HARARE – After failing to defend their Spar Harare International Sevens at the weekend, Zimbabwe will have to re-group and polish their handling skills and learn to be more clinical if they are to acquire IRB World Sevens Series core-member status and do well at this year’s World Cup. Gilbert Nyamutsamba’s team was found wanting…
HARARE – It is notable that from the Dynamos team that reached the African Champions League semi-finals almost five years ago, only current captain Murape Murape survives. Four years later and some catastrophic Champions League campaigns in-between, Dynamos are looking for inspiration from that fine run under David Mandigora in 2008 as they prepare to…
HARARE – Twenty female dance groups will clash at City Sports Bar tonight in a competition to mark International Women’s Day. Harpers Mapimhidze of Dancers Association of Zimbabwe (DAZ) is delighted because Zimbabwe’s top female dancers have agreed to honour such a significant day in the fight for gender equality. “Since we are in March,…
HARARE – Zimbabwe cricket coach Alan Butcher is hoping his team will salvage some pride in the two-match Test series which begins with the opener in Bridgetown, Barbados, today. Today’s match at Kensington Oval will mark the first time Zimbabwe will be playing a Test match in the Caribbean in a decade. It will also…
HARARE – Econet Wireless has slashed the cost of sending money through EcoCash by as much as 34 percent, with transactions of less than a dollar now completely free. The new tariff regime is expected to accelerate growth of a service that already processes more than two million transactions per week, valued at more than…
HARARE – Chicken Inn have dedicated their NetOne Charity Shield victory to late coach Adam Ndlovu after beating CAPS United 3-2 in the final at Mandava Stadium on Sunday. Ndlovu passed away in a car crash in Victoria Falls in December after guiding the Bulawayo side to third place in the Castle Premiership – their…
HARARE – Every year on March 8 we observe International Women’s Day. It is wonderful to see that in over 100 years since women’s day was first observed in 1909, immense progress has been made in alleviating the plight of girls and women. Yet, today is also a reminder about the many injustices against women…
ZVISHAVANE – Three days after holding Chiredzi spell-bound, popular dancer Beverly ‘Bev’ Sibanda left Zvishavane men eating from her palm on Saturday night. Clad in body-hugging attire, the raunchy dancer whose dancing routines continue to brew conflicting opinions across the cultural divide nudged sleepy Zvishavane into life with her action-packed show. The show, however, got…
HARARE – Supreme Court judge Rita Makarau, appointed on a temporary basis to head the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec), has now been given a permanent contract. The Judicial Service Commission secretary’s appointment to Zec on an acting capacity caused a political storm after Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai rejected the move arguing it trivialises the critical…
HARARE – Falcon Gold Zimbabwe (Falcongold), one of the country’s leading gold producers, has applied for a High Court order to bar employees from grabbing its Dalny Mine. In an urgent chamber application, Falgold is citing Mullasios Sakala and 17 others as respondents. The court heard that respondents (workers) stormed the mine, in Chakari —…
