School drop-out MaYoghurt finds success in music, TV

JOHANESSBURG. — South Africa’s Short and Sweet reality TV star Yamkelani Jama, popularly known as MaYoghurt, says he has never once questioned his height or cried to God about it.…

. . . grand finale of Mukanya’s 65-year music marathon

Prince Mushawevato Society Editor THOMAS “Mukanya” Mapfumo has held two memorable homecoming biras — in 2004 and 2018 — since his self-imposed exile at the turn of the millennium. In…

MUKANYA’S LAST DANCE . . . Singer won’t relocate to Zim. . . Reveals new business interests. . . Wants to be buried back home

Trust Khosa Zimpapers Arts and Entertainment Hub CHIMURENGA music icon Thomas “Mukanya” Mapfumo insists that his upcoming show in Zimbabwe in April will be his swansong before he retires from…

WATCH: Safeguarding course ends

Lovemore Dube, [email protected] TWENTY participants completed a five-module course in Girls Positive and Safe Coaching Pathway in Bulawayo on Friday. The programme is promoted by the International Sport For All…

Bulawayo Volleyball Association honours its own

Lovemore Dube THE Bulawayo Volleyball Association held its annual awards ceremony on 17 January where past and present performers in the sport were honoured. The biggest prize went to Vulindlela…

Where memory ends and fear begins. . .Dementia and the price of growing old

Bruce Ndlovu, [email protected] WHEN Laizah Moyo of Masendu Village in Bulilima District, Matabeleland South Province, wandered into a neighbour’s homestead late one night, she unknowingly stepped into the crosshairs of…

When the music grows up…Inside Bulawayo’s no under-23 party

Bruce Ndlovu, [email protected] EVERY time Davison Feliate stepped out into a pub or a nightclub in Bulawayo, he noticed that the people who surrounded him were increasingly getting younger. At…

The Malaba people of Zimbabwe

The Malaba people came to south western Zimbabwe in the first quarter of the nineteenth century. They are of Venda origins and are associated with the Thobela Mbedzi Mwali shrine…

‘Home Alone’ mother Catherine O’Hara dies aged 71

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Catherine O’Hara, a gifted Canadian-born comic actor and SCTV alum, who starred as Macaulay Culkin’s harried mother in two Home Alone movies and won an Emmy…

Lunga’s legacy: From plastic balls to national goals and beyond

GROWING up Gift Lunga (Senior) had so many players to envy as football was part of his Makokoba DNA. Every youngster played street football and it was common for boys…

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