The year 2013 was a defining time for gospel music in the City of Kings as fans have shown maturity by supporting local artistes. Many groups have sprouted adding to the already existing ones, although gospel artistes from other cities have continued to gather massive crowds. Groups such as Family ...

Zimbabwe is set to hold a mbira festival later this year courtesy of Mbira Centre.  This was revealed by Mbira Centre director Albert Chimedza during a tour of the facility by Secretary for Information, Media and Broadcasting Services, George Charamba on Tuesday. Chimedza said that he hopes to bring together ...

Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa’s dig at United Families International Church founder Emmanuel Makandiwa has torched a storm with some people accusing the minister of seeking to divert the nation’s attention from his failure to turnaround the economy. The storm follows Chinamasa’s remarks during the Mandel/Gordon Institute of Business Science 2014 ...

Celebrity prophet Emmanuel Makandiwa’s United Family International (UFI) Church in Bulawayo is in trouble after the Messenger of Court seized some of its property over an undisclosed debt. In the event that the church fails to pay its dues today, the seized property is likely to go under the hammer ...

The trial of eight women linked to Independent End Time Message founder, Robert Martin Gumbura, kicked off at the Harare Magistrates Court yesterday. The eight face allegations of contravening the Censorship and Entertainment Control Act after they were allegedly caught in possession of pornographic materials. The trial was held before Magistrate ...

Ashdown Park residents on Monday threatened to stop the construction of a 200 000 seater church which is being constructed by a local Christian denomination Heartfelt International ministries saying congregates were disturbing peace in the area through the use of modern technologies while they were asleep. Followers of the Heartfelt ...

United Family International Church (UFIC) founder, Emmanuel Makandiwa is “waiting for a few instructions from God” to begin raising people from the dead, one of his top aides claimed Sunday. “In fact he (Makandiwa) said he is waiting for instructions from God to do it publicly as he has done ...

Gospel music group Masimba Edenga will launch their ninth album titled “Upenyu Hwedu” at Harare Gardens on Sunday. The launch of the 12-track album will coincide with the closing ceremony of the United Methodist Church’s 10 day gathering which will be graced by members of the church’s Harare district who will ...

A Kwekwe-based teacher has released a seven-track jazz inspired gospel album titled “Seasons”. Bruce Moyo, a primary-school teacher from Mbizo, says he was inspired to venture into music by popular jazz maestro and former headmaster Bob Nyabinde.Popularly known as “The Headmaster”, Nyabinde started singing when he was a primary school ...

Gospel musician Mathias Mhere has roped in the services of hilarious comedian Sabhuku Vharazipi for his forthcoming DVD, Nguva Yenyasha. Real name David Mubaiwa, Sabhuku Vharazipi will feature on the video of the song Ziya Rangu off the musician’s latest album. The musician said the venture was a gesture of ...