HARARE – The trial of former Zifa chief executive Henrietta Rushwaya took a dramatic twist yesterday after sensational claims by former Young Warriors manager Bekithemba Ndlovu that he masterminded the Asiagate match-fixing scam, not Rushwaya. Ndlovu, a former Monomotapa Football Club official, put himself in the line of fire yesterday after admitting, while testifying in…
HARARE – Zimbabwe Cricket made an announcement on Tuesday that has left every cricket followers in the country speechless and flabbergasted. The announcement was that both Heath Streak and Grant Flower, who are the national bowling and batting coaches respectively, will not be traveling with the national team to the West Indies. The team are…
BULAWAYO – Police have raided a youth civic society organisation on allegations the group is conducting illegal voter registration and keeping subversive material. Four detectives from Bulawayo Central Police Station’s Law and Order section pounced on National Youth Development Trust (NYDT) premises in the city centre yesterday morning and turned the offices upside down. Officials…
HARARE – Demoralised by failure to unseat President Robert Mugabe in the 2008 vote, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC’s chance to unseat the veteran ruler is facing a major stumbling block — an indigenisation policy which is reconnecting Zanu PF to grassroots communities. The MDC has stepped up a drive to appeal to voters’ worries…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Iron and Steel Company (Zisco)’s — now NewZim Steel — workers have appealed to President Robert Mugabe for intervention in the recovery of their unpaid wages. The 3 500 workers, owed five years’ worth of salaries, yesterday told Parliament’s Industry and Commerce portfolio committee that their welfare had massively deteriorated, despite…
HARARE – The former UK Big Brother star Makosi Musambasi has slammed her critics as cowards as she defended her open support for President Robert Mugabe and his Zanu PF party. Makosi, now back in Zimbabwe, has told New Zimbabwe.com she would like to meet Mugabe one day, claiming: “Who doesn’t? Even Barack Obama wants…
HARARE – We are so intent on following the political dramas in our unity government. News that the GMB had stopped selling maize to millers in January went almost unnoticed at a time the Grain Millers Association were reported saying the GMB had told them they were “working on some logistics.” Before the issue of…
HARARE – I entered the small library which is used as a classroom. There were about four or five inmates gathered around a desk. One of the inmates was said to be their teacher. She said she was reading for a Master’s in Business Administration. After being introduced to the women, I asked for their…
TSHOLOTSHO – At the crack of dawn the sound of the rooster rings through a homestead, jolting people out of their slumber. In reaction, villagers begin cleaning chores while school children begin to consort for their daily jaunt to different distant schools. For 35-year-old Ntonkozo Mabiza, the alert from the rooster means more strain and…
HARARE – Education minister David Coltart yesterday blamed the disappointing November 2012 Ordinary Level examination results on the “extreme crisis in education experienced between approximately 2005 and 2009”. Results released on Monday showed 81,6 percent of the 172 698 who sat for the examinations failed to pass at least five subjects with grade C or…
