Category: Mafirimu
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MOVIE REVIEW| Kagiso Lediga’s “Catching Feelings”
Click or not: MOVIE REVIEW| Kagiso Lediga’s “Catching Feelings”Catching Feelings is a South African romantic comedy, written, directed and led by Kagiso Lediga. The Netflix thinkpic brings together sex, race and literature as seen through the insecurities of its cruelly self-probing lead character Max Matshane. …
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MOVIE REVIEW| Boots Riley’s “Sorry to Bother You”
Click or not: MOVIE REVIEW| Boots Riley’s “Sorry to Bother You”MOVIE REVIEW| Boots Riley’s “Sorry to Bother You” Marxist Boots Riley left critical references to the U.S president out of his 2018 movie, Sorry to Bother You, so they do not feed the buzz at the expense of his less comfortable communist ideas. This lone-wolf angst is shared by Kendrick Lamar whose 2021 feature finds the… …
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INTERVIEW| TRACE TV co-founder Claude Grunitzky chases his next big idea
Click or not: INTERVIEW| TRACE TV co-founder Claude Grunitzky chases his next big ideaClaude Grunitzky documented the urban culture scenes of different regions with his early media venture, TRACE TV. As lockdown put new emphasis on decentralised work culture, the Togolese-American journalist and businessman rolled out his new idea, TRUE Africa University, to empower the young African entrepreneurs going it alone. He shares insights into his work in… …
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Jive TV Launch – Zimbabwe Replaces TV Monopoly with Sweetheart Licenses
Click or not: Jive TV Launch – Zimbabwe Replaces TV Monopoly with Sweetheart LicensesZimbabwe is making gestures to loosen the government chokehold on airwaves inherited from Rhodesia and maintained in the 42 years of independence. But broadcasting licenses have been selectively awarded to Zanu PF politicians, oligarchs, state enterprises and the army. New television stations are merely the latest horsemen of Zimbabwe’s airpocalypse. …
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OBITUARY| Cont Mhlanga Was Relentlessly Committed to Arts Development and Free Speech
Click or not: OBITUARY| Cont Mhlanga Was Relentlessly Committed to Arts Development and Free SpeechZimbabwean dramatist Continueloving “Cont” Mhlanga died in Bulawayo on Monday (1 August), aged 64. The highly regarded theatre director also made his mark as screenwriter, actor, arts manager and broadcaster. Banned and arrested by Robert Mugabe’s government, he was also fearlessly committed to free speech. …