All by Phil Chard

This Last Month Left Us Aghast

Hello Comrades! Welcome to the monthly recap of the happenings from your cousin sister’s favourite podcast! The month of August was truly one of the toughest ones some Zimbabweans have ever seen and your podcast hosts were not immune to the stresses of it all. Yet, somehow we made it through and we were able to deliver a podcast every week!

ZIMURA Explains Its New Blanket License Fees

Last week social media was thrown into a furore after the release of ZIMURA’s (Zimbabwe Music Rights Association) revised public broadcast fees for venues and locations that play music for the public. Many observers seemed to misunderstand the purpose these fees played and also why ZIMURA was threatening to fine venues.

Dan and Phil managed to contact Mr. Albert Nyathi – Chairman of The ZIURA board and Ms. Polisile Ncube-Chimhini – the Executive Director of ZIMURA to get some answers to questions that many artists and observers had.