Gloom for Dynamos
HARARE - It an old adage that history repeats itself, first as tragedy, and then as farce. The cliché rings true to Zimbabwean champions Dynamos Football Club. Hours after the club’s executive...
View ArticleTwine trounces Mubaiwa to retain PSL chairmanship
HARARE - Twine Phiri will lead the Premier Soccer League (PSL) for the next four years after the CAPS United boss was overwhelmingly retained for a second term on Sunday at the league’s annual general...
View ArticleWorkers reject retrenchment deal
HARARE - Employees at the government-run National Pharmaceutical Company of Zimbabwe (NatPharm) have rejected a proposed retrenchment deal — adamant that the drug procurement agency was still solvent....
View ArticleAttorney accused of forging client signature
HARARE - A city attorney has been accused of forging his client’s signatures on legal documents in a child support row. Tafadzwa Hungwe of Venturas and Samukange law firm is alleged to have forged his...
View ArticleFather 'sodomises' two-month-old daughter
HARARE - A 39-year-old Rugare man allegedly sodomised his two-month-old baby on two occasions when his wife left him nestling their child. Lovemore Sithole was remanded in custody to March 18 when he...
View ArticleFive big questions for Oscar
PRETORIA - The pieces of the puzzle are slowly coming together — but whose story will be vindicated? After five days and nine witnesses in the Oscar Pistorius murder trial, both the prosecution and...
View ArticleMissing Malaysia plane 'may have turned back'
KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysian authorities have announced that they are now investigating the possibility a missing Malaysian Airlines plane had turned back before disappearing, and are widening the search...
View ArticleZim passes new Human Trafficking Bill
HARARE - Zimbabwe has passed legislation that tightens penalties for human trafficking, and criminalise Internet service providers hosting adverts linked to the scourge. The Trafficking in Persons...
View ArticleEmpowerment deal for local youths on cards
HARARE - Local youth empowerment group, Zimbabwe Entrepreneurs Youth Action (Zeya), has signed a multi-million dollar deal with an international South African investment company to empower local...
View ArticleTension high in Goromonzi over evictions
HARARE - Tensions are escalating in Goromonzi as residents are being arbitrarily evicted from their homes, while land is being sold for as little as a single goat. Fingered in the scam is Tafi...
View ArticleBarking dogs a nuisance, says mayor
BULAWAYO - Martin Moyo, the Bulawayo mayor, left councillors in stitches when he said dogs should not bark. The mayor said this at a full council meeting held at the city chambers on Thursday. “Dogs...
View ArticleMadhuku twists knife into Zanu PF
HARARE - National Constitutional Assembly (NCA) interim leader, Lovemore Madhuku, has left the door ajar for a possible coalition with Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC but for now he is growing his party,...
View ArticleHifa, Vic Falls Carnival get CNN kudos
HARARE - Zimbabwe's Harare International Festival of Arts (Hifa) and the Victoria Falls Carnival have been included among seven must-see African festivals by Cable News Network (CNN). The two...
View Article'Art and fashion share common bond'
LONDON - The story is notable in so many ways it makes my head spin. Recently while having a conversation about the relationship between art and fashion, an artist expressed their worry regarding the...
View ArticleHow long should Mugabe be misled?
HARARE - Indigenisation and Empowerment law is in the spotlight again. But Zanu PF’s fulminating and ruminating against indigenisation critics will surely count for nothing in the wake of revelations...
View ArticleSo is this liberty?
EDITOR — I do not have the words to describe my sorrow at the death of those 22 Zimbabweans in that mine shaft in Roodepoort, South Africa. And I do not have the words to describe some of our callous...
View ArticleCorruption will never end
EDITOR — I am amazed with Zimbabweans. People must not expect anything called action from this government. You must point out one prominent person who was jailed because of corruption in Zimbabwe. -...
View ArticleNo industry budgetary support: EU
HARARE - THE European Union (EU) says it has no plans to extend budgetary support to Zimbabwe’s stuttering industry. Aldo Dell’ Ariccia, the union's head of delegation to Zimbabwe, said the trading...
View ArticleTsvangirai, Biti feud escalates
HARARE - MDC secretary-general Tendai Biti could have fallen for a shrewd plot to finger him as Elton Mangoma’s handler after he sought to overturn a suspension imposed by the National Council on the...
View ArticleCorruption rampant at registrar office: Mudede
HARARE - Registrar-general Tobaiwa Mudede has told Parliament that corruption is rampant at his office. While giving oral evidence to the defence, home affairs and security services committee, Mudede...
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