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Sticky fingers accountant nicks 160 000 Pula
AN employee at Skyz Metro FM in Bulawayo has appeared in court facing 18 charges of theft after he allegedly stole about P160 000 in the past three years.Majahawodwa Dubindlela appeared before...Published: 09 Feb 2024 at 06:50hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Dr Qhubani Moyo seeking to represent Zanu-PF in Insiza
Former MDC and ex- Zimbabwe Electoral Commission official, Qhubani Moyo is now seeking to represent Zanu-PF in the Insiza North constituency of Matabeleland South. Dr Moyo was once Fairtalk Co...Published: 13 Mar 2023 at 07:15hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's new TV station knocked off air by technical fault
One of the newly-launched TV stations - Ke Yona TV - has been knocked off air by a fault.The Bulawayo-based station launched its full programming on February 1 on channel 398 on the Azam TV pl...Published: 06 Feb 2023 at 20:51hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
National Hero Cont Mhlanga memorial set for tomorrow
THE memorial service for the late arts doyen Cont Mhlanga will be held tomorrow at the Amphitheatre in Bulawayo, before a drive through the city in his honour ahead of his burial in Lupane, Matabelela...Published: 04 Aug 2022 at 06:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa mourns Cont
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has accorded late playwright Cont Mhlanga a State-assisted funeral and has given the family $2,5 million for funeral expenses.This was revealed by Bulawayo Minister of Stat...Published: 03 Aug 2022 at 06:44hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Who will Continue your work?
INTABA enkulu idilikile sums up the impact of the death of one of the country's icons of the arts, Cont Mhlanga.Cont (64) died yesterday morning at the United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH) after be...Published: 02 Aug 2022 at 06:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Cont Mhlanga mourned
One of the country's icons of the arts, Cont Mhlanga, died yesterday morning at the United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH) after being admitted 10 days ago.He was 64.His family said he succum...Published: 02 Aug 2022 at 06:43hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Cont Mhlanga in hospital
The National Arts Council of Zimbabwe (NACZ) has advised stakeholders and practitioners in the Cultural and Creative Industries (CCIs) that NAMA legend Cont Mhlanga has been admitted to a health care ...Published: 26 Jul 2022 at 20:42hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mutsvangwa explains new TV stations roll-out
All the six new free to air private television stations that were issued with broadcasting licences have got a statutory 18 months within which to go on air, legislators heard yesterday. Infor...Published: 17 Jun 2021 at 06:07hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Three new TV stations risk losing licences
Three new television stations risk losing their licences after failing to pay licensing fees to the Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe (BAZ) by the deadline of January 21. Last year the Govern...Published: 23 Apr 2021 at 19:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mutsvangwa fights to open Zimbabwe airwaves more
THE government said yesterday that it planned to open up the country's airwaves further by issuing more television and radio licences to independent players.Speaking during a well-supported Da...Published: 09 Apr 2021 at 23:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
A bad-bye to a bad year
Arsenal's emphatic win over Chelsea at the Emirates stadium on Boxing day lifted my spirits in a tenuous and gloomy year in which the despondent people of this country were boxed down mainly by the tw...Published: 01 Jan 2021 at 19:08hrs | 1 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
More radio stations coming, says BAZ
Zimbabwe's media reforms are moving swiftly forward with the Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe (BAZ) now verifying information and carrying out fact-finding missions in the communities that submitted...Published: 03 Dec 2020 at 06:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF emerges biggest winner in major scandal
THE ruling Zanu-PF, which thrives on a chokehold grip on airwaves to win elections by hook or crook, has emerged as the biggest winner in the controversial awarding of six new free-to-air licences to ...Published: 29 Nov 2020 at 19:28hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ke Yona TV hits ground running Appoints Cont chairperson
NEWLY-licensed Ke Yona TV has hit the ground running as they have appointed veteran playwright and content producer, Cont Mhlanga as the chairperson of the TV station's board of directors. Ope...Published: 24 Nov 2020 at 04:25hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Media organisations cry foul over television licensing
LOCAL media organisations yesterday cried foul over the granting of television licenses to six entities linked to the ruling Zanu-PF party and government.The Broadcasting Association of Zimbab...Published: 21 Nov 2020 at 22:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
6 Zanu-PF linked TV stations get licences
Six new free-to-air private television stations will go live in Zimbabwe within the next 18 months, joining ZBCTV, after the Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe (BAZ) yesterday issued licences, ending ...Published: 21 Nov 2020 at 22:15hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Mnangagwa adviser's company seeks TV licence
Interviews by the Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe (BAZ) for six slots available for free-to-air television licences began on Monday and are expected to run until the 21st of this month.Four...Published: 16 Oct 2020 at 06:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbawe to have free to air tv channel licences by November
Successful applicants for the six free to air national commercial television licences will be issued with licences to operate by the end of November.This was revealed during the ongoing public...Published: 12 Oct 2020 at 19:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Umcimbi Wabantu brings Dr Malinga
SOUTH Africa's Dr Malinga will be one of the main acts at the Skyz Metro FM Umcimbi Wabantu concert taking place at the Large City Hall car park next month. The concert on August 31 will be pa...Published: 08 Jul 2019 at 07:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Babongile Sikhonjwa leaves Skyz Metro FM
Radio personality and Socialite Babongile Sikhonjwa is leaving Bulawayo's only commercial radio station Skyz Metro FM after close to three of being part of the initiative.Sikhonjwa was anchori...Published: 07 Feb 2019 at 10:36hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Qhubani Moyo on life behind the scenes
IN 2015, Qhubani Moyo was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Skyz Metro FM, Bulawayo's first independent commercial radio station.Moyo has long been associated with radio, having been part o...Published: 28 Jan 2018 at 08:10hrs | 4 | by Allan Foti
Victoria Falls' Breeze FM goes live
VICTORIA Falls' first radio station-Breeze FM went live on Friday morning bringing an end to the anxiety of the resort town's residents.The station, owned by Fairtalk Communications, which...Published: 28 Feb 2017 at 06:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Victoria Falls radio ready to go live
PROPRIETORS of Victoria Falls' first ever radio station, Breeze FM say they are ready to go live on air before end of month.Fairtalk Communications chief executive Qhubani Moyo said they h...Published: 20 Jan 2017 at 05:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Trevor Ncube's Alpha Media cry tribalism over failed radio bid
Carryslot (Pvt) Ltd, trading as Skyz FM, which is linked to Alpha Media Holdings, proprietors of NewsDay, The Standard and Zimbabwe Independent has accused the Broadcasting Authority of Zimb...Published: 04 Aug 2016 at 09:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
BAZ accused of tribalism - 'Ndebele speakers can't tune to their stations of choice'
A PROSPECTIVE private broadcaster, Carryslot Investment (Private) Ltd, yesterday filed an Administrative Court challenge against the Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe (BAZ)'s decision to issue br...Published: 04 Aug 2016 at 07:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
6 radio licence holders on the brink
THE Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe (BAZ) has said that it will not be lenient with commercial radio stations that acquired broadcasting licences early last year if they fail to meet the stipulated...Published: 05 Jun 2016 at 11:08hrs | | by Prince Mushawevato
Moyo speaks on Skyz FM radio licence
PEOPLE who claim that Fairtalk Communications got its radio licences through the benevolence of Information, Media and Broadcasting Services Minister Professor Jonathan Moyo should face reality and ad...Published: 08 Mar 2015 at 12:43hrs | | by Lungile Tshuma
Skyz Metro FM promises to shake airwaves
SKYZ Metro FM, the newly licensed commercial radio station, has promised to shake the airwaves and deliver specialised content that would entertain, satisfy and educate its listenership.In an ...Published: 05 Mar 2015 at 18:55hrs | | by Senzeni Ncube
'We are not a subsidiary of Zanu-PF'
Fairtalk Communication's Skyz Metro FM shareholder, celebrated playwright Cont Mhlanga has dismissed claims that the radio stations that got licences were linked to Zanu-PF."Those who attended...Published: 05 Mar 2015 at 07:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
MISA Zimbabwe condemns new radio licence allocation as partisan
The Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe (BAZ) has granted radio licences to eight companies but the Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA Zimbabwe) has dismissed the move as an entrenchment of the s...Published: 04 Mar 2015 at 12:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Qhubani Moyo's Skyz Metro FM wins Bulawayo radio licence race
SKYZ Metro FM has become the first commercial radio station in Bulawayo after the Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe (BAZ) issued the station with a licence, Chronicle reported.The station...Published: 04 Mar 2015 at 06:35hrs | 1 | by Temba Dube
8 Zanu-PF linked radio stations get licences
Five local companies have been issued with a total of eight commercial radio broadcasting service licences.In a statement, the board chairman of the Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe (BAZ) Dr...Published: 03 Mar 2015 at 21:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ezra Tshisa Sibanda's Skiez FM displays poor show
Skies Radio (Pvt) Ltd, trading as Skies FM and fronted by Ezra Tshisa Sibanda has displayed a jumbled presentation late this afternoon as the bidders tried frantically to convince the radi...Published: 02 Sep 2014 at 16:33hrs | | by Hangoyapalala waTjibundule
Radio licence race heats up
....as Byo community rallies behind Amakhosi's Skyz Metro FM HUNDREDS of people from Bulawayo thronged Rainbow Hotel in the morning today to suppor...Published: 02 Sep 2014 at 12:07hrs | | by Hangoyapalala waTjibundule
18 radio applicants shortlisted
The Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe has short-listed 18 applicants for local commercial radio licences, among them Zimpapers, that owns one of two private radio station in the country, Star FM....Published: 21 May 2014 at 11:01hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
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