HARARE – President Robert Mugabe turns 89 this month amid indications that he will run for a new term in the forthcoming elections. The veteran former guerrilla has shown amazing energy to remain in office although no one can discount that his health and advanced age work against him. Yes, his spin doctors have tried…
HARARE – Dynamos team manager Richard Chihoro has challenged the Glamour Boys to stay true to the club’s winning culture by taking today’s friendly match with Mamelodi Sundowns seriously. The friendly at Gwanzura Stadium will offer the Zimbabwean champions an early and vital test of their preparedness for this year’s edition of the African Champions…
HARARE – Commercial sex workers are singing the blues as potential clients reel from a cash squeeze associated with the “January disease”. Hard pressed with school fees and debts accruing from the festive season, most potential clients are staying at home or offering a pittance, leaving sex workers hanging dry. The situation is most telling…
HARARE – It is supposed to be a “gentleman’s game”, but this sport has not known peace for nearly 15 years now. For a sport long associated with President Robert Mugabe, the latest problems to rock Zimbabwe cricket are just a microcosm of the broader socio-economic issues confronting the country today and where everything is…
BULAWAYO – Zapu leader Dumiso Dabengwa says some Zanu PF stalwarts are begging him to return to the party to fill the post of vice president following the death of Vice President John Nkomo. Nkomo died last month, resulting in a dog fight between Zanu PF stalwarts eyeing the now vacant position. Dabengwa would have…
HARARE – Police have launched a blitz on Harare’s homeless people, vagrants and street kids and will swoop on parents who force their children to beg on the streets. Harare provincial police spokesperson Tadiuos Chibanda said those rounded up will be taken to government social services institutions while parents will be arrested. He said most…
HARARE – Police have recalled back to work senior officers studying at the police Staff College in preparation for watershed polls set for later this year. Addressing students at the police Staff College, deputy commissioner-general Levi Sibanda said the country could not risk violent polls simply because officers wanted to further their education levels. He…
HARARE – It’s official. The Raving King of dancehall Popcaan thrilled revellers with a scintillating performance at the Harare International Conference Centre (HICC) just after midnight yesterday. The Jamaican ushered his Zimbabwean fans into 2013 with most of his hits leaving the crowd spellbound. Popcaan came onto the stage a little after 12 midnight and…
BULAWAYO – Bulawayo artists have registered their views over the 2012 arts calendar citing a marked improvement in audience turnout as a big step last year. However, they all decried a disappointing trend of the same audience not willing to pay for shows. Over the years, the audience in the arts sector in Bulawayo has…
HARARE – Residents turned Harare into a party zone on New Year’s Eve as they celebrated the transition into 2013. But, no sooner had the fireworks died down did they realise nothing has really changed on the ground. Waking up to reality, Harare residents found taps dry, uncollected garbage littering the streets and the threat…
