A number of celebrities, including, Jah Prayzah were a no show at Ginimbi’s revamped club launch party. Nigerian hip-hop artiste Ice P...
A number of celebrities, including, Jah Prayzah were a no
show at Ginimbi’s revamped club launch party.
Nigerian hip-hop artiste Ice Prince and Buffallo Souljah were
all conspicuous by their absence. According
to Fred Zindi, three female and two male members of the television crew whom Ginimbi had hired from South African channel MTV Base Africa to film the event from 9pm
to 11pm and stream it live found no Pokello, Ice Prince, Buffallo Souljah,
Luminista or Jah Prayzah to film.
The red carpet was there. The MTV Base banner was on the
club wall, but there was nobody to walk on the red carpet.
According to Kimberley Jayde-Robinson, the MTV Base
presenter, their mandate was to do a documentary on youth, culture and music.
They chose not to interview Ginimbi because to them, he looked about 40.
According to them, youths are aged between 18 and 35. So
they did not interview Ginimbi. In order to justify their travel to Harare, the
team ended up interviewing Ammara Brown and Brian Kadengu who were elsewhere in
Borrowdale so that they would have content on return to South Africa .
People started to trickle into the club around 11pm. A lot
of them were turned away by the bouncers for wearing the wrong attire. I guess
these were the poor people the club did not want.
One of those turned away remarked: “Just because I am
dressed like this, does not mean I am poor. I am probably richer than Ginimbi,
but I don’t go about bragging about my money. When he becomes bankrupt, which
is quite possible, we will all be laughing at him. If you look inside you will
see several skimpily-dressed under-age girls working as waitresses. Is that
what we call proper dressing?”
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