HARARE – Does Welshman Ncube inspire optimism? Does Morgan Tsvangirai inspire hope? Both erstwhile social democrats and presidential candidates are trying to win the support of voters by de-campaigning each other. Politics can either be about building up or tearing down. The latter approach has dominated the two candidates’ campaign against each other in recent…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Boxing Committee (ZBC), a lobby group aiming to reclaim glory days in the sport, is seeking a meeting with Sports minister David Coltart. ZBC held a stakeholders meeting at the weekend and drafted names that they want the minister to co-op into the new Zimbabwe Board of Wrestling and Boxing Control…
MUTARE – Walking on tip- toe across one of Sakubva River’s tributaries in Chikanga, one freezes and feels an instant urge to throw up. Solid faeces race through the yellowish brown sewer-chocked current towards the river whose catchment streams Mutare City is clandestinely using as a cheap open-air drainage system. This is a city the…
HARARE – Parents and pupils filled the streets yesterday as they frantically made their way to their various pick-up points en-route to boarding schools. Others were struggling to get places for their children and were forced to secure places at rundown city private colleges. The Rotten Row bus-stop was bustling with activity as school children…
HARARE – Growth of e-solutions in Zimbabwe is being severely hindered by poor investment in information communication technology (ICT) infrastructure and implementation of a comprehensive legislation, ICT experts say. This comes as ICTs minister Nelson Chamisa slammed Finance minister Tendai Biti for allocating “meagre funds” for his ministry in the 2013 national budget. Chamisa —…
HARARE – Dynamos’ romance with their most loyal and famous son, Desmond “Gazza” Maringwa, has come to an end after the midfielder was omitted from the club’s 25-member squad registered for the upcoming domestic season. Maringwa, a veteran of many battles for the Glamour Boys, has not played for any other team apart from Dynamos…
BULAWAYO – Voter registration activists in Bulawayo are living in fear following a clampdown by the police to stop further registration of first time voters in the city widely regarded as an MDC stronghold. Helen Tsepiso Mpofu, who has for the past years been spearheading voter registration in Bulawayo under the Youth Initiative for Democracy…
MUTARE – Service delivery has all but collapsed in Masvingo where council workers owed money continue attaching property. The messenger of court, acting for the workers, has attached more vehicles and other movable property over the $3,5 million salary row. This follows the dismissal of a council urgent application by the High Court to stop…
HARARE – Since 2009, Zimbabwe has been making half-hearted attempts at democratisation following a disputed election the previous year. The piecemeal reforms so far are attributable primarily to the dearth of political will and lack of financial resources. Of the political parties involved, Zanu PF in particular has demonstrated an aversion to democratic reform; it…
HARARE – Miss Global Zimbabwe Mutsa Mutare has launched a campaign to assist victims of last week’s destructive hailstorm in Chivi that left 35 homesteads severely damaged. The effort to pool resources for the affected Chivi families by Mutare was confirmed by the Miss Global Zimbabwe head of public relations Tare Munzara yesterday. “We feel…
