What A Glimpse of Zambezi Express Passed Through Yorkshire

By Nqobile Mafu

Siyaya Arts was started in 1989 as NASA (Nostalgic Actors & Singers Alliance). The ‘nostalgia’ Siyaya was founded upon refers to the powerful reinterpretation of traditional tales, music and dance, which is often brought to life by relating them to their modern derivatives. Touring throughout Europe, Africa and directed by Saimon Mambazo Phiri, Siyaya has gained a good reputation particularly for imaginative manipulation and use of social issues in our music. Recently the group took Yorkshire by storm performing an extract taken from a highly, recommended production entitled Zambezi Express.

The production is a brilliant combination of music, dance , song and circus. ZAMBEZI EXPRESS is light on plot but heavy on dance, percussion and energy. Entertaining, sometimes thrilling and occasionally wow-inducing, it is well worth a look.

New Stitsha on its way to Qhube

Amakhosi Theatre Arts’ most successful production, Stitsha, which went on the international scene for two decade years ago,is set to make a comeback, with Bulawayo based production company, Qhube Productions, which was holding auditions for actors. Sihlangu Dlodlo, director of Qhube Productions,told ngiyesabanews source that he approached Cont Mhlanga, who wrote the play, for rights to the reproduction and was given a go-ahead. It will be staged at Amakhosi. Dlodlo said he attached a lot of importance to the play. “I believe it is one of the greatest plays in Africa. It might even top the list. It put Amakhosi on the world map,” he said. Also Dlodlo said the reason he decided to do the play was because it was a way to celebrate classic local plays. “I decided to do the play because of nostalgic reasons. I get jealous when I see people doing Macbeth and other Shakespearean plays, while shunning our own classic productions. “As Zimbabweans we should celebrate our own classic acts," said Dlodlo.

Ngiyesabanews can reveal that the boot camp is over and now Qhube productions is down to bussiness with the final cast. Rehearsals have started and the fisrt show will be showcased at Amakhosi Cultural centre in August.The final day of the boot camp ngiyesabanews quated Dlodlo saying “the final cast is comprise seasoned and upcoming performers, it was very hard to come up with the final cast. Stitsha is a play that involves a lot of drumming, singing and dancing. It is a story about one woman’s dream to break free from cultural barriers. Make a date to attend this exciting show

How did Aljazeera and BBC Cover Gaddafi’s Death?

By Nqobile Mafu

Television is the most used and popular source of entertainment and education. This report will show/or demonstrate that all media production is produced with an audience in mind. News is the easiest tool of sending messages the most common method of relaying information to the public, This project will analyse how different news organisations, the BBC and Aljazeera, cover the same news story and present it to the viewers, depending upon ideological bias. And how ideological bias is the structure of news organisation. The news story I intend to focus on is the coverage of the Libyan uprising and conflict. (My proposed news organisations are BBC News 24 and Aljazeera). The aim of this research project is to explore the difference in media bias of Aljazeera and BBC This project will look at the broadcast news and how ideological bias makes differences. I will look at how news programmes package information and represent it to the viewer's by giving examples. The main questions which are crucial for my research project are as follows;

What is the content?

How was the news edited?

What's the structure of news?

How do they package their news and present it?

How does the news differ between different news organisations?

Was story the fair? Or biased?

How did the organisation cover their story?

What other theorists have said about media bias.

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Without culture society would not exist, in fact, “there is no such thing as a human nature independent of culture”. Jenks, C. Culture. London: Routledge (1993). This dissertation will also analyse how the representation of the nation and Cultural difference was made during Gadhafi’s death.

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