia Mutandi said the group was obviously destined for greater heights.
X-plosion is the second winner of the talent show after the now highly popular Family Voices scooped the inaugural prize.

She said X-plosion beat a host of other talent acts — music, dance, comedy — who had progressed to the finals of the growing talent show. For their efforts the group went home with $500, also from Hivos and Norwegian Embassy.

The popular Plan High Schools was won by Mpopoma High School. Mpopoma grabbed three awards during the finals. Hazel Sibanda won the outstanding actress award, a Mr Mongoro won the best director award while the school’s play was adjudged the best.

For the second year in a row Gifford Boys High came second. They also scooped three awards; best supporting actor, best actor and their play was second.

“Foundation Technical College was third. They also scooped three prizes. They got best supporting actress, best cameo role and their play won third prize,” she said.

The 8th edition of Intwasa Arts Festival koBulawayo was a total success, painting Bulawayo bright with several colourful acts from theatre, dance, and music, poetry, and book launches.