HARARE – Prince Edward School came from behind to beat Gateway High School 61-55 in a Super Seven Harare Basketball League match on Friday. Guard Charles Wilson (22 points) and Patrick Nhamburo (12 points) were the highest point scorers for PE in an important victory against the visitors. The two teams went at each other…
HARARE – Emerging Mountaineers off spinner Tapiwa Mufudza stole the limelight taking four vital wickets that were instrumental in his side’s seven-wicket win over Mashonaland Eagles in the Twenty20 final here yesterday. The victory born out of a clinical all-round display saw the Mutare-based Mountaineers side pen yet another piece of history in this shorter…
HARARE – Zimbabwe will host this year’s edition of Confederation of Schools Sport Association of Southern Africa (Cossasa) athletics games in Harare in the last weekend of April. Zimbabwe National Association of Secondary Heads (Nash) president Johnson Madhuku, who is also Cossasa vice president, said they have started to prepare for the event. “Preparations to…
JOHANNESBURG – Nigeria last night reclaimed their status as one of the continent’s powerhouses when they won their third African Nations Cup title, 19 years after the West Africans last lifted the biggest prize in African football. It has taken almost two decades for the Nigerians to reawaken from their deep slumber, and true to…
HARARE – Pretoria Portland Cement (PPC)’s Zimbabwe unit Portland Holdings Limited (PHL) plans to double cement output to two million tonnes on completion of its $200 million plant in Mashonaland Central. The cement manufacturer on Thursday said feasibility studies on the construction of the new plant were at an advanced stage. “The new plant will…
BULAWAYO – Charles Thomas, a 45-year-old Gukurahundi victim — who suffered head injuries during the 90s massacre — should undergo a brain scan, a government doctor has ordered. Thomas, a member of Mthwakazi Liberation Front (MLF) who is facing treason charges together with Paul Siwela and John Gazi for calling for the secession of Matabeleland…
JOHANNESBURG – Former world number 1 golfer Nick Price says fellow Zimbabwean Brendon de Jonge just needs a first PGA Tour win to set himself on the path to greatness and become, like him in his heyday, one of the best players on the planet. Price, a winner of three Majors in the 1990s and…
HARARE – A man sneaked into a house, bludgeoned the owner with a hoe on the head before dragging the unconscious man’s wife outside, where he raped her, a Harare magistrate has heard. Tanyanyiwa Nyamuropa, 36, allegedly raped the woman twice before running away to an unknown place. Nyamuropa last week appeared before magistrate Tendai…
HARARE – Four female employees have been allegedly dismissed from a Harare accounting firm after turning down advances from the boss. The four women claim that Phanuel Pange, the managing partner at Mazhandu and Company Chartered Accountants, proposed love to them but rejected his proposal, resulting in their subsequent dismissal. The claims are contained in…
HARARE – After spending three years in government without its own party economic blue print but only deploying its energy towards demonising Zanu PF’s indigenisation policy, mainstream MDC has exposed its policy dysfunction with the launch of a vacuous economic policy. The economic blueprint, Jobs, Upliftment, Investment, Capital and the Environment (Juice), authored by Eddie…
