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Young Sables beat Stubborn Ivory Coast

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Young Sables beat Stubborn Ivory Coast

Zimbabwe under 20 rugby team kept their promotion dreams alive after beating a stubborn Ivory Coast  26-10 at Prince Edward School in Harare in the first   Group semi-final of the Barthes cup.

The Young Sables will now play Madagascar in the group final pencilled for Saturday 20 April at the same venue. The winner will then be promoted into Barthes cup group A in 2020.

Zimbabwe had a sluggish start in their encounter against Ivory Coast and were punished dearly as early as the  3rd minute through a close-range penalty by fly-half Sirki Traore giving the visitors a 3-0 lead.

Young Sables first half performance was all over the place and was largely characterised by poor handling as they knocked on the ball at crucial times.

They also struggled at contact point as they failed to secure their own ball and the visitors managed to dominate in that aspect in the earlier exchanges.

Zimbabwe levelled the score courtesy of their Fullback Tinashe Hombiro, who slotted a home a penalty.

The scrappy affair continued and Ivory Coast managed to capitalise once more when scrumhalf Abbdou Aziz Konate gathered a loose ball, went under the sticks for the match first five-pointer. Traore added the extra two points easily.

Young Sables only managed to add three more points before half time through the boot of Hombiro as they went to the oranges trailing 10-06.

Zimbabwe emerged in the second period with more purpose and utility back Tabonga Ngonyamo started to show his class dictating proceedings with his dazzling runs and intelligent passing which started to create holes in the west Africans defence.

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Ngonyamo‘s industriousness was duly rewarded when he planted a try in the corner to give Zimbabwe the lead for the first time in the match 11-10 and was not converted.

Young Sables kept the scoreboard ticking as Hombiro scored his third penalty stretching the lead to 14-10. Ivory Coast never got going in the second period as they were pinned in their own half.

Zimbabwe eventually killed off the contest with two more tries by flank Kelvin Kanenhungo and wing Allan Mwande.

Young Sables Coach Farai Bob Mahari shared his sentiments after the match “it was a very nervy start but we managed to show character especially in the second half we found our feet and made adjustments. Our goal was to be in the final on Saturday and right now we are on track with this win.”

Our Perfect Wedding Zim Premieres On Zambezi Magic & Singer Adiona is Hosting it

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Our Perfect Wedding Zim Premieres On Zambezi Magic & Singer Adiona is Hosting it

One of the biggest television events to date in Zimbabwe takes place this month (April) with the launch of Our Perfect Wedding Zimbabwe, the first local version of this internationally-successful reality television series.

Liz Dziva, publicity and public relations manager of MultiChoice Zimbabwe, said the show would launch on Zambezi Magic(channel 162) at 9.30pm on Thursday, April 18, with Zimbabwe’s Independence Day a suitable platform for the initial episode of a series that will help take Zimbabwean television content to new heights.

Our Perfect Wedding is being produced by Zimbabwean production company Ngoda TV, which was commissioned by DStv’s Zambezi Magic channel to undertake the full series production, while the presenter is singer Adiona Chidzonga, a former Zimbabwean representative on M-Net’s Idols Africa show.

Production is well underway and is being worked around selected couples, who applied to be considered for inclusion when a call to action was made public earlier this year. The 13-episode season will end on July 11.

Said Ms Dziva: “Our Perfect Wedding is an original concept from South Africa’s Mzansi Magic channel, with Zambezi Magic having already undertaken a successful Zambian series before moving it into Zimbabwe. Kenya has also enjoyed its own version on DStv’s Maisha Magic East.

Each week during the 13-week run a Zimbabwean couple will be featured as they tick off their wish lists ahead of their marriage ceremonies, aiming at having the perfect wedding experience with the help of the programme organisers.

Zimbabwean viewers now wait to see which 13 couples will be featured, with all planning and execution of each of their weddings being focused on in the episodes in which they star.

The show focuses on a mix of content features and human emotions to bring the highs and lows of the planning and the final joy of the couples after they marry.

Ms Dziva said Zambezi Magic was created to offer Zimbabwean film-makers a platform for ever-increasing amounts of local content, and the Our Perfect Wedding Zimbabwe series will be the biggest local achievement on the channel to date, opening the door to even more local content in coming months and years.

“This is, without doubt, one of the most exciting Zimbabwean TV events to date and we have no doubt it will achieve huge success in Zimbabwe and in other territories in which Zambezi Magic is shown, such as Zambia,” said Ms Dziva.

“We are looking forward to showing viewers all the excitement and fun of weddings, and to see something of how our fellow Zimbabweans live and spend their lives, adding to the sheer Zimbabwean excitement of this show.”

Her enthusiasm was matched by that of Timothy Okwaro, M-Net’s director of East and Southern African channels, who said: “Across Africa, we love a good celebration and a wedding is a celebration of the best kind.

There’s nothing like watching a happy couple taking a walk down the aisle to pledge their love for one another in front of their loved ones. I’m particularly proud that this show will bring viewers across Southern Africa the Zimbabwean version of wedding celebrations. That’s how we, on Zambezi Magic, continue to tell our stories.”

 Viewers are encouraged to join the conversation on their social media platforms with #OPWZim and tagging @ZambeziMagic to share their thoughts with other viewers.

After the premiere of Our Perfect Wedding Zimbabwe on April 18, the series will run at 9.30pm each Thursday

Kirsty shows off baby bump, as she starts her Maternity leave

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Kirsty shows off baby bump, as she starts her Maternity leave

Minister Kirsty Coventry is enjoying every bit of her pregnancy as she is inching closer to being a first-time mom.

Coventry, 35, married Tyrone Seward in July 2013 is expecting a baby girl.

The Olympian who tweeted a bubbly pic of herself last night, also announced that she was now on maternity leave but will continue with her work.

The gold medalist and her husband are expecting the arrival of their first child in May.

Zee World Premieres First Original Production With An African Cast

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Zee World Premieres First Original Production With An African Cast

Zee Entertainment Africa has announced the exciting premiere of Mehek, the first Zee World production to star actors from the African continent. 

The landmark series, which was shot entirely in India, will premiere on Saturday, 6 April at 2100hrs on Zee World and introduces African actors Shonisani Masutha, Kamogelo Mogale, Ndaba ka Ngwane and NomavaKibare to Zee World viewers across Sub Sahara Africa.

“Mehek represents an important and evolutionary part of Zee World’s commitment to providing relevant, exciting and innovative content to its viewers.

Zee is proud of this production and of our African actors; furthermore, it will undoubtedly set a strong foundation for similar productions in the future,” says Harish Goyal, CEO, Zee Entertainment Africa and Asia Pacific.

“The decision to develop a Bollywood production with African actors stemmed from Zee World’s unequivocal success in Africa and the love showered by our audiences for the channel. 

Zee World has enjoyed tremendous growth throughout the years and Mehek was the obvious next step” says Ratna Siriah, Business Head, Zee Entertainment Africa.

“The Multichoice group understands the importance of local content to our subscriber.  As Africa’s leading content producer and most loved storyteller, we are delighted that our channel partners such as Zee share this in this vision and investing in showcasing local talent in new innovative ways.”, added Aletta Alberts, Executive Head of Content Strategy for MultiChoice.

Africa meets India

Mehek is the eponymous story of a young girl from Delhi, India whose love for cooking is closely tied to her mother’s memories and Shaurya (Karan Vohra), a rich and arrogant, restaurateur. 

Their paths cross leading to an unlikely relationship but all is not what it seems.

Meanwhile, Eddie Gabela (Ndaba ka Ngwane), a successful businessman from Africa moves to Delhi with his wife Leleti (NomavaKibare), daughter Norah (Shonisani Masutha) and son Dennis (Kamogelo Mogale).

Dennis has been implicated in a serious crime and whilst the family knows he’s innocent they are helpless to save him from these false accusations and decide to leave Africa for his safety.

Norah’s love life however takes an interesting turn when she meets and falls in love with Karan in India.

Their relationship is a colourful imbalance of love and betrayal as the couple forges a life together in India.

Follow the story of this ground-breaking Africa meets India story line and experiences of Norah and Karan from vastly different backgrounds brought together by love.

Zee World Unveils its line-up Of Programs for 2019

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Zee World Unveils its line-up Of Programs for 2019

Zee World, the world’s 1st Bollywood English dubbed channel in Africa, has unveiled its line-up of programs for the year to keep viewers even more glued to their television screens.

Speaking at a content upfront in Harare, Harish Goyal, CEO, ZEE Africa & Asia Pacific, said: “We are really excited about the wide acceptance and appreciation of our programmes here in Zimbabwe and we are constantly improving our content to keep our viewers happy with new programmes from the best of Bollywood.”

This year, Zee World have announced the exciting premier of Mehek, the first Zee World production to star actors from the African continent. 

The landmark series, which features local African stars along with the Indian cast, premiered on 6 April introduces African actors Shonisani Masutha who plays Nora, Kamogelo Mogale as Dennis,

Ndaba ka Ngwane in the role of Eddie Gabela and Nomava Kibare who plays the mother Leleti to Zee World viewers across the Sub Sahara continent.

“Mehek represents an important and evolutionary part of Zee World’s commitment to providing relevant, exciting and innovative content to its viewers.

Harish Goyal CEO, ZEE Africa & Asia Pacific

Zee is proud of this production and of our African actors; furthermore, it will undoubtedly set a strong foundation for similar productions in the future,” says Harish Goyal, CEO, Zee Africa & Asia Pacific.

“The decision to develop a Bollywood production with African actors stemmed from Zee World’s unequivocal success in Africa and the love showered by our audiences for the channel. 

Zee World has enjoyed tremendous growth throughout the years and Mehek was the obvious next step” says Ratna Siriah, Business Head, Zee Africa.

Like theever-popular Twist of Fate, its spin-off series This is Fate is also gaining fans from the long separated Arora sisters, Shriti and Preeta.

ZEE World is available on DStv Channel 166.

Prince Edward Tigers off to St Stithians Festival

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Prince Edward Tigers off to St Stithians Festival

Prince Edward School Tigers are on the road this week as they will take part in the St Stithians Easter rugby festival in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Its set to be a grilling festival for the traditional rugby powerhouse as they got 3 tough games on their fixture list.

PE’s first encounter at the festival is against the host on the 18th of April which is poised to be an epic clash.

The last time these two schools played against each other was in 1999, Cape Town at the Bishops 150th Jubilee Rugby festival. Tigers came out top beating St Stithians 31-12.

The Tigers will be hoping they can repeat the heroics of the class of 1999 while their opponents will be on a revenge mission.

St Stithians have 7 Zimbabwean born players in their squad and play an expensive brand of rugby, their star player is fullback Munashe Chitezvi who likes to join the line a lot in attack.

Chitezvi has fancy footwork and has a habit of breaking tackles, he is one player PE would have to contain if they are to come out with a result in this match.

The Tigers second match is pencilled for Saturday 20 April against another strong outfit Park Town boys who have not had the best of 2019 so far and have been on the receiving end.

It has the potential to be a tightly contested match.

PE finishes off their tour with a clash against South African College Schools (SACS) who are a familiar opponent as they last played in 2018 in Harare and the Tigers lost the match 37-22

Producer DJ Tamuka congratulates himself for not winning a NAMA

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Producer DJ Tamuka congratulates himself for not winning a NAMA

Music producers are NAMAs’ unsung heroes behind the scenes of many hit songs and DJ Tamuka has decided to congratulate himself for a great year.

Although they has been growing calls to recognise the men and women who actually make a song sound like a ‘song’, NAMA are yet to consider their hard work.

DJ Tamuka was responsible for the productions of Music Video of the Year song Dzamutsana,ExQ’s Outstanding Album Tseu Tseu and Outstanding Song Kanjiva by Enzo Ishall.

Under the hashtag #NamaWontDoIt the Gweru bred producer took to Instagram on Sunday and posted a self-congratulatory message.

Watch the chilling message to NAMA below

Derby Delight for Old Georgians

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Derby Delight for Old Georgians

Old Georgians retained to the top of the summit of the super six league after beating Harare sports club 21-16 in a fiercely contested derby at the Machinery Exchange rugby ground.

Harare sports club dominated the early exchanges grabbing two unconverted tries by Lucky Sithole and Prince Ncube.

OGs reduced the deficit through a try by fullback David  Woolls but fly-half Jerry Jaravazi failed to add the extras pushing his kick wide.

Woolls proved to be thorn in the flesh of HSC  defence , whenever  ever he had the ball he  would  gain vital  territory with his dazzling runs.

Sports club extended their lead 13-05 through a close range penalty by Tadius Whata. The Groombridge based side managed to claw back into the match through the boot of Jaravazi slotting home two penalties levelling the scores 13-13.

OGs finished the half stronger when hooker David Makamba budged over the white wash for their third try of the match and was not converted once more  and went to the shed leading  18-13.

HSC denominated the second stanza both territory and possession as they spent it most was deep in the OGs  22 meter line.

They turned out to be their own worst enemy as they failed to utilize several overlaps which would have got them over the line.

HSC only managed to score 3 points courtesy of Whata penalty while  Old Georgians released some pressure with a close-range penalty which Jaravazi managed to put it in between the two sticks.

OGs hang on for a famous victory and inflicting revenge as they lost 3 times last year to Old Georgians.

Chevrons Clinch series!

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Chevrons Clinch series!

Zimbabwe Chevrons dismantled a hapless United Arab Emirates by 130 runs in the 3rd One Day International sealing the series in the process with one match to spare.

UAE won the toss and chose to field, they started well getting rid of inform Zimbabwe opening batsman Regis Chikabva just for 1 run in the second over, leaving the host stranded 2/1.

Solomon Mire and Craig Ervine managed to stabilize the ship with a great second wicket partnership of 104 runs.

Once again Mire failed to turn his good start into a huge total, giving away his wicket just for 40 runs.

Sean Williams was the pick of the batsman as he scored 109 runs of 89 balls. It was Williams 3rd ODI century and was duly awarded man of the match for his fine knock with the bat.

Sean Williams Picture/twitter/ZimCricketv

Craig Ervine was the scored highest scorer with 64 runs and the skipper PJ Moore carried his bat again scoring 58 runs as he made sure Zimbabwe finished their allotted 50 overs with a competitive score of 307-4.

Zimbabwe bowling attack functioned as a unit as everyone contributed by taking wickets.

Ryan Burl equalled his career-best taking 4-32. Sikander Raza and Kyle Jarvis took 2 wickets apiece. While seamers  Chris Mpofu and Donald Tiripano only managed one wicket each.

In the UAE side, only CP Rizwan and Muhammad Usman managed to contribute meaningful runs scoring  47 and 49 runs respectively as the other batsman around them crumbled.

Don’t Confuse Me – Baba Harare responds to NAMA Fashion Police

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Don’t Confuse Me – Baba Harare responds to NAMA Fashion Police

2018 Break out Kid Baba Harare has responded to the fashion police netizens who trolled him for a NAMA wardrobe malfunction.

The singer arrived on the #NAMA18 red carpet wearing a replica basketball jersey of the Chicago Bulls Legend Michael Jordan with a pair of denim jeans.

Watchers were left sceptical about just how accidental/intentional his red carpet mishap was, given his prior form in this area when he rocked the Star FM Awards in a designer suit early February.

However Baba Harare is having none of it as he has lambasted the watcher and ordered them to stop confusing him.

Taking to Instagram he wrote, “There is order in my disorderliness, any efforts to change that will confuse me.”

Check out his post below

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