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Thomas Mapfumo in final UK performance
Zimbabwean music legend and Chimurenga pioneer Thomas "Mukanya" Mapfumo will perform his final concert in the United Kingdom on August 23 at the New Bingley Hall in Birmingham, marking the end of an e...Published: 29 Jun 2025 at 12:04hrs | 371 | by Staff reporter
Mukanya, the great Chimurenga guru
Born Thomas Tafirenyika Muchadura Mapfumo. The epitome of a Chimurenga music guru. With a career spanning over 50 years, Mapfumo, whom his followers call Gandanga, has not let them down. Listening to ...Published: 23 Jun 2025 at 11:09hrs | 300 | by Leonard Koni
Mteki approaches Mukanya over Chivayo lavish offer
African roots musician and sculptor-cum-businessman Bryn Taurai Mteki has approached Chimurenga musician Thomas "Mukanya" Mapfumo to reconsider businessman Wicknell Chivayo's pledge.Last month...Published: 16 Apr 2024 at 17:57hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Chivayo begs Mukanya to accept his gifts
Wickell Chivayo strongly criticized journalist Hopewell Chin'ono in response to his remarks following musician Thomas Mapfumo's refusal of a contentious businessperson's car and home gifts.In ...Published: 25 Mar 2024 at 18:47hrs | 20 | by Staff reporter
Thomas Mapfumo criticises Wicknell Chivayo for using his money
Exiled Chimurenga music legend Thomas Mapfumo has criticised businessman Wicknell Chivayo and the Zanu PF government for donating expensive cars to musicians while ignoring the poor state of hospitals...Published: 10 Mar 2024 at 08:48hrs | 48 | by Staff reporter
Chimurenga music lives on -Kurai Makore
Chimurenga musician Kurai Makore believes his genre of music still lives on even after his uncle Thomas Mapfumo who was the founder is no longer in the country.Makore who is demanding a fair f...Published: 29 Jan 2024 at 10:14hrs | 76 | by Simbarashe Sithole
WATCH: Romeo Gasa joins Jah Lemmy on stage
Sungura musician Romeo "Simbi Hombe" Gasa is continuing to show his generosity to up and coming musicians by giving them a platform to perform at his shows.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HM8...Published: 08 Aug 2023 at 19:04hrs | 27 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Thomas Mapfumo retires in exile
OF all my records by Zimbabwean musicians, the one I treasure the most is Thomas Mapfumo's crackly 7-inch single with "Kuyaura" on side A and "Zvanyadza" on the flip side.Released in 1979, tow...Published: 17 Jul 2023 at 06:50hrs | 18 | by Percy Zvomuya
Mapfumo to end career after Saturday UK show
CHIMURENGA Music icon Thomas Mapfumo is set to call time on his illustrious career on Saturday.Mapfumo, an ardent Zanu-PF government critic, will make his last public appearance on stage at a ...Published: 21 Jun 2023 at 06:26hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Mukanya absconds Jah Prayzah, Winky D gig
Chimurenga music giant Thomas Mapfumo's last dance on stage before retiring from music performance will not be alongside next generation superstars Winky D and Jah Prayzah, it has emerged.Muka...Published: 21 Jun 2023 at 06:23hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Grammy Award for Mapfumo?
THOMAS Mapfumo, popularly known as Mukanya, might finally get a chance to win a Grammy Award following the addition of three new categories for the 2024 edition of these awards regarded by many as the...Published: 18 Jun 2023 at 08:40hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mukanya postpones the release of his new album
CHIMURENGA music veteran, Thomas Mapfumo has postponed the release of his new album offering to allow the compilation to undergo meticulous mixing and other technical specifications.The album ...Published: 22 Jan 2023 at 13:03hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Mapfumo sings 'Hona Satan arikutonga'
LEGENDARY Chimurenga Music singer Thomas Mapfumo has released a hard hitting single, Ndikutambire, a direct critique of the Zanu-PF regime as he prepares to drop his latest album which is similarly ti...Published: 11 Jan 2023 at 16:56hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Mukanya's open letter to Mnangagwa
DEAR President MnangagwaMy name is Thomas "Mukanya" Mapfumo the Chimurenga Music King. I am writing to you at this desperate hour to give you my free point of advice about the conditions in Zi...Published: 25 Nov 2022 at 05:11hrs | 8 | by Doctor Thomas Mapfumo
'Thomas Mapfumo free to return to Zimbabwe'
Government spokesperson Nick Mangwana says exiled Chimurenga music legend Thomas 'Mukanya' Mapfumo is free to return home to bury his late brother, Lancelot who died recently in the USA.This i...Published: 04 Oct 2022 at 06:22hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Thomas Mapfumo fears for his life
EXILED Chimurenga musician Thomas "Mukanya" Mapfumo says he will not be able to travel to Zimbabwe for the burial of his late brother Lancelot as he fears for his life.Lancelot, a percussionis...Published: 02 Oct 2022 at 11:27hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
ED Pfee hit maker laments lack of publicity
Chimurenga musician Admire "Chief Shumba" Sanyanga Sibanda who became popular with his hit song "ED Pfee" has lamented the lack of publicity.Chief Shumba believes he is working hard and is not...Published: 23 Nov 2021 at 09:39hrs | 16 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Thomas Mapfumo makes retirement U-turn
Uncertainty continues to cloud Chimurenga musician Thomas "Mukanya" Mapfumo's retirement arrangement following his affirmation of two shows slated for South Africa early next month and possibly, one i...Published: 10 Oct 2021 at 06:54hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's remains coming home
THE body of the late former CAPS United midfield kingpin, Joe Mugabe, is set to be repatriated to Zimbabwe for burial. Mugabe, who had been based in England since the turn of the millennium, s...Published: 10 Aug 2021 at 06:36hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mukanya drafts 'retirement' plan
CHIMURENGA musician Thomas "Mukanya" Mapfumo says he is setting up an arts and culture centre in Domboshava on the outskirts of Harare as part of his departure from the mainstream music industry, whic...Published: 25 Jul 2021 at 08:14hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Mapfumo calls for UN intervention in Zimbabwe
CELEBRATED United States- based Zimbabwean Chimurenga musician and human rights activist, Thomas Mapfumo, has appealed to the international community to immediately intervene and stop what he calls an...Published: 27 Feb 2021 at 08:26hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Shun tribalism & regionalism'
ZANU-PF leadership in Bulawayo yesterday joined the rest of the nation in commemorating Unity Day amid calls for Zimbabweans to shun tribalism and regionalism. Speakers, in their solidarity me...Published: 23 Dec 2020 at 06:45hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Chickens coming home to roost
FOR decades those courageous enough among us have been shouting themselves hoarse about corruption in this country.Some, such as Chimurenga music guru, Thomas Mapfumo, were hounded into self-i...Published: 10 Jun 2019 at 07:18hrs | 1 | by Editorial - NewsDay
Thomas Mapfumo, Winky D to headline Zimfest Live in August
Chimurenga musician Thomas Mapfumo and Zimdancehall star, Winky D will headline a top line-up of performers at Zimfest Live when it returns in August, it has been announced.ExQ, DJ Tamuka and ...Published: 28 May 2019 at 11:13hrs | 7 | by Tidi Kwidini
Zimbabwe blighted by a 'tsunami' of fake news
Zimbabwe has once been described as a country blighted by a 'tsunami' of fake news since the beginning of a "new dispensation" following the largely unexpected or seemingly impossible removal of forme...Published: 01 May 2019 at 09:31hrs | 18 | by John Masuku
Spirit mediums also didn't foresee Cyclone Idai calamity
RECENTLY, I was taken aback when I heard the Chief's Council president Fortune Charumbira mocking local prophets for failing to predict the devastating Cyclone Idai which killed hundreds and left thou...Published: 07 Apr 2019 at 12:44hrs | 2 | by Maxwell Sibanda
Machete terror gangs spreading mayhem in Mnangagwa's home province
Murder and violence are spreading in the mineral-rich Midlands - President Emmerson Mnangagwa's home province - as armed militias reportedly sponsored by politicians wreak havoc with impunity....Published: 07 Apr 2019 at 09:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Thomas Mapfumo apologises to Macheso
RENOWNED Chimurenga musician, Thomas Mapfumo has apologised for undermining fellow Zimbabwean artists live on air.During his visit to Zimbabwe, as Mukanya as Mapfumo is affectionately known in...Published: 04 Apr 2019 at 07:02hrs | 3 | by newzimbabwe
'Mugabe likes Leonard Zhakata's music'
Zora music star Leonard Zhakata, 51 says former President Robert Mugabe is a genius and everyone knows that. At the peak of his musical career Zhakata used to grace the annual 21st February Movement m...Published: 03 Apr 2019 at 17:59hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Mukanya finally returns to USA
CELEBRATED chimurenga musician Thomas Mapfumo finally left for the United States last Friday after more than two months in the country.Mapfumo arrived in the country in December last year for ...Published: 25 Mar 2019 at 11:05hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Thomas Mapfumo finally leaves for Unites States
Chimurenga musician Thomas Mapfumo finally left for his United States base after three months of speculation over his stay in the country. Mukanya, as the musician is popularly known, came for...Published: 25 Mar 2019 at 06:50hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
2 failed marriages, a broken past define Mukanya
Two broken marriages, transition from village life to the ghetto, a miscalculated sojourn into the diaspora, failed investments, a broken youth life, all carved the character of this man. This...Published: 23 Mar 2019 at 05:46hrs | 11 | by STaff reporter
Thomas Mapfumo's legacy under threat
A close-up chat with Chimurenga musician Thomas Mapfumo may dwell generously on his music and culture as much as it can give a sense that he is strikingly rattled by the waning influence his brand of ...Published: 17 Mar 2019 at 08:45hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Thomas Mapfumo stuck in Zimbabwe
Decorated Chimurenga musician Thomas "Mukanya" Mapfumo ,73, says he had to delay his return to Oregon in the United States of America where he has lived for close to 15 years in order to pay the...Published: 15 Mar 2019 at 11:01hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Political tags bad for local music
DURING January's bloody political protests, this reporter had a conversation with Winky D's manager, Jonathan Banda, who at the time, sounded very worried about the safety of his artiste as the politi...Published: 06 Mar 2019 at 07:04hrs | 3 | by Kennedy Nyavaya
Thomas Mapfumo claims $1,2 million defamation damages
United STATES-based Zimbabwean Chimurenga music guru, Thomas 'Mukanya' Mapfumo has approached the High Court seeking over $1,2 million from a local journalist for allegedly defaming him following the ...Published: 16 Feb 2019 at 20:13hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Knives out for Thomas Mapfumo
A former manager of Chimurenga music legend Thomas Mapfumo's Blacks Unlimited, Cuthbert Chiromo, has been dragged into the controversial fallout between Mapfumo and his former spokesperson Blessing Va...Published: 10 Feb 2019 at 19:14hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Thomas Mapfumo in $10,000 debt
Chimurenga music guru Thomas Mapfumo's 'peace tour' has sunk him into debt as it failed to perform according to expectations. The shows were being promoted by Entertainment Republic and Chimurenga Mus...Published: 07 Feb 2019 at 08:07hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
'Thomas Mapfumo's long stay in Zim justified'
Chimurenga musician Thomas "Mukanya" Mapfumo is yet to return to the United States having flown into the country at the beginning of December last year for countrywide gigs running under the banner Mu...Published: 03 Feb 2019 at 12:00hrs | 20 | by Staff reporter
'Tuku was the only husband I knew from the age of 18'
THE late music legend Oliver "Tuku" Mtukudzi's first wife, Melody Murape, has bared her soul on her marriage with the late singer who was declared a national hero, becoming the first artiste to receiv...Published: 26 Jan 2019 at 17:13hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mukanya has been misled
Dynamos board chairman, Bernard Marriot Lusengo, has broken his silence on the administrative problems bedevilling the Glamour Boys. The veteran administrator, who is the only surviving member...Published: 11 Jan 2019 at 18:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Thomas Mapfumo farewell gig date set
CHIMURENGA music icon Thomas "Mukanya" Mapfumo is set to stage his last show of the Peace Tour that began during the festive season last year at Pagango Truck Inn in Harare on Friday alongside rhumba ...Published: 10 Jan 2019 at 07:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Major events of 2018
As we say goodbye to 2018, the Daily News on Sunday reflects on some stories that grabbed newspaper headlines and dominated social media. Below are some of the highlights....Published: 06 Jan 2019 at 17:56hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mukanya wades into Dembare chaos
LEGENDARY Chimurenga music exponent Thomas "Mukanya" Mapfumo, concluded his "Peace Tour" with a show in Chitungwiza last Friday but there seems to be no peace to talk about at his beloved club Dynamos...Published: 06 Jan 2019 at 09:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mukanya returns to Gweru
Chimurenga music maestro Thomas "Mukanya" Mapfumo will perform a special make-up gig on Monday night at Gweru's Midlands Hotel as part of his Peace Tour and the musician still has fond memories of the...Published: 23 Dec 2018 at 09:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mukanya in make-up gig
Thomas "Mukanya" Mapfumo will this year celebrate Christmas with his Gweru fans who had felt robbed when an earlier show scheduled for the city failed to take off due to logistical challenges....Published: 19 Dec 2018 at 06:21hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mukanya will retire when he dies
IN a tiny changing room at the back of the Large City Hall stage in Bulawayo, timeless Chimurenga music icon, Thomas Mapfumo,was a calm and collected fellow before stunning all and sundry with a non-s...Published: 15 Dec 2018 at 09:32hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mukanya salutes Marabini
CHIMURENGA music icon Thomas "Mukanya" Mapfumo has heaped praise on Bulawayo Afro-pop musician, Jeys Marabini, for his music prowess and saluted him for putting Bulawayo on the music world map....Published: 12 Dec 2018 at 05:45hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Thomas Mapfumo's Bulawayo show turns political
CAUGHT by the revolutionary frenzy, Chimurenga music fans turned Thomas Mapfumo's Bulawayo show on Saturday show into a political demonstration as Mukanya belted out his politically charged tracks, wh...Published: 10 Dec 2018 at 05:59hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Thomas Mapfumo Gweru show flops
Ageless Chimurenga music legend Thomas Tafirenyika Mapfumo's maiden Peace Tour show slated for Gweru on Friday night failed to take off amid a plethora of challenges that left music lovers, who had pa...Published: 09 Dec 2018 at 07:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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