BULAWAYO – The Southern Region Division One championship race continues to be a ding-dong affair with ZPC Hwange wresting the top spot from How Mine after the gold miners suffered a shock 1-0 defeat to lowly Sizane at the weekend. Edgar Chinjekure struck the killer blow for the fruit and vegetable peddlers who are destined…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe today officially opens the fifth session of the Seventh Zimbabwe Parliament after an inexplicable and inordinate delay. Mugabe’s opening of Parliament comes barely a week after his unsolicited declaration at the Second All-Stakeholders’ Conference that the legislature is not “sovereign and cannot dictate the actions of the Global Political Agreement…
HARARE – Ecobank are this year’s Bankers Soccer League (BSL) knock out tournament champions after they edged a battling CBZ team 1-0 over the weekend. The final match started at a fast pace with CBZ dictating the pace. Ecobank took the lead through a Taurai Madhiri beauty in the 25th minute. Thomas Nyadundu of CBZ…
HARARE – The Global Political Agreement (GPA) was signed between the MDC formations and Zanu PF in September 2008 after an internationally condemned and bastardised presidential election run-off in June of that year that was accompanied by colossal pre and post-election human rights violations targeted against suspected regime opponents. In my understanding the GPA was…
HARARE – The organ on National Healing, Reconciliation and Integration (NHRI) has embarked on a research into the genealogy of political violence in Zimbabwe. “The main question about this project is to find out if Zimbabweans are a violent society. The project seeks to find out if violence emanates from our cultural and traditional background,”…
HARARE – “A prophet has no honour in his own country” is an age old adage, but one that rings true in every sense to the Tsimba brothers, Richard and Kennedy. It’s a pity few people in Zimbabwe appreciate the greatness of the Harare-born brothers, who last week became the first black men to be…
HARARE – Motor Action have had little to cheer about in a season they have fallen from grace from the lofty standards they set themselves in the last two years. League winners in 2010, and runners up the following year in both the lucrative Mbada Diamonds Cup and league championship, many expected Jeoy Antipas’ men…
HARARE – Most disputed elections in Africa have occurred after incumbents who were not prepared to accept defeat have resorted to various forms of fraud and cheating to forcibly impose outcomes that enabled them to cling to power illegally while overturning the expressed will of the electorate. One dictionary defines rigging as “someone arranging dishonestly…
HARARE – Talented urban grooves musician Enoch “Nox” Guni won his first ever award at the Zimbabwe Music and Arts Awards (Zimaa) held over the weekend in the United Kingdom. Nox won the Touring Artiste of the Year Award. The artiste said he was pleased with the award and hopes to have more achievements in…
HARARE – Finance minister Tendai Biti has told President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai to keep violence at bay ahead of forthcoming elections, warning that the economy will suffer terribly if a repeat of the 2008 bloodshed happens. He was speaking on the sidelines of a 2012 government workshop programme review and 2013…
