Zimbabwe Music Awards Postponed Due to Lockdown
19 January 2021
[Photo Credit:Music in Africa]
By Kinyua Mwangi
The Zimbabwe Music Awards (Zima) have been pushed to February 20, 2021 due to the high number of COVID-19 cases in Zimbabwe at the moment.
They had been slated for February 6 but with a month-long lockdown, this is not possible according to the event’s organizers.
Zima spokesperson, Benjamin Nyandoro in a statement said they have pushed the dates in compliance with COVID-19 protocols.
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“Zima wishes to inform all music stakeholders that the ZIMA2021 awards ceremony has been rescheduled. This has been necessitated by the ongoing developments around concerted efforts to curtail the further spread of Covid-19 and possibly find a lasting solution to this pandemic.
“We hope that by February 20th, the environment will be more conducive to hold the awards ceremony while still adhering to safe health practices. Zima had 1,235 entries in 2020. It was a hard year but the huge number of entries is encouraging. Nevertheless, music is still a way of life. By close of submissions as at December 31, 2020, our team had received more than 1 235 music submissions across 30 categories. Impressive and surely well deserving of a befitting awards ceremony,” stated the event’s boss.
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In the entries, there was a new category of the best COVID-19 awareness song of 2020.
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