Sibanda gets fresh start
HARARE - Zimbabwe top order batsman Vusi Sibanda is poised to return to his opening spot in the on-off Test against South Africa that starts this Saturday at Harare Sports club. Sibanda was dropped by...
View ArticleAntipas dares DeMbare
HARARE - Chicken Inn coach Joey Antipas is confident that his team will to bounce back to winning ways when they face Dynamos at Gwanzura Stadium this afternoon. The Gamecocks, who have been blowing...
View ArticleGorowa steps down as Warriors coach
HARARE - Ian Gorowa last night quit as the Zimbabwe national football team coach ahead of today’s crucial Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) board meeting that was set to decide his fate. The...
View ArticlePaul Siwela floats secession plan
BULAWAYO - Paul Siwela, a former presidential candidate and self-exiled leader of Matabeleland Liberation Organisation (MLO), has said the “people of Mthwakazi” were getting ready to execute the...
View ArticleRapist weeps after 20-year sentence
BULAWAYO - A 34-year-old Nkayi man yesterday wept uncontrollably after a regional magistrate sentenced him to 20 years in prison for raping a minor. Prosper Mnkandla from Dimpamiwa area in Nkayi was...
View ArticleZanu PF's ageing youth leader defies calls to quit
HARARE - Absolom Sikhosana, the Zanu PF youth secretary, yesterday branded as “imperialist machinations”, mounting calls that he steps down to make way for a younger leader. Sikhosana, 61, told the...
View ArticleDonors dump SW Radio
HARARE - London-based SW Radio Africa has been forced to cease broadcasting after losing donor support. SW Radio Africa, a non-profit station which broadcasts daily into Zimbabwe on shortwave, is...
View ArticleFastjet in maiden Dar-Harare flight
HARARE - London Stock Exchange-listed low-cost airline Fastjet flew its maiden flight to Zimbabwe yesterday on the Dar es Salaam-Harare route. The airline will service the route twice weekly with one...
View Article13 perish in horror crash
HARARE - A passenger bus slammed into a reversing truck, killing at least 13 people on Monday evening along the Harare-Nyamapanda road, police confirmed yesterday. The accident came a week after 16...
View ArticleToo many police road blocks
EDITOR — I’m appalled by the operations of traffic police along Chiremba Road where one can find no less than three to four police road-blocks within a 20km stretch of road to Epworth. A trip that is...
View ArticleLet's save our environment
HARARE - Drop a match and disappear — that’s the new method being employed by people clearing land for their self apportioned plots in urban areas. The fires, like the illegal grabbing of public land...
View ArticleDon't trust donors
HARARE - News that donors have dumped the London-based popular online news publication, SW Radio Africa, might have come as a surprise to the journalists who formed the organisation and their readers....
View ArticleTsvangirai's UK trip that rattled Zanu PF
HARARE - It started as a simple invitation to MDC president Morgan Tsvangirai to address the Royal Institute of International Affairs, but it appeared to have severely rattled our colleagues from what...
View ArticleKerry: US investment helping Africa
LONDON - US investment in Africa is fighting extremism there, US Secretary of State John Kerry has told the BBC. In an interview with BBC's HARDtalk, Mr Kerry said stability from business projects was...
View ArticleIndia anger at 'rape' fashion shoot
NEW DELHI - An Indian fashion shoot showing a woman being groped on a bus has caused anger, with social media users saying it glamorises the 2012 Delhi gang rape. Photographer Raj Shetye's images show...
View ArticleGallery to showcase exhibition
HARARE - Book cafe, Harare’s lively arts hub, will be marking Jamaica Independence Day with an exciting programme of film, music and food today. The celebrations begin with a screening from 6pm of the...
View ArticleArt seeks $3,5 million
HARARE - Zimbabwe Stock Exchange-listed group Art Corporation (Art) is seeking nearly $3,5 million for recapitalisation. The diversified concern is currently raising funding for capital expenditure in...
View ArticleZisco management kept in the dark on Essar deal
HARARE - Ziscosteel (Zisco) — now NewZim Steel — management has been kept in the dark about the deal between government and Indian steel make Essar Holdings (Essar). The iron processor’s chief...
View Article'Pregnancy, nude pics did not dethrone Miss Zimbabwe'
HARARE - Catherine Makaya was yesterday crowned the new Miss Zimbabwe 2014, replacing Thabiso Phiri who stepped down last Friday. The Miss Zimbabwe 2014 was stripped of her crown, sparking frenzied...
View ArticleRhinos derail Bosso charge
Black Rhinos............... (0) 1 Highlanders..................(0) 0 KADOMA - Highlanders remained in pole position on the Castle Premiership log standings despite defeat away to Black Rhinos...
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