Groove Magazine Zimbabwe Issue 2 | Page 11

Beat"; taking everybody down memory lane, and dedicating the music awards to the iconic late, former South African president, Nelson Mandela. A medley of kwaito hits from the early nineties brought audiences to their feet with featured performances by Thebe, who sang “Groovers Prayer”, and Zola history". And that was thanks to the selfie she took with some of the nominees which caused a buzz on social media. For starters, the first time Hollywood conferred its top honor to the work of a black director; and seeing that "12 Years A Slave" won the award for the Best Picture. Lupita Nyong'o won her first Oscar for Best Supporting Actress giving the film a total of three awards, which also included best adapted screenplay. “Gravity” won seven, the most of any film. Metro FM The first weekend of March was very eventful and one of the important events was down in Durban at the 13th Metro FM awards. Hosted by RGB presenters, Phat Joe and Pearl Thusi, this year's theme was "Celebrating 20 Years of with Unathi Msengana performed “Sana Lwami”. Mafikizolo won the best group, best African pop album and best produced album awards for “Reunited”, whilst Khuli Chana and Uhuru also walked away with two awards each, with Uhuru winning the coveted Song of the Year award for their hit song “Ytjukutja” ,voted by the public. Producers Oskido and Robbie Malinga received the lifetime achievement award. NAMA Like all awards shows, there is always that one individual, (or group) who have an incredible night by scooping the largest number of awards and the NAMAs were no exception, having most of the awards going to Jah Prayzah, who went home with four awards with each worth $2 000 and a hamper containing various goodies. Lucky guy! Young Innovators Google Africa Connected ran a competition aimed at discovering and promoting amazing successes achieved on the web across Africa, through Groove Magazine Zimbabwe innovations. The top five most inspiring and innovative web-based projects in Africa would win a prize that included getting $25,000 and expert assistance from Google in the use of it’s tools for their business .The Google Africa Awards were held in in Nairobi, Kenya, where the Google top 5 were announced. Thanks to the online votes via google, Zimbabwe’s , Nqobizitha “Enqore” Mlilo, was a runner-up in the competition. It is good to realize that our country has some talented , innovative young people who are using technology, not only for the benefit and growth of their businesses, but as a way of developing the country. Groove Magazine @ 1! The journey has been long and we still have a long way to go, but gladly after a year the magazine is thriving and building what is defined as the beat of the nation! 7