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Food & Drink
Inside the Harare Food & Wine Festival's biggest year yet
How a one-day tasting grew into a weekend institution — and what the organisers learned about feeding a crowd.
Nyasha Dube · 09 May,2026 · 1 min read
Comedy
From open mic to main stage: Bulawayo's comedy pipeline
At The Bag, Tuesday nights are where the city's next headliners are made. We spent a season watching them rise.
Sipho Ncube · 02 May,2026 · 1 min read
Music
Victoria Falls Carnival returns, bigger and louder
The year's loudest send-off comes back with a second stage and a bill built almost entirely from regional acts.
Tendai Chari · 27 Apr,2026 · 1 min read
Product
What we learned shipping offline scanning
Venue Wi-Fi is always bad. So we rebuilt the scanner to assume no network — and never double-admit a ticket.
Rudo Sibanda · 21 Apr,2026 · 1 min read
Organiser Playbook
The quiet art of the door list
Not the line-up — the door list is what keeps organisers up the night before. Lock it early and trust it.
Kuda Moyo · 14 Apr,2026 · 1 min read
Arts
Joburg Art Fair preview: what's worth your Saturday
The fair spills beyond the main hall this year, with satellite shows, a late opening, and a section for first-timers.
Lerato Khumalo · 06 Apr,2026 · 1 min read
Sport
The derby and the return of the big match
When the city's two biggest clubs meet, the on-sale is its own event — rehearsed in advance like a product launch.
Sibusiso Ndlovu · 30 Mar,2026 · 1 min read
Comedy
Stand-up is booming, and the numbers prove it
Comedy audiences book late and rarely abandon the cart. Inside the ticket data behind a scene that quietly got real.
Sipho Ncube · 23 Mar,2026 · 1 min read
Food & Drink
Street-food night markets take over Harare
A handful of stalls in a car park became the city's most reliable weekend plan. The format works because it asks for nothing.
Nyasha Dube · 16 Mar,2026 · 1 min read
Organiser Playbook
Designing an event page that sells
Most pages lose the sale in the first scroll — on doubt, not price. Answer four questions above the fold and get out of the way.
Kuda Moyo · 09 Mar,2026 · 1 min read
Culture
The comeback of the listening session
Phones away, no support act, no rush. Between the club and the concert, a quieter format has found a real audience.
Tariro Mhaka · 23 Feb,2026 · 1 min read
Arts
Behind the scenes of a sold-out theatre run
It opened half-full with the budget already spent. What turned it around was word of mouth — and the ability to say yes to demand fast.
Lerato Khumalo · 12 Feb,2026 · 1 min read
Music
The road to a regional tour starts at home
Before an act can sell out Lusaka or Maputo, it has to prove it at home. Inside the slow build of a regional touring circuit.
Tendai Chari · 04 Feb,2026 · 1 min read
Product
EcoCash, PayNow, and the art of not losing a sale
Most abandoned checkouts aren't about price — they're about a payment step that asked too much. What we changed, and why it worked.
Rudo Sibanda · 28 Jan,2026 · 1 min read
Organiser Playbook
How to read your event's sales curve
Every on-sale has a shape — a spike, a long flat middle, a final-week surge. Learn to read it and you can stop panicking in week two.
Kuda Moyo · 19 Jan,2026 · 1 min read