Bitter sweet symphony
HARARE - When Zimbabwe Cricket (ZC) made the announcement that the Masvingo-based franchise, Southern Rocks would no longer be part of the franchise/first class system, the news would undoubtedly have...
View ArticleBlatter congratulates Cuthbert Dube
HARARE - Sepp Blatter, the president of the world football governing body, Fifa has congratulated newly re-elected Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) president, Cuthbert Dube. Dube won the...
View ArticleZC announce dates for SA, Assuie tour
HARARE - Zimbabwe Cricket (ZC) has confirmed dates and venues for the South Africa and Australia tours to Zimbabwe later this year. South Africa will arrive in Zimbabwe on August 5, for a month-long...
View ArticleZim junior rugby in decline
HARARE - The current tour to Zimbabwe by the England Independent Schools rugby side has raised more questions rather than answers on how junior rugby in this country seems to be weakening with each...
View ArticleWarriors move back into top 100
HARARE - Zimbabwe's football team has returned back to top 100 on the latest Fifa Coca-Cola World Rankings released yesterday after moving up four places. The rankings by the world football...
View ArticleEconet won't come back into football - Mboweni
HARARE - Zimbabwe's largest mobile telecommunication company, Econet Wireless Zimbabwe Limited (Econet), has maintained it will not return to sponsor football in the near future due to “other pressing...
View ArticleAcknowledging the crisis of a region
HARARE - The way South African media has been charmed by Zimbabwean striker Tendai Ndoro’s impressive goal-scoring ability gives us Zimbos a great deal of pride in one of our own. Having moved over to...
View ArticleCharamba in touch at Zim Open
HARARE - Tongo Charamba reeled in six birdies to keep within striking distance of pacesetter Le Roux Ferreira in the first round of the Golden Pilsener Zimbabwe Open at Royal Harare yesterday. The...
View ArticleClinic still shut down
BULAWAYO - Villagers in Irisvale resettlement area in Umzingwane district have gone for six months without a primary health care after nurses fled a local clinic owing to incessant paranormal attacks...
View ArticleMan bashes lover over sex
HARARE - A man has reportedly been bashing his girlfriend if she refuses to make love to him or is not in the mood for intimacy, the court has heard. Cuthbert Tapiwa allegedly assaults and harasses...
View ArticleMurder suspect accused of perjury
HARARE - Prosecutor Editor Mavuto on Wednesday accused murder suspect Pritchard Zimondi of perjury, after he gave contradicting statements pertaining to the sequence of events. Zimondi is accused of...
View ArticleLaid off workers picket council offices
MUTARE - Hordes of disgruntled Mutare City Council contract workers yesterday besieged the Civic Centre demanding their dues. The workers camped at the Civic Centre’s corridors demanding audience with...
View ArticleZanu PF Masvingo defy politburo directive
HARARE - The Masvingo provincial leadership is defying a politburo directive to re-run the Zanu PF poll after provincial election results were sullied by allegations of electoral fraud and flagrant...
View ArticleChombo orders demolition of houses
CHITUNGWIZA - Government issued a three-week ultimatum yesterday to Chitungwiza and Manyame Rural District Council residents to destroy their illegally constructed houses. The houses in question are...
View ArticleZim pursues Sadc bail out
HARARE - Zimbabwe's cash-strapped government is still anxiously making efforts to secure lines of credit from neighbouring countries, a government official said yesterday. “The ministry is making...
View ArticleGumbura's fresh rape trial deferred again
HARARE - The trial of jailed Independent End Time Message founder Robert Martin Gumbura on a fresh rape charge failed to kick-off for the third time yesterday after his lawyer Rekai Maposa recused...
View ArticleANZ lawyer miffed by delays in Khalfan case
HARARE - The defence lawyer for Associated Newspapers of Zimbabwe (ANZ), Alec Muchadehama, has expressed his disappointment with the manner in which the criminal defamation case of the company’s Group...
View Article'Minister caught in web of lies'
HARARE - Christopher Mushowe, the Manicaland Provincial Affairs minister, yesterday squirmed under tough probing over ex-Indigenisation minister Saviour Kasukuwere’s dubious documents that sought to...
View ArticleMangoma kicked out
HARARE - In a move that analysts said last night could either end or heighten the strife within the MDC, the opposition party yesterday summarily expelled suspended deputy treasurer-general Elton...
View ArticleCourtois to play against Blues
LONDON - Chelsea have been drawn to face Atlético Madrid in the Champions League semi-finals, having been told by Uefa that a clause requiring the Spaniards to fork out up to €6m for the goalkeeper...
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