HARARE – Zimbabwe’s rugby team will be hoping for a change of fortune when they travel to Dubai early next month to take part in the Emirates Airline Cup of Nations. The Sables will travel to the United Arab Emirates on the back of two test defeats to Namibia and Spain, their first losses in…
HARARE – Gender and Community Development minister Olivia Muchena said on Saturday the budgetary allocation to her ministry was insufficient to launch a comprehensive campaign against gender-based violence (GBV). Muchena was speaking in Harare at the commemorations of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women and the ensuing 16 days of activism…
HARARE – Uzumba Zanu PF MP Simbaneuta Mudarikwa has blasted the State broadcaster ZBC for failing to give adequate radio and television transmission countrywide. “It’s unacceptable that 32 years after independence, we have sections in Zimbabwe which don’t get any radio from Zimbabwe and any TV from Zimbabwe, its criminal,” Mudarikwa told a workshop on…
HARARE – Rodreck Mutuma has expressed relief at ending the season on a high note after netting a brace in Dynamos’ Mbada Diamonds Cup final victory over Monomotapa on Saturday, but claims his form in the just-ended season was never a concern. Mutuma — who had an indifferent season compared to last year and was…
HARARE – Harare businessman Alex Mashamhanda is claiming financial damages from the city council for loss of profit. A $1,2 million service station and food court that Mashamhanda was building in Mbare was stopped by Harare town clerk Tendai Mahachi in February in what the businessman says is a political conspiracy involving Local Government minister,…
HARARE – Community share ownership trusts are benefitting a few already-rich individuals at the expense of the poor citizens, leading independent Economist Erich Bloch says. “We need a constructive indigenisation and empowerment law. What we do not want is to seize ownership of a company, enriching a few, while the rest are impoverished,” Bloch said…
HARARE – A bid by a Harare residents’ group to block Harare City Council’s 2013 budget from approval hit a brick wall on Friday after the High Court dismissed their application. Justice Martin Makonese dismissed an urgent chamber application filed by Harare Residents Trust (HRT) meant to stop operationalising council’s 2013 budget. According to the…
DAMASCUS – Activists in Syria say a government jet has dropped a cluster bomb on a playground, leaving 10 children dead. Video posted on the internet showed children’s bodies on the ground with their mothers grieving over them. The children were killed when a MiG fighter bombed a playground in the village of Deir al-Asafir,…
HARARE – Monomotapa coach Biggie Zuze believes playmaker Ronald Chitiyo’s injury cost his side’s chance of winning the Mbada Diamonds Cup on Saturday. Chitiyo was stretched from the field early in the second half due to an ankle injury, which affected Monoz’s rhythm against Dynamos, who scored two second half goals through double-scorer Rodreck Mutuma…
HARARE – After a glorious fortnight in which Suluman Chimbetu launched his fourth album, Syllabus before being voted the best male musician at the Victors Awards, Jazz 105 will throw a farewell party for the dendera artiste tonight before his departure for the United Kingdom. Harare entertainment joint Jazz 105 believes that Sulu’s glory-laden last…
