Thomas “Mukanya” Mapfumo is facing a US$50,000 High Court claim after his former publicist accused him and band manager Cuthbert Chiromo of making defamatory statements that portrayed him as a witch, thief and manipulator. The court action emerged as businessman Wicknell Chivayo used a lavish US$108,000 gift package to bring musician Selmor Mtukudzi together with […]

HARARE — Youth minister Tinoda Machakaire has issued a strong warning to comedian Admire Mushambi, better known as Mama Vee, after the cross-dressing performer was accused of disregarding Zimbabwe’s cultural sensitivities and using social media content to provoke the authorities. Machakaire delivered the warning in a Facebook comment directed at Mushambi, whose comic videos feature […]

ZBC launches door-to-door TV and radio licence inspections across Harare estates The Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation will begin a two-week door-to-door inspection campaign in Harare on Monday, sending licensing teams into some of the capital’s largest gated communities and residential estates as it intensifies efforts to collect television and radio licence fees. The exercise will run […]

Zimbabwe’s cover-band war widens as musicians demand answers on royalties HARARE – Dino Mudondo has become the latest musician to enter Zimbabwe’s bitter dispute over cover bands after accusing The Travellers Band of disrespecting him by performing some of his best-known songs at a wedding where both acts had been booked to entertain guests. The […]

A number of Zimbabwean artists have rallied behind Ammara Brown after the singer described a painful run of events involving theft, illness, online bullying and a frightening accident involving her son. The award-winning musician opened up about the difficult weeks in an emotional appeal for prayers, saying the troubles had unfolded while she was working […]

Zimbabwean Afro-pop singer Ammara Brown has turned to prayer after a succession of distressing events disrupted her work, family life and travel plans over the past three weeks. The Nyarara hitmaker made an emotional appeal to Zimbabweans in a video posted on Facebook under the caption “Please Pray for me”. Brown said the difficult period […]

Malaika Mushandu takes Miss Cosmo Zimbabwe dethronement fight to court Malaika Mushandu’s brief reign as Miss Cosmo Zimbabwe 2026 has moved from a pageant stage in Harare to the High Court, after the former queen filed an application seeking to overturn the decision that stripped her of the title. Mushandu was crowned on June 6, […]

I’ve been watching something develop over the past year and a half that honestly surprised me. Whenever ZESA drops another load shedding announcement, my younger cousins don’t even flinch anymore. They just grab their phones. Last Tuesday at 7:34pm I was at my brother’s place in Borrowdale when the lights cut out. His two boys, […]

HARARE – Zimdancehall couple Hulungende and Malloti were dragged from the stage and arrested shortly after performing at the Doek and Slay event at Glamis Arena in Harare, bringing a turbulent run of cancelled shows, angry promoters and disappointed fans to a dramatic climax. The arrest on Sunday came after weeks of complaints surrounding the […]

HARARE – Rockford “Roki” Josphats has apologised for the public drama that followed a viral video showing him being confronted and pulled by an unidentified woman in Harare, while insisting that he did not have sex with her and that he was assaulted during the altercation. The Urban Grooves star has faced intense public attention […]