HARARE – Recent media reports that as of May 4 this year 3 000 cases of typhoid have been reported in the country’s capital since January is a catastrophic development likely to plunge the country down the precipice. It still baffles the mind why an intellectually-rich country like Zimbabwe is still tormented by mediaeval diseases…
HARARE – State agency, the Zimbabwe National Water Authority (Zinwa) has taken Zanu PF central committee member and former Chipinge South legislator Enock Porusingazi to court to recover a $100 000 debt. According to a lawsuit filed in the High Court, Zinwa is demanding $134 947, 55 from Porusingazi. The court heard Porusingazi procured raw…
HARARE – It’s hard to believe it has taken eight good years, since I visited this football-crazy country, for a German team to win the European Champions League as will be the case on May 28 at London’s Wembley Stadium. Fewer countries live and breathe football like Germany, and that for the first time in…
HARARE – Zimbabweans will soon troop to the polls for the umpteenth time in less than a decade-and-a-half to “choose” a new government. The new vote comes in the wake in which Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and his band of democrats under the MDC banner have taken time in government and tasted real political power…
HARARE – A 43-YEAR-old married man who could not stomach being dumped by his lover doused the ex-girlfriend’s bedroom with petrol before setting it ablaze killing four people in the process, a Harare magistrate has heard. Bernard Mazhandu Mucheka of Mhuriyengwe Village in Chivhu, who is facing murder charges, is accused of pouring five litres…
MASVINGO – Zanu PF national party chairman Simon Khaya Moyo and political commissar Webster Shamu are set to descend on Masvingo Province today for a mission that could leave Defence minister Emmerson Mnangagwa’s faction reeling. Mnangagwa is reportedly engaged in a fierce battle to succeed President Robert Mugabe with bitter rival Vice President Joice Mujuru….
HARARE – Buffaloes coach Saul Chaminuka says last weekend’s Castle Premiership defeat to Highlanders will not spark a slide at the Mutare side. The army side crashed to a 3-0 defeat to Bosso to see their five-match winning streak go up in smoke. Chaminuka said his team will bounce back strongly against How Mine at…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s forthcoming elections are on the ropes, with revelations that cash shortages are threatening a key voter registration exercise which has become the subject of fresh wrangling. Apart from the cash woes announced by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) yesterday, an MP from Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC on the same day tabled…
HARARE – A scandal is brewing in Harare City Council after councillors and a top official acquired commercial pieces of land for a song. Councillors Girisoti Mandere, Thomas Muzuva and Masiye Kapare and director of Urban Planning Services Psychology Chiwanga have been allowed to buy the land in Msasa area for half the price paid…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Road Cycling Association (ZRCA) will this weekend host the Manicaland Cycle Challenge in Vumba. The challenge is open to both professional and non-professional cyclists with the race scheduled to start from Mutare, heading into the scenic Vumba Mountains over Saturday and Sunday. Elite riders and mountain bikers will take off from…
