Locally produced and psychological thriller movie, ‘Mind Games’ will next Thursday launch at the Eastgate Ster-Kinekor Cinemas.
Starring Dax Jackson and Kevin Hanssen, the film won Best Film and Best Actor at ZIFFT 2017 before it went on to win Best narrative feature at the new york based Calcutta International Cult Film Festival,
It also won Best Editing at The Five Continents International Film Festival in Columbia. It was also a Finalist at Stars Hollywood Film Festival.
Mind Games the movie is an adaptation of the 2011 short film of the same title, which scooped the Outstanding Production Award at Nama 2011 and Netone’s Most promising Director award at ZIFF 2010.
MOVIE SYNOPSIS
Some of the scenes from the film
Sam’s guilt over the death of his son has led him on a dark secret life which has destroyed his relationship with his family and led to divorce.
However, when he goes to work, he becomes a victim of a genius psychopath known as Ex, who takes Sam through a series of tests that inadvertently forces Sam to revisits his dark secrets and resolve his personal demons.
When it turns out that Ex, was merely a hired gun in a plot to rob Sam of his inheritance, Sam must use his newfound focus to save his kidnapped daughter and possibly reunite his broken marriage.
Set in modern day Zimbabwe, Mind Games is a psychological thriller that unravels the complexities of human thought and emotion.
The film takes your mind on an exciting journey filled with action, suspense and yes, the unexpected twists.
It screens May 31, 2018, at 5:15 pm. Tickets will be going for $5 Regular, $10VIP and $15VVIP.
The Rotaract Club of Borrowdale Brooke will this Saturday 26 May host another pop bottles annual event to raise funds for charity.
The event will take place at 7 Honey Bear Lane in Greystone Park from 12 midday.
All proceeds go towards community development of health and education in the Hatcliffe area in Harare.
The Rotaract Club of Borrowdale Brooke is well known for their work in the Hatcliff community including their annual spelling bee that provides scholarships for students, the cleanup drive and the cancer run event they held last year.
This year will be their second instalment of the pop bottles party and it promises to be bigger and better!
“The previous Pop bottles was extremely well supported. The community really came out in high numbers. Over 300 people attended and we managed to raise over $3500 to help the community,” said Temwani Kaunda a member of the Rotaract Club of Borrowdale Brooke.
“This year is only going to be better and we’re looking forward to a great turn out and support from the community.”
Rotaract is a global network of over 184,000 young people aged between 18 and 30 who are dedicated to the community and international service. Alongside the high-impact service projects, Rotaract offers opportunities for personal and professional development.
Admission to the party is $5 pre-registration entry on www.webtickets.co.zw and cooler boxes allowed for a small corkage.
You can expect Cash bar, Shisha, Games, Food stalls, Heavy DJs on rotation, UEFA Champions League final screening and amazing people.
We’re a little bit obsessed with the lively Donna N Ncube. We will do all we can to be her best friend because she has all the things going on, she is gorgeous and has a glamorous job.
So today we are crushing on this Skyz Metro FM presenter from KwaBulawayo.
For someone who doesn’t know you, who is Donna Ncube?
Donna Ncube mostly known as Donna N is a free-spirited creative who loves telling stories through art. The hats that I wear are namely a journalist, actress, musician, TV and Radio presenter as well as a live events host. Bulawayo born and bred ambitious young lady. Tag : Donna N intombazana yakoNcube, indodakazi yeNkosi yamakhosi.
Whats the name of your show and what time is it on air.
I host The Inspirator weekdays from 5 am – 6 am and I co-host The VukaVuka Breakfast Show with Babongile Skhonjwa and Master Eli Weekdays 6 am – 10am.
When did you know deejaying is something you wanted to pursue? How long have you been a DJ?
I had never thought of myself as a radio DJ, when the opportunity came I took it and I fell in love instantly.
I had been used to hosting live events having to create a rapport with an audience you might totally not know with someone scanning you on what you are wearing and how you talk and so on but with radio, on the other hand, I have had sessions whereby I will be wearing my pyjamas and no one cares or rather knows lol but you are in a relationship with awesome people that want to listen to you even though they can’t see your face. Definitely got to love that.
Name two highlights of your career as a DJ so far.
Wow, it’s hard to just choose two … I guess interviewing and talking to amazing local, regional and international personalities …. the list is long …
And the awesome brand ambassador deals that have come along.
How do you feel when you’re DJing?
It’s a different feeling everyday one I can’t fully put down in words. Radio is live and there is that element of surprise every day and of course, the tagline for The VukaVuka Breakfast Show is The bravest and craziest breakfast show so it’s very brave and crazy worse off my co-hosts embody that very well. I laugh a lot which is what everyone needs as they start their day.
What have you learnt since you started out as a DJ?
1) To value every moment on air because it might be life-changing to someone or what someone has been looking for.
2) Hiding skills when I am in public lol
3) Radio is powerful beyond imagination.
4) And that I have to answer to what I have once said on air when I meet people … It’s special.
What is the reception from listeners in Bulawayo and those that stream globally, do you think as a regional station you are competing well with national stations.
Donna N Ncube
The reception is humongous, from both local and global listeners, it’s beyond awesome to have listeners that own the radio station (shout out to the TP crew).
Personally, I am not a fan of the word competition, I would rather say serving a market faithfully and successfully and I believe as SkyzMetro FM we are doing our best in that.
We put our listeners first (as the station tag says Esabantu, the people’s radio station) over focusing at who hasn’t done what, when and why of which I trust that’s the best way to run your race.
Stick to what we promised when we started and thrive to improve and make it better. So as Skyz Metro FM, we are doing great in serving our region, country and global sphere. ?
What music have you listened to today and how do you prepare for your set?
Before radio I listen to Tasha Cobbs – You know my name and Wenzile by Joyous Celebration and Women of Valour, of yet these are my boosters.
To prepare for my set, I run up the stairs it would be early in the morning so I need that extra wake me up feeling. At times I dance, it works wonders and of course reading a lot.
Who is your celebrity crush? My person …. he is tooo much His name is pumpkin.?
Are you single? No, I am not
What made you pick the dress you last wore to your show?
Jeans, boots and a leather jacket tjoooooo bekugodola like too much.
On what do you spend the most: clothes, accessories, perfumes, underwear, or anything else?
Contrary to popular belief I spend the most on future investments.
What do you do when not working? When I am not on radio, I’m either filming, doing music or watching movies… lots of them
Dance enthusiasts will battle it out in an online dance competition launched this week by leading paints manufacturer Nash Paints.
Generally, Zimbabweans love to dance, perhaps it’s our therapeutic response to life or we just good at it, whatever the case is, you could actually walk away with a $1000 cash prize.
The competition is dubbed ‘Tisu Taipenda Dance Off 2018’ and its an offshoot of inspiration from Jah Prayzah’s Nash Paints advert.
Here is how you can be part of it:
Dubbed the hashtag Tisu Taipenda Dance Off 2018; all you have to do is record a 30-second video of yourself alone or with loved ones dancing to the Tisu Taipenda Jingle by Jah Prayzer.
Share this post on your timeline and then share your dance video as well. Make sure you tag Nash Paints on both the posts so they can follow through and count the numbers.
Winner with the most likes on their Dance video who also has shared this post will walk away with $1 000.
Nash Paints will also give $100 each to 10 more people who have shared this post (Link to post) and posted their dance video on their timelines to get a significant number of likes.
There you have it get dancing and hashtagging and you could be a winner and you can also win a hundred dollars just by sharing a video.
Watch below the Ndini Ndaipenda jingle for some inspiration
Zimbabwe’s top Urban Pop artists have joined hands to stage a benefit concert that will seek to raise stationary for school going kids.
The show will be title Nhaka Yehupenyu and will happen Saturday 2nd June 2018 at the Long Chen Plaza from 9am-6pm
One of the organisers, rapper and music executive Leonard Mapfumo said the concert was born out of the realisation that many students were struggling to acquire sufficient stationary.
“Government social welfare programmes can only do so much to accommodate the increasing number of children requiring financial assistance to continue their education,” he said.
“Many children struggle to purchase basic educational requirements, such as books, notepads required for them in their education.”
Leonard Mapfumo also said that most of the participating artists were from the high density and have seen first hand the challenges in that community.
Trevor Dongo
“Many of today’s Zimbabwean artists are from high-density suburbs and have seen for themselves the challenges these communities experience in trying to educate their children.
“As artists, we can reach out and help our communities in maintaining the academia of our children,” said Mapfumo.
The artists in the performing and music industry will come together for a unique fundraiser, not to collect monetary donations, but to ask for contributions in the form of stationary, pens, notepads, paper, books, calculators, anything that a child may require at school as a form of donation.
Cindy Munyavi
The aim is to help at least 200 children who urgently require these donations. The admission fee is a donation in the form of school equipment.
The following artists and groups have confirmed their participation in this event: Snipper, Leonard Mapfumo, Sani Makhalima, ExQ, Roki, Shinsoman, Good child, Cindy, Extra-large, DJ Mbale, Madiz, Nesto.
Tunga Tee, DJ Dscord, Mfriq, Trevor Dongo Ngoni Kambarami, Nyasha David, Scepter, Kuma fitness,Pauline.
Mapfumo said the goal is to make this an annual program, an annual music festival for the communities to enable a brighter future for the children of Zimbabwe.
Prince Harry’s on and off ex-girlfriend Zimbabwean Chelsy Davy on Saturday attended the Royal wedding held in Windsor, England.
Chesly walked into the Chapel side by side with another of Prince Harry’s ex-girlfriend Cressida Bonas
Davy wore a monochromatic navy ensemble with a feathered fascinator and a navy cape like cardigan on top, while Bonas wore a pink and green striped dress from British designer Eponine London with a feathered fascinator.
The Zimbabwean Davy, aged 32, was Prince Harry’s first love-interest.
The couple dated off and on for seven years from the time when they first met in 2004 during Harry’s gap year in Zimbabwe, till when she was a guest at Prince William and Kate Middleton’s wedding in 2011.
Chelsy Davy all smiles as she arrives at the Wedding Picture/Bustle
The former Suits starlet, Meghan Markle, now Harry’s wife, was apparently “fine” with the idea of two of Harry’s ex-girlfriends attending their wedding.
Both Davy and Harry consider each other to be good friends. Davy even told The Sunday Times that the two would continue to keep their friendship intact.
Another of Prince Harry’s exes Cressida Bonas arriving for the wedding. Picture/USA Today
Harry’s relationships with Bonas and Davy ended owing to the unwanted public attention they received, with neither of Harry’s ex-girlfriends enjoying the extra spotlight.
Davy reportedly admitted that she found it difficult to cope with the public attention she received whilst with Harry, highlighting that “it’s not something you get used to”.
Actor and model Bonas and Prince Harry dated for two years after the latter’s break up with Davy.
In Zimbabwe and across the borders John Cole is regarded as music’s best mover and groover, he can dance to anything with sound, in all genres.
But music’s most rhythmic dancer has decided that its time he made his own music and dance to it.
John surprised us earlier last week when he launched his first single Skoro Skoro featuring Bulawayo songstress Lee McHoney.
Rolling Stone once said that Rock, hip-hop, R&B and pop all evolved out of music designed for dancing, and so it should come as no surprise that many of the greatest musicians of all time happen to be world class dancers.
For a man who has danced and choreographed for some of the top musicians in the country, from Cynthia Mare, Cindy, Ammara Brown etc..John Cole looks set to bring an exciting dimension to the industry.
Skoro Skoro was produced by Chiweddar and had its official launch last Thursday at the Red Cafe in Harare.
The song has it’s melodious lyrics laced mainly on a mbira instrument in a house genre, something which makes it unique and quick to vibe to.
It’s definitely your club banger, a house party starter…Don’t believe us check it for yourself.
Once upon a time, a young rapper named Desmond ‘Stunner‘ Chideme released his career-defining hit and epoch-defining anthem entitled Team Hombe, with aid from collaborator named Tobbie.
Fast-dispatch to 2018, the rapper, now established and has since transitioned into more of a professional celebrity than a hip-hop Hitmaker, has harked back to, feasibly, the most unforgettable part of his career by dropping a remix of the highly vaunted song.
Louder then and hovered to be even bigger now, Stunner this time drafted fellow loudmouths, perhaps the brashest, Seh Calaz, Lipsy, Noble Stylz, Souljah Luv, Gze, Cal Vin, Jnr Brown, Freeman and Andy Muridzo , practically daring them to stick to the concept but turning the volume way up.
For one, the remix is an inspired one, and it sounds crispy fresh even if the bends are still 2008-2009-ish. It’s bars after bars and toast after toast right to the edge.
Noble Styles, acknowledged for his notorious wordplays brings in that badinage rap that will make you view hip-hop as a fun game.
Seh Calaz, Souljah Love and Freeman, although fairly new to the sound, sounded particularly at home on the track, exuding knacks we never imagined they have.
It is even-tempered that the three always have some kind of rap flavour in their music but we’d never hear them spit or sing on anything remotely like the Team Hombe beat before and evidently enjoyed it.
And yet the guests who probably picked up the most from the experience were Lipsy, whose cadence we could not save but admire to slivers, and Andy Muridzo whose vocals blended in infectiously.
As for the MC’s Cal Vin, Jnr Brown, Gze and Stunner, a chance to rap together was doubtlessly a repast for them.
They all brim with a prodigious volume of confidence, dredging up a couple features that were able to inject new life into his huge hit.
One guy on the track with no frets, however, is Jnr Brown, who displays his characteristically navigating double-time-punchy flow on the remix’s climactic last verse, at ones scolding, ‘Haitambe nemaGeez anemaunderwear epondo’.
Wrapping the strip around the shore, the remix is pretty impressive and it kind of bring us back to that late 2000 swag era of hip-hop.
Sometimes a remix can arrive so late in a hit’s lifespan but what the Tazzoita Records has shown us is that it merely takes throwing a solid inventory of carefully handpicked stars on an erstwhile beat to reinvigorate it.
Another thing, posse cuts are a lofty tradition in hip-hop and the greatest of them bear to reside longer.
This could be one of them and we can not stick around for an accompanying video.
Backed by her super-power musical brand, rapper Tiara Baluti has opened up a whole new world with the launch of her own clothing line.
Celebrities today can do whatever they want, which is why so many of them have branched out from just one form of art to explore the business world.
“I’m an artist, designer, modeland philanthropist and when I first came out I was known for dancing but there’s so much more to me than what you read about in the media,” said the rapper as she showed us some of her designs.
She has also enrolled for a fashion course so as to enhance her knowledge of the industry.
“Right now I’m currently studying fashion and I have a label the Beautiful Mess collection I mainly make clothes for females of all shapes and sizes,” she told Zimbuzz.
Apart from music and now fashion Tiara also runs a charitable foundation Raviro Foundationwhich she named after her late mother, the organisation helps children in homeless shelters.
“I love the synergy between music and fashion and I want all aspects to be known because I have been putting so much time and energy in it and the world needs to see it,” added Tiara.
Ajax Cape Town have been relegated from the Premiership after being docked points for fielding ineligible player Tendai Ndoro, the SA Football Association announced on Tuesday.
Arbitrator William Mokhari delivered his verdict on the Ajax Cape Town/Ndoro matter which found Ajax Cape Town guilty and docked points in matches against Platinum Stars, Polokwane City and SuperSport United.
Ajax had finished 15th on the Premiership log, ahead of Platinum Stars who finished bottom and were sentenced to automatic relegation.
The judgement, however, means Ajax are now automatically relegated to the National First Division and Stars will now take the place of the Cape side in the Premiership promotion/relegation play-offs scheduled to start on Wednesday.
Ajax had been scheduled to play Black Leopards on Wednesday in the first promotion/relegation match, and the revised fixtures have yet to be announced.
Tendai Ndoro Picture/Chris Ricco/BackpagePix
Ndoro was in breach of the Fifa rule which states a player may not appear for more than two clubs in a season.
The Zimbabwean striker played one game for Orlando Pirates in August, before signing and playing for Saudi Arabian side Al Faisaly.
Signing for Ajax in December, Ndoro played seven games for the Cape side.
Ajax, though, can still appeal the ruling with the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).
The club is now in the process of preparing papers to be filed urgently before the High Court in Johannesburg for the matter to be heard on Wednesday.
Amongst other issues, Ajax will seek to interdict the promotion playoffs from commencing on Wednesday 16th May at 3pm.
