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The Self-Taught Filmmaker Playing Mr. 9 in Netflix's One Piece

18 September 2026

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The City That Named Zimbabwe: Why Every Zimbabwean Should See Great Zimbabwe Once

The City That Named Zimbabwe: Why Every Zimbabwean Should See Great Zimbabwe Once

Domestic visits to Great Zimbabwe jumped 26 percent last year, but most Zimbabweans still haven't seen the stone city that gave the country its name. Here's what's there and how to get to it.

20 September 2026
Hip Hop With a Live Band: Shoko's 16th Edition Makes a Point

Hip Hop With a Live Band: Shoko's 16th Edition Makes a Point

Shoko Festival returns from 24 to 26 September under the theme Unmuted, and its Mash Up Night is putting a full live band behind rappers who usually perform over backing tracks.

18 September 2026
Operation Chenesa: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Harare's Vendor Crackdown

Operation Chenesa: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Harare's Vendor Crackdown

Harare's latest vending crackdown has already partially reversed itself, so here's what Kigali and Durban got right, why the same fight is playing out in New York and Barcelona, and what the mayor, the minister and the vendors' own union are actually saying about it.

18 September 2026

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A Zimbabwean Wrote a WHO Campaign Song, and Geneva Noticed

A Zimbabwean Wrote a WHO Campaign Song, and Geneva Noticed

Afro-fusion musician Dereck Mpofu presented WHO's 2026 Hepatitis and STI campaign song to Director-General Tedros in Geneva, his latest health-advocacy work.

6 September 2026
Mary Anibal Is Taking Mbira to Johannesburg

Mary Anibal Is Taking Mbira to Johannesburg

Zimbabwean mbira artist Mary Anibal will perform at ACCES 2026 in Johannesburg this October, her first time playing South Africa with a full band.

6 September 2026
Elsa Majimbo Went Viral in Lockdown, Here's Where She Is Now

Elsa Majimbo Went Viral in Lockdown, Here's Where She Is Now

Elsa Majimbo went from lockdown comedy videos to Valentino campaigns, a Forbes Africa 30 Under 30 nod, and is now pivoting toward filmmaking in Hollywood.

6 September 2026
The Zimbabwean Bringing Marimba to the Dance Floor

The Zimbabwean Bringing Marimba to the Dance Floor

Kudzai Muwori, known as WOWRAE, has spent 16 years fusing Zimbabwean marimba with AfroHouse and AfroTech, from school hobby to festival stages.

6 September 2026

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Hosted by our co-founder Elliot Twist alongside Aura Kawanzaruwa, My 2 Cents sits down with Zimbabwean musicians, authors, comedians and entertainment personalities for candid conversation on the culture, the industry and the moment.

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Warriors Kick Off the Road to AFCON 2027, and the Excitement Is Building

Warriors Kick Off the Road to AFCON 2027, and the Excitement Is Building

Zimbabwe opens 2027 AFCON qualifying against Sierra Leone this month, drawn in Group E alongside DR Congo, under new coach Ramon Catala.

9 September 2026
Masvingo Gets Scheduled Flights for the First Time in Years

Masvingo Gets Scheduled Flights for the First Time in Years

Air Zimbabwe launched Harare-Masvingo and Victoria Falls-Masvingo routes this week, giving Zimbabwe's oldest city air access it hasn't had in years.

6 September 2026
The World Bank Just Told Zimbabwe to Slow Down on Ditching the US Dollar

The World Bank Just Told Zimbabwe to Slow Down on Ditching the US Dollar

The World Bank warned Zimbabwe's 2030 plan to make the ZiG its only currency could trigger capital flight if rushed. Here's what it means for you.

6 September 2026
$200,000, No Equity, Ten Startups: Askya's Offer Lands in a Brutal Year for African Founders

$200,000, No Equity, Ten Startups: Askya's Offer Lands in a Brutal Year for African Founders

A new pan-African programme is offering ten AI startups six weeks of support and up to $200,000 without taking a share of the company, and it arrives in a year when fewer founders on the continent are raising money than at any point since 2021.

17 September 2026
The Intern Accused of Hacking CABS Out of US$1.1 Million

The Intern Accused of Hacking CABS Out of US$1.1 Million

A final-year MSU Computer Science student has been denied bail over an alleged US$1.1 million cyberheist at CABS, built on access he says never should have outlived his internship.

14 September 2026
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra Just Landed, and It Comes With a Warning Label

OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra Just Landed, and It Comes With a Warning Label

OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra is its most capable model yet, and the first to cross a critical cybersecurity threshold. Here's why that matters either way.

6 September 2026

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The Self-Taught Filmmaker Playing Mr. 9 in Netflix's One Piece

The Self-Taught Filmmaker Playing Mr. 9 in Netflix's One Piece

Daniel Lasker started making films because there was no industry to join, won festival awards for a Ndebele language sci-fi short, and now plays a Baroque Works agent in one of Netflix's biggest live action series.

18 September 2026
Mhare Just Landed on GlobalComix, Nearly a Decade After Its First Page

Mhare Just Landed on GlobalComix, Nearly a Decade After Its First Page

Zimbabwe's first superhero team comic, created by Harare artist Tino Makoni, has finally moved off convention-table sales onto a major digital platform alongside Marvel and DC.

17 September 2026
Body Count Is a Masterclass in Just How Far Zimbabwean Animation Has Come

Body Count Is a Masterclass in Just How Far Zimbabwean Animation Has Come

Harare studio Lightbulbs & Lazers Animation's new drama series Body Count tackles masculinity, faith and stigma with a visual polish that shows how far the medium has grown in Zimbabwe.

9 September 2026

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