BULAWAYO – Caps United right-sided midfielder Hardlife Zvirekwi may be a bit on the short side, but he definitely stood head and shoulders above the rest in his team’s 2-1 victory over Castle Premiership newcomers How Mine at Luveve Stadium on Sunday. Zvirekwi played a pivotal role in Makepekepe’s third victory of the season by…
HARARE – Barclays Zimbabwe managing director George Guvamatanga says Zimbabwean professionals living in the Diaspora should contribute to the embattled country’s economic turnaround. Guvamatanga, also the Bankers Association of Zimbabwe president, said while Zimbabweans continued to nurse hyperinflation hangover, “…friends from the Far East are seeing opportunities that we locals are not seeing.” “This has…
HARARE – The servile media have upped the ante in propaganda over the past few weeks. To speak of “State-controlled media” is, of course, charitable when such media invariably serve the interests of a single political party. In recent weeks, we have been told Western nations have been “stampeding” to normalise relations with Zimbabwe. This,…
HARARE – A dirty strip snakes into a rundown compound in Caledonia, a bustling settlement established to house victims of President Robert Mugabe’s Operation Murambatsvina (drive out trash) seven years ago. In this midst of extreme poverty, residents here, 20 kilometres east of the capital Harare, still remember to celebrate Independence Day. But they say…
HARARE – Political parties, including Zapu and the Welshman Ncube led MDC, yesterday rallied behind Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC demands for transparency in the voter registration process. At a closed door meeting between 18 political parties and the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) also attended by under-fire Registrar General Tobaiwa Mudede, the political parties demanded…
HARARE – No king will reign forever, so the saying goes. Is the prevailing situation at Dynamos proving the old adage true? Poor Dynamos reached for a new level of mediocrity on Sunday with another average performance to escape with a lucky one all draw against rivals Highlanders at Rufaro Stadium in the Castle Premiership….
HARARE – Social workers have urged national event organisers and police to protect children during State events following the death of two minors and their mother in an accident in Warren Park after Independence celebrations. Simbisai Mumango, 26, and her children Rumbidzai, 6 and Nyasha, 18, months, were fatally struck near the National Sports Stadium,…
TRIPOLI – A car bomb has exploded outside the French embassy in the Libyan capital Tripoli, wounding two French guards and several residents. The blast in Tripoli destroyed the embassy’s ground-floor reception area and perimeter wall, as well as damaging neighbouring homes and shops. French President Francois Hollande called on Libya to act swiftly over…
LAGOS – Intense fighting between the military and Islamist militants in northern Nigeria is reported to have killed at least 185 people, however the army has disputed this figure. Rocket-propelled grenades and heavy gunfire bombarded the remote town of Baga near the border with Chad for hours on Friday evening, officials say. Some 2,000 homes…
HARARE – A Spaniard by the name of Baltasar Gracian is credited with the saying: “The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause”. Still on the same subject, one Jennifer James also crafted these profound words: “Jealousy is simply and clearly the fear that you do not have value. Jealousy…
