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Did Mtukudzi speak his troubled life in song?
"TATSAUKA pano nekuti paita Tuku, (We passed by because you are playing Tuku music)" my late brother Johannes and his friend Evaristo Chiwara once told merrymakers in Rimuka, Kadoma, in the late 1990s...Published: 17 Oct 2024 at 09:03hrs | 3580 | by Moses Chibaya
Kariba buzzing as tourists flock in
THE tourism sector has received a festive boost in the resort town of Kariba, with full to capacity bookings during the Christmas season, The NewsHawks has gathered. Tour operators and hospitality ind...Published: 30 Dec 2023 at 16:32hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa sons 'grab' local showbiz
THE ruling Zanu-PF has intensified its capture of the creative arts industry, which plays a pivotal role of social commentary, by placing many artistes under the party wings.This comes after P...Published: 20 Aug 2023 at 09:29hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF MP Musanhi's son in court after ramming wife's car, pointing gun
The son of Zanu-PF MP and businessman Kenneth Musanhi has appeared in court charged with the attempted murder of his estranged wife.Tariro Musanhi, 35, turned his Toyota D4D into a weapon and ...Published: 31 Jul 2023 at 17:23hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter
Self-styled prophet jailed for rape
A self-styled prophet from Chitungwiza has been jailed five years for taking a young girl as payment for cleansing the family home in addition to two beasts.In what appeared more like a movie ...Published: 09 May 2023 at 06:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Tuku's unreleased music stolen
TODAY marks exactly three years to the day legendary music icon and national hero Dr Oliver "Tuku" Mtukudzi breathed his last. The revered and highly decorated musician died at the age of 66, and had ...Published: 23 Jan 2022 at 07:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere mourns Munatsi
Exiled Saviour Kasukuwere sent his condolence message to the Munatsi family following the untimely death of Chief Executive Officer of Zimbabwe Investment Development Agency, Douglas Munatsi who died ...Published: 29 Nov 2021 at 12:33hrs | 5 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Misheck Chidzambwa dies
ZIFA have expressed sadness at the passing away of former Zimbabwe coach and captain, Misheck Chidzambwa.Chidzambwa died on Thursday night at the age of 66.The former defender has been...Published: 25 Jun 2021 at 17:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Parents rush for Form 1 places
SCHOOLS in Bulawayo were yesterday overwhelmed by parents and guardians seeking Form One places for their children following the release of Grade Seven results last week. Some of the schools w...Published: 11 Feb 2021 at 06:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Go well Uncle Kingdom Mupfumisi
Our impromptu meeting at a ZANLA base near Nyaupfu River was quite scary, full of intrigue and surprises. Nyaupfu River meanders eastwards near Mupuyo Hill in Chiweshe, Mash. Central. Though y...Published: 03 Sep 2019 at 19:20hrs | | by Thomas Tondorindo Murisa
Cop, four others in court for robbery
A suspected police officer and his four accomplices who masqueraded as passengers and a taxi driver, have been arraigned on allegations of robbing six unsuspecting passengers and an airtime vendor in ...Published: 30 Jul 2019 at 07:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chibaya trial set for Wednesday
The trial of MDC-Alliance national organising secretary Amos Chibaya, who is being charged for inciting violence, has been set for Wednesday. Chibaya, who is being represented by Mr Reginald C...Published: 25 Feb 2019 at 08:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-Alliance MPs trial dates set
THE trial of MDC-Alliance National organising secretary, Amos Chibaya, who is being charged for inciting violence, has been set for Wednesday.Chibaya, who is being represented by Mr Reginald C...Published: 24 Feb 2019 at 06:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mtukudzi family feud escalates as Daisy moves to block Selmor
ON Monday February 18 at 6.23pm, a statement appeared on the Tuku Music Official Facebook page, part of it read; "We would like to distance ourselves from any events or gatherings that are being held ...Published: 24 Feb 2019 at 06:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chibaya trial deferred again
GWERU provincial magistrate Charity Maphosa yesterday postponed to next Friday the trial of MDC organising secretary, Amos Chibaya who is facing charges of inciting violence, after the State failed to...Published: 12 Feb 2019 at 07:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mtukudzi's in-laws bitter
Mr Fred Gasho is bitter that the family of the late national hero Oliver Mtukudzi did not alert him, as per traditional custom, of the demise of his son-in-law. Mr Gasho is the biological father of Da...Published: 10 Feb 2019 at 05:43hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Jah Prayzah tribute to Oliver Mtukudzi
Multi award winning musician Jah Prayzah has released a tribute to the Late, national hero and veteran Musician Dr. Oliver "Samanyanga" Mtukudzi.The song Titled Gamuchirai has clocked ab...Published: 30 Jan 2019 at 13:47hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chamisa ally granted $500 bail, rearrested on fresh serious charges
MDC-Alliance organising secretary Amos Chibaya was yesterday granted $500 bail on allegations of inciting violence and immediately rearrested on charges of plotting to overthrow the Government. ...Published: 29 Jan 2019 at 23:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tuku's first wife sidelined at funeral
THE late music icon Oliver "Tuku" Mtukudzi has been widely regarded as a unifier, an exemplary father figure, but events at his burial in his rural Madziwa home yesterday suggested otherwise, as his e...Published: 28 Jan 2019 at 10:46hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa thanks Mtukudzi's family
MDC Leader Nelson Chamisa has paid tribute to the family of the late Mtukudzi for allowing Zimbabweans to mourn the super star.Tuku was laid to rest in his rural home Madziwa on Sunday....Published: 28 Jan 2019 at 06:56hrs | 10 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mtukudzi's journey was not rosy
Tuku, it was a great honour for me to share that small portion of your journey of life. Yours was a very long journey in those short 66 years that you lived. It was a journey full of ups and d...Published: 26 Jan 2019 at 16:56hrs | | by Chirikure Chirikure
Mtukudzi cheated with Stella Chiweshe's daughter?
The late veteran musician Oliver Mtukudzi is alleged to have been engaged in an adulterous relationship with Mbira maestro Stella Chiwesha's daughter Virginia.This was revealed by journa...Published: 26 Jan 2019 at 14:58hrs | 7 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Tuku - The Fallen Elephant
Surprisingly depressing.An uplifting mentor.An International Motivational tool.A depicter of life changing melodies.Everywhere I hear people chanting,Tuku! All over.Dr Tuku...Published: 25 Jan 2019 at 14:47hrs | | by Gerald Tapiwa Moyo
Zimbabwe, way forward will be great tribute to the great icon Oliver Mtukudzi?
Dialogue is a way to solve all the problems we are facing as a nation. The way forward is to do away with strongman spirit. Going forward, we must correct wrongs now. We need to value humanity. The go...Published: 25 Jan 2019 at 13:23hrs | | by Enos Denhere
PHOTOS: Chamisa and Mujuru at Tuku's home
Former Vice President Joice Mujuru and MDC leader Nelson Chamisa were among those who thronged to the home of the late musician Oliver Mtukudzi to pay his last respects. Chamisa said Mtukudzi ...Published: 24 Jan 2019 at 12:44hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Tuku a cultural icon, a world changer, a true superstar and legend
ICON. Superstar. Legend. Three words that have been used to describe departed Zimbabwe music icon Oliver Mtukudzi. Mtukudzi thoroughly deserved the accolade. His almost four-decades long music career ...Published: 24 Jan 2019 at 09:28hrs | 2 | by Methuseli Moyo
Oliver Mtukudzi had blood cancer?
The late super star Oliver Mtukudzi might have suffered from blood cancer, journalist Lenin Ndebele reveals.In his tribute to the late global icon, Ndebele says when he was a young journalist ...Published: 23 Jan 2019 at 21:26hrs | 9 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Ailing Mtukudzi misses Coca-Cola awards
Superstar Oliver "Tuku" Mtukudzi failed to attend the ZBC Coca-Cola winners' prize-giving ceremony held at a local hotel yesterday in Harare due to an undisclosed illness.Popularly known as Sa...Published: 23 Jan 2019 at 11:42hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's top ally remanded in custody
MDC-Alliance organising secretary Amos Chibaya has joined his fellow lawmaker from Chiwundura Livingstone Chiminya in remand prison after he was remanded in custody to next week to allow police to loc...Published: 22 Jan 2019 at 23:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC MPs, 21 others denied bail
MDC Alliance Chiwundura MP Livingstone Chiminya will spend another week in remand prison as police intensify a manhunt for two witnesses who allegedly fled after being intimidated by unknown people be...Published: 22 Jan 2019 at 08:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Violence witnesses scared to testify
TWO State witnesses in the case of MDC-Alliance Member of Parliament for Chiwundura Livingstone Chiminya's alleged incitement to commit a crime fled after being intimidated by unknown people before th...Published: 21 Jan 2019 at 08:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-Alliance MPs arrested over Gweru violence
MDC Alliance organising secretary Amos Chibaya has been arrested for allegedly holding a meeting with some civic organisations at his house where they planned the violence that rocked Gweru on Tuesday...Published: 17 Jan 2019 at 00:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Baba Harare ropes in 'ED-PFee' singer
Contemporary musician Braveman "Baba Harare" Chizvino has defended the inclusion of Zanu-PF loyalist musician Chief Hwenje Shumba of the ED-PFee fame on the list of supporting acts that will perform a...Published: 06 Jan 2019 at 10:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa camp close ranks
THE internal power struggles rocking the opposition MDC party led by Nelson Chamisa exploded at the weekend with the dissolution of two external structures of the party, NewsDay reported.A nat...Published: 17 Dec 2018 at 05:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Firefighters crash on way to attend accident
THREE Marondera Municipality firefighters were on Sunday night seriously injured after their fire tender veered off the road and rammed into a precast wall while on their way to attend to an incident....Published: 11 Sep 2018 at 13:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
4 youthful robbers arrested
Four suspected youthful robbers from Epworth, Harare, allegedly waylaid two men who were on their way home before stabbing them several times and robbing them of $60 cash.The quartet of Lincol...Published: 19 Mar 2018 at 06:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tuku, Winky D clash
Legendary musician Oliver Mtukudzi will today clash with Zimdancehall superstar Winky D at the Harare International Festival of the Arts at the Zol Main Stage starting 10pm.In a statement, Hif...Published: 05 May 2017 at 06:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tuku pays tribute to wife at His Dinner in London
Dr Oliver Mtukudzi paid tribute to his wife Daisy for standing by him for the last four decades of his music career, at a dinner held in his honour at the Waltham Abbey Marriott Hotel in London on Sat...Published: 29 Apr 2017 at 20:27hrs | | by Tidi Kwidini
Tuku to be honoured at a Dinner in London
LONDON - Zimbabwe's leading icon and legendary musician, Dr Oliver Mtukudzi will celebrate his 65th birthday in supreme style at an exclusive dinner party that will also honour his illustrious 40 year...Published: 29 Mar 2017 at 19:01hrs | | by Tidi Kwidini
Zimbabwe's social media revolt yet to take root in rural areas
Deep in Zimbabwe's drought-stricken rural district of Chiredzi, news of the biggest protests against President Robert Mugabe in a decade reached Peter Mufaro only after a week.The demonstratio...Published: 12 Aug 2016 at 16:38hrs | | by Cris Chinaka
Fresh headache for Tsvangirai over Chamisa, Mudzuri
OPPOSITION to MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai's decision to appoint Nelson Chamisa and Elias Mudzuri as vice-presidents continues to grow, with branches in the diaspora saying the move showed a lac...Published: 07 Aug 2016 at 11:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
The boy who fed Mbuya Nehanda
LET us from the onset warn you dear readers. The narration below, by Julian Maodza Murenga Mukomawashe, belongs to the spiritual world. Born on August 22 1960, in Mbire; Murenga is that muzukuru waMbu...Published: 29 May 2016 at 10:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man claim wife is a violent prostitute
A MUTARE man is seeking the court’s protection from his wife, whom he now calls a violent prostitute, claiming that he caught her red-handed on countless times having quality time with her lovers....Published: 15 Apr 2016 at 07:30hrs | | by Tendai Gukutikwa
Man roasts toddler in hot wheelbarrow to death
A Chivi man, Lordshire Samanyanga, tortured his 10-months-old twin babies by placing them in a wheelbarrow with a hot surface resulting in one of them suffering fatal burns.Samanyanga allegedl...Published: 13 Jul 2015 at 06:38hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mugabe trying to drag the rest of Africa down the path of lawlessness
them accomplices in his international crimes - means that the international community must take note that President Mugabe's continued riding roughshod on international institutions of peace has poten...Published: 29 Jun 2015 at 21:23hrs | | by Makusha Mugabe, Spokesman MDC-UK
Oliver Mtukudzi Peace for Africa Message
Over the last few days I have watched with horror on the news as xenophobic violence broke out in South Africa. African turns on African as we forget the long journey we have travelled together ag...Published: 18 Apr 2015 at 18:40hrs | | by Oliver Mtukudzi
Top London hotel announced as venue for Tuku tribute dinner
LONDON - Red carpet event specialists Black Tie Management have announced the four-star Thistle Marble Arch Hotel in central London as the venue for their much anticipated Tuku Tribute Dinner....Published: 04 Sep 2014 at 07:51hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Expelled MDC-T officials defiant
Four senior officials expelled from MDC-T - among them party deputy treasurer-general Mr Elton Mangoma - yesterday described their ejection on allegations of insubordination and violating the party's ...Published: 12 Apr 2014 at 05:51hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Eric Knight was not a member of MDC-T UK
MDC-T UK and Ireland has denied any links with Eric Knight, charging that the former ZBC radio and TV presenter was not involved with the Tsvangirai-led party in Britain.Tonderai Samanyanga sp...Published: 03 Nov 2013 at 05:27hrs | | by Agencies
Bulawayo artistes being sidelined
November is here and with it comes a number of developments on the entertainment scene that many music fans have been waiting for.Most musicians, starting this month, will be busy with shows. ...Published: 02 Nov 2013 at 07:22hrs | | by Courage Musariri Saturday Leisure Reporter
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