GOSPEL musso, Jonah Chivasa is set to launch a six-track album, Jeso, on June 3 at The Venue in Avondale, Harare, amid high expectations that the offering will propel the artiste to dizzy heights. The album is more of a family affair as it features Chivasa’s uncles Matthias Mhere and ...

ONE way of putting off music lovers when you are a musician is failing to be innovative. When something keeps playing over and over again like an old vinyl record, the monotony can become unbearable. It appears like Mathias Mhere (pictured) was alive to this reality, when he came up ...

CHITUNGWIZA’s self-styled prophet Madzibaba Steven Mugariri caused a storm with residents yesterday after he demolished a public bus terminus shed located near his rented night club to create parking space for his patrons. Mugariri further angered the residents in Zengeza 2 when he described the bus terminus as a health ...

HONDE Valley-based rising gospel artiste Winnie Makoni has released her fourth album titled Nyasha DzaMwari that brings out one’s appreciation of God’s deeds. The 10-track album released recently shows Makoni’s true mission of winning souls to Christ with her melodious voice. The album was produced by talented producer Ollin Anderson ...

DESTINY of Africa Network (DAnet) says it has secured funding to roll out a car loan scheme for pastors and their wives, a move aimed at attracting votes for Zanu PF ahead of the watershed polls mid-year. DAnet founder and Zanu PF-aligned cleric, Obadiah Musindo, said his organisation was targeting ...

MEMBERS of the Full Gospel Assembly International (Fugai) were left stranded yesterday after Zanu PF elbowed them out of Chikangwe Community Hall they had booked for their church service. The church members had to look for an alternative venue after Zanu PF and police insisted that the venue was reserved ...

A gospel artiste, Dorcas Moyo, has dropped a 10-track album, titled Zvininipise, courtesy of Kunashe Studios in Mutare. This is her third effort after Ndokusheedzai Jesu (2008) and Ndinokutungamirira (2010).   Speaking about what inspired her to pursue gospel music, Moyo says: “I am a born-worshipper and I serve the ...

GOSPEL musician and former Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe employee Elias Musakwa has been implicated in a multimillion dollar foreign currency externalisation scam. The Ngaavongwe Records, former Gramma recording company, proprietor, on Monday appeared on President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s list of ‘looters’ who externalized foreign currency during former President Robert Mugabe’s era. According to the government list, Musakwa externalised $9 million to Portugal. Musakwa, who acquired Gramma Records together with the late former air marshal, Josiah Tungamirai, also owns Mosi­aTunya Studios, Shed Studios and the Zimbabwe Music Corporation. He is also a former RBZ official. President Mnangagwa, early this month, extended by two weeks a three month amnesty he last year in December gave to individuals and companies who externalised foreign currency. Issuing the list on Monday, President Mnangagwa said he had been left with no choice but to name, shame and cause the prosecution of those who did not respond to the amnesty, accusing them of having abandoned the “importance of good corporate governance and the legal obligations of citizenry”. The President said the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) was still open to process transactions where the concerned parties could show proof of declaration and/or repatriation of funds without prejudice given the burden of proof lying with the concerned parties. Musakwa joined active politics in 2007 after resigning from the RBZ where he was one of the top officials. He, on three occasions, failed to represent Bikita West constituency in parliament on a Zanu PF ticket.   ...

UNITED Family International Church leader Prophet Emmanuel Makandiwa is trying to rope Prophetic Healing and Deliverance Ministries founder Prophet Walter Magaya into a legal wrangle pitting the former with businessman Mr Upenyu Mashangwa Mr Mashangwa says he lost a house in Marlborough, Harare to a bank after Prophet Makandiwa allegedly ...

APOSTOLIC Faith Mission of Zimbabwe is on the verge of a split as the fight to control the mega church escalates to unprecedented levels where top officials are pushing counter-plots to ouster each other. The Sunday Mail Religion last week gathered details of how AFM president Dr Aspher Madziyire, church ...