Reigning Miss World Zimbabwe Annie grace Mutambu touched down at the Harare International Airport on Monday after taking part in the Miss World competition held in Sanya, China.
Although she didn’t bring the crown home, her Beauty with A Purpose project was chosen among the top 10 out of 114 projects that were presented.
Annie Grace Mutambu
Her project focuses on assisting Albinos.
Another African country whose Beauty with A purpose project made it into the top 10 was Tanzania.
Annie Grace Mutambu (Right)
Meanwhile, Miss Spain was crowned the eventual Miss World winner, taking over from Rolene Strauss of South Africa.
Marverick businessman Wicknell Chivayo has penned a deal to sponsor the Zimbabwe Football Association with $1 000 000.
The news was confirmed by ZIFA president Dr Phillip Chiyangwa to Star FM sport this evening.
Sir Wicknell
Said Dr Chiyangwa: “At the time that I embarked on my campaign some AAG members (Affirmative Action Group) made some pledges, so one of them has come forward to fulfil it and that is Wicknell Chivhayo…”
Hip Hop and gospel musician Mudiwa was awarded the best-dressed male at the recently held Zim Hip Hop awards and the award has courted some controversy.
Some have said he was wearing too many colours and that the judges were not fair in their awarding him best dressed.
We hooked up with Mudiwa Hood to explain to us the reason behind the many colours.
Below is his explanation.
When one is dressing for an occasion there are key points that one has to consider:
1. Is is a black tie event
2. Is it a red carpet event
3. Is it an awards ceremony
4. Is it a meeting
5. Is it a dinner
That event was a red carpet event and a hip hop awards event.
One has to be dressed for the red carpet but maintain a hip hop taste.
Never look ordinary or dress simple at an awards night especially if you are a nominee to walk on stage, give it your best, take a risk, that’s fashion.
I hate it when I go to a place and find someone dressed exactly as I am…so I become more creative in my dressing at the same time maintaining class.
We also spoke to one of the Judges Lilian Madyara aka Hollywood Lee to tell us how they arrived at their decision.
Said Lilian,“Mudiwa Hood was the winner because he simply surpassed the rest in his look. It was stylish and Bold which is what Hip hop red carpet is.”
“On our criteria, we were looking for outstanding fashion risk takers who were not afraid to be bold and stylish, unlike the normally predictable award outfits. These two (Mudiwa and Queen Vee) surpassed the rest and dared to be different and that’s what Hip Hop red carpet is.”
This year the Zim Hip Hop Awards celebrated its 5th Anniversary with a well put together ceremony at the 1+1 club at Longchen Plaza.
Responsible for the stage management was The empire team, a Fashion House and Events Management company.
They have launched albums for such artists as Mudiwa,Passion Java Records, Courtney Antipas, Masofa Panze among others.
We spoke to one the team event managers Fungai Lee Chaks about their experience at the Zim Hip Hop Awards.
She was being assisted by Legarta Kamanda.
Below are the excerpts from the interview.
Zimbuzz: We just witnessed a splendid job of stage management and coordination at the ZHHA, how was the experience like for you and your team?
Fungai:thank you very much we are still overwhelmed by the positive feedback from different individuals and still grasping what happened that night…
We had an awesome experience filled with a bit of pressure as expected when doing an event of such a nature but we are very excited to see that whatever effort we had put in came out almost as planned.
Legarta Kamanda and Fungai Lee Chaks (in cap)
Zimbuzz: I understand some artist who arrived late for their performances didn’t get the chance to perform, just how important is the essence of time at such events?
Fungai:Yes we had to cancel some performances because when you are doing an event time management is essential as time lost can never be recovered and this was just going to cause distortion and destruction to the programme we had made.
We vowed to stick to all plans hence, we kickstarted the event at exactly 8 pm despite of the venue being not full at that time.
We only lost a bit of time during the freestyle Award but we were way ahead of our programme.
Zimbuzz: What can you say were the challenges you faced before and during the show, especially dealing with artists?
Fungai:We didn’t really face as many challenges since we had planned our stuff on time but we had challenges with getting people to get accredited on time of which most people only got accredited on the day.
And it still goes back to the issue of timing otherwise everything was in place and the artists we worked with this time were co-operative… Even when we had to make them stay backstage for close to 30mins before their slots on stage, we applaud all the artists on the night for a job well.
Zimbuzz: The venue being a club was a risky experiment, how did you manage to maintain order and making sure the programme runs smoothly?
Fungai: We had a strong team and our programme was on point to get the crowd fixated..we had ushers, security, stage management team, floor managers and co-ordinators..we had great teamwork and we made sure the programme had a smooth sail from the beginning to the end.
It was not all bliss for hip hop artist Briss Mbada who could not hide his disappointment at the just ended Zim Hip Hop Awards5th edition held at 1+1 Longchen Plaza in Harare.
The Harare Hucci hitmaker who was nominated for best Male Hip Hop award nearly brought business to a halt after he failed to land the award which was clinched by high-flying Cal-vin from Bulawayo after also scooping song of the year and best album award.
In a protest reminiscent of the 2014 edition’s PeeKay and former Big Brother housemate Hakim’s near violent onstage tiff over the later’s sentiments that Tehn Diamond was supposed to win the award instead of Pee Kay.
Security had a difficult time restraining the sleek looking Mbada who charged fearlessly towards the podium where Cal-vin appeared unmoved and business continued as usual as he delivered an emotional speech much to the applause of the cheerful audience.
The melee continued even after Briss Mbada was shoved out of the venue by bouncers with his entourage hurling insults at both the winner and the organisers.
Briss Mbada being restrained by security. Pic by Plot Mhako
After a few minutes, the furious artist left. He was seen back outside the venue when the awards ended, now bit calm.
Zimbuzz caught up with the Briss Mbada and this is what he had to say:
“I have the hottest album at the moment and I am the hip hop artist of the moment, I did what I did because I wasn’t ok with people whose music is not in the streets to be honoured with the best male,” he said.
“The way I reacted is the right way to have my concerns and grievances addressed. Right now my next move is to prove to people that I am the best artist in Africa.”
However, Cal-vin said he did not know who Briss Mbada was when the incident happened and had only seen his name for the first time on the nominees list.
The Luveve boy is riding high on the success of his single Z’Khupan which also features a remix which he did with SA’s Cassper Nyovest.
Cal_Vin delivers his speech after winning Best Male Artist. Pic by Plot Mhako
Such controversy is not synonymous with Zimbabwean awards only, remember In 2009 Kanye West jumped on stage to interrupt Taylor Swift’ MTV VMA award acceptance speech and suggested that Beyonce deserved the award.
Fast forward 2015 in Zimbabwe a similar incident took place at the Zim Hip Hop Awards.
Nonetheless, the occurrence did not kill the spirit of the awards and the organisers must be commended for setting high standards this year.
