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Saturday June 3 2017 www.newsday.co.zw Everyday News for Everyday People THE NOMINEES OR THEIR REPRESENTATIVES SHOULD attenD THE AWARDS CEREMONY ON TUESDAY JUNE 6 at THE rainBOW TOWERS From 6.00PM G2 NewsDayWeekender Saturday 3 June 2017 HE inaugural Alpha Media Holdings (AMH) 100 Harare, AB Communications’ ZiFM Stereo, ZB Bank, things to be the best or to be famous or to be a Great Zimbabweans awards event will be held CBZ, World Vision and DHL, among others. legend. Instead they sacrifice those ambitions in Tin Harare on June 6. The awards are meant to To celebrate these individuals, AMH, through its favour of simply doing what the people around celebrate Zimbabweans, who have made sacrifices flagship NewsDay brand, invited nominations from them most need. They want to be great only without expecting grand external rewards, in favour Zimbabweans through email, social media and through being useful to those they care about of simply doing what the people around them need newspaper fill-in forms. most, regardless of how little acclaim they get from the most. The initiative is being run by AMH — It’s often argued a Great Person is one who the whole world for it. publishers of NewsDay, The Zimbabwe Independent does the right things for the right reasons without This pull out carries the profiles of the nominees and The Standard — in partnership with the City of expecting grand external rewards. They don’t do for the various categories. CARL JOSHUA NCUBE CARL Joshua Ncube is a stand-up comedian who has performed regionally and internationally as well as having made a name for himself in Zimbabwe. He has performed in South Africa, Botswana, Zambia, Uganda, Kenya, Nigeria and USA. SAMM FARAI MUNRO (COMRADE FATso) COMRADE Fatso is one of Zimbabwe’s pioneering creatives. He plays multiple roles including poetry, comedy, blogging, new media publishing as well as festival and creative directing with Magamba Network, one of Zimbabwe’s most dynamic organisations that works on the cutting edge of culture, media, activism and innovation. Magamba’s award-winning projects include Shoko Festival, Zimbabwe’s biggest festival of urban ADMIRE KUZHANGAIRA culture; KalabashMedia.com, one of the country’s leading Admire Kuzhangaira, popularly known as Bhutisi in the youth opinion blogs; and Zambezi News. comedy show, P.O. Box Reloaded, is a top actor and comedian. He is the co-founder of both P.O. Box with co-founders Rolland Lunga (Boss Kedha) (Boss Kedha) and Luckie Aaron and P.O. Box Reloaded which he co-founded with Lunga. Kuzhangaira shot to fame in November 2014 when their first P.O. Box video Hatiuyi Ikoko went viral on popular on Facebook and WhatsApp. Kuzhangaira trained in film at Zimbabwe Film and Television School of Southern Africa. TATADZEI “MR. HOSHO” CHIMANGA TATADZEI “Mr Hosho” Chimanga of the Air Force of Zimbabwe learnt to play the hosho (percussion) in early childhood. While in Grade Three at Nyamakosi Primary School, he had already mastered the art of playing hosho. During his final year at Nyamakosi, the founder of Zvishamiso Zvevapostori Bishop Mufuka had already seen that the boy exhibited special hosho-playing skills and he travelled with him during his crusades. He has since become a household name. PROSPER NGOMASHI PROSPER Ngomashi is a Zimbabwean comedian and MC who shot to fame after his comedy shot video titled Shamhu went viral in Zimbabwe on WhatsApp and Facebook in 2015. Prosper had been performing for years at various venues in Harare but was not mainstream. After the wild success of the Shamhu video however he became a household name in Zimbabwe. Ngomashi, who describes himself as The Comic Pastor is now part of P.O. Box, a comedy video film company that publishes it videos mainly on Facebook. TYRA CHIKOCHO TYRA Chikocho is a Zimbabwean gospel musician and EVE KAWADZA comedian who is popularly known as Madam Boss. As a SAMANTHA KUREYA VOCALIST Eve Kawadza has staged great performances gospel musician she has staged shows alongside Shingisai SAMANTHA Kureya popularly known as Gonyeti in the and has established herself as a unique talent. She has Suluma, Kudzi Nyakudya and many others. comedy show, Bustop Tv (previously known as P.O. Box) transformed into a phenomenal vocalist as lead singer is a Zimbabwean actress and stand-up comedian. Kureya of the band, Blaqberry Music which blends pop and Her debut six-track album Sunungura featured artistes did her schooling at Mufakose High School in Mufakose jazz, a feat many musicians cannot match. She started such as Ngoni Kambarami and MacDee as well as Kudzi Harare before following her mother’s footsteps into acting off by performing at musicals with Chipawo and had Nyakudya. As a comedian she has done commercials in 2008. In the second half of 2015, Kureya joined comedy an opportunity to participate in the pan-African Umoja for OK Zimbabwe, Ring Driving School and Impala Car show P.O. Box and performed alongside comedians Festival. Rental. Maggie Chideu and Prosper Ngomashi. NewsDayWeekender Saturday 3 June 2017 G3 SILVANOS MUDZVOVA OSKID GILMORE TEE BEATRICE MTETWA EKENIA CHIFAMBA AGNESS CHINDIMBA BEATRICE Mtetwa is a highly rated human rights lawyer. In EKENIA Chifamba has helped thousands of girls in need in AGNESS Chindimba is a young feminist and a disability 2014, she was honoured among 10 extraordinary women the country, including rape survivors and those in need of rights activist who has been living with deafness since from 10 countries presented with the United States education as well as victims of child marriages through her she was 14. She is a voice of the voiceless with passion Secretary of State’s International Women of Courage organisation, Shamwari Yemwanasikana. Over 35 000 girls for advocacy for people with disabilities since 2000 after Award. Mtetwa also sits on various commercial boards, belong to clubs sponsored by the organisation, o ering she was transferred to a special school for the deaf. When including Alpha Media Holdings and Guardian Media programs that include promoting leadership skills, career she developed deafness in 1995, she was exposed to the Group, and Pioneer Africa Corporation. guidance, and con dence building. challenges faced by young deaf girls in the mainstream system ignorant of the needs of the deaf. After her studies, She has won several human rights awards. she would be called on several occasions to help the police with communication with deaf girls who had been sexually abused. EVAN MAWARIRE EVAN Mawarire is a pastor, author, motivational speaker and founder of This Flag Movement that rallied citizens to demand government to ANGLISTONE SIBANDA be accountable in 2016 after posting videos ANGLISTONE Sibanda is the executive director of Shalom expressing his frustrations in April last year. This Projects and has been ghting for the rights of poor communities a ected by Gukurahundi in the Balagwe video went viral on Facebook and spurred the JONAH GOKOVA area of Matobo. In 2015, his pressure group spearheaded birth of the #ThisFlag movement which later JONAH Gokova is a human rights activist and chair of resistance to former Vice President Joice Mujuru’s intended called for “stayaways’ meant to shut down the Padare Enkudleni Men’s Forum on Gender, a movement of visit to the Gukurahundi sites because she was deemed country. men and boys advocating for gender justice in Zimbabwe. to be party of the Zanu PF system responsible for the atrocities. G4 NewsDayWeekender Saturday 3 June 2017 OBADIAH MOYO THE chief executive of Chitungwiza Central Hospital, Dr. Obadiah Moyo has translated the institution into a world- class hospital. It was the first to receive ISO certification in the country owing to the high standards that it has achieved and sustained. TIMOTHY STAMPS A former Health Minister, Dr. Timothy Stamps launched a trust to assist people living with chronic conditions in 2013 to help ease the burden of non-communicable diseases in the country. INGRID LANDMAN DR Ingrid Landman is the founder of Well Woman Clinic. She has worked in the field of HIV medicine since 1995 in Zimbabwe, mainly in the private sector. CHENGETAI DUNGA CHENGETAI Dunga is a Manicaland-based scientist who developed a machine that removes excess fluoride in underground water, which causes widespread fluorosis in poor communities in Zimbabwe. Fluorosis is a cosmetic condition that affects the teeth and is caused by over-exposure to fluoride during the first eight years of life. SOLOMON GURAMATUNHU DR. Solomon Guramatunhu is an eye specialist who has been in the medical field for over 30 years. He is a member of the International Cataract and Refractive Surgery Society of Southern Africa, the International Society of Refractive Surgery, the Corneal Society and the European Vitreo-retinal CHARLES WARARA FADZAI MAHERE Society and Euretina. Guramatunhu is also the patron of the A PArtnER with Warara and Associates, Charles FADZAYI Mahere is a Zimbabwean advocate of Zimbabwe Rural Schools Library Trust. Warara won this year’s 2016 Walter Kamba Rule the High Court and Supreme Court and was also BOTHWELL MBUVAYESANGO of Law Award in recognition of his role in leading a significant member of #ThisFlag Movement. DR. Bothwell Mbuwayesango is a Zimbabwean pediatric surgeon who successfully led an all Zimbabwean team that the private prosecution and incarceration of In June 2016, Mahere was part of a delegation separated conjoined twins in 2014 during an eight-hour rapist, ex-Bikita West MP, Munyaradzi Kereke. put together by This Flag Movement to meet operation at Harare hospital. It was the country’s second successful separation, the first was in 1983. The award is given to lawyers who would have with Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Governor John excelled and distinguished themselves as Mangudya concerning the introduction TAPUWA MAGURE human rights defenders.

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