HARARE – CAPS United maintained their dominance over FC Platinum with a narrow win over the Zvishavane-based side in a Castle Premiership match here yesterday. The win saw the Green Machine bouncing back to winning ways following last weekend’s 1-0 defeat at the hands of rivals Dynamos and a mid-week two-all draw against Tripple B…
BULAWAYO – Highlanders won the second edition of the Benjani Mwaruwari Youth Festival after defeating Bantu Rovers in a hotly contested final that had to be decided by a penalty shoot-out here yesterday. The game had ended 1-1 during regulation time. Goalkeeper Brighton Zulu was the hero for the Dumaza Dube-coached Bosso juniors after saving…
MPOSI – The minority Lemba (Varemba) people who have remained marginalised by the government are demanding back their Ngomalungundu which is believed to be the Ark of the Covenant and kept at a museum in Harare. Ngomalungundu is a scared and powerful ancestral drum which the Lemba people, also known as Black Jews, believe gives…
HARARE – Former National Housing minister Fidelis Mhashu’s political career is hanging by a thread after he was condemned to primary elections as more heavyweights stumbled in the internal MDC elections held in Chitungwiza and Bulawayo yesterday. Mhashu, Chitungwiza North legislator, was among the high-profile MDC senior politicians who failed to avoid facing off rivals…
HARARE – The International Finance Corporation (IFC) has acquired a 10 percent stake in regional financial institution ABC Holdings (ABCH) in a debt-equity swap deal. Under the transaction, ABCH allotted 24 080 230 ordinary shares to IFC to settle a $20 million loan, including accrued interest. In 2007, IFC extended a seven-year loan to ABCH…
CHIWESHE – Working as a medical doctor is not something easy in a country like Zimbabwe. Despite the high regard with which the job is held in other parts of the world, here it is treated just like any other thankless profession characterised by low pay, long working hours and above all poor working conditions….
HARARE – Dynamos coach Calisto Pasuwa is worried by the number of injuries to his key players which has forced him to constantly tinker with his squad thus far in the Castle Premiership. The defending champions picked maximum points at the weekend following a 2-0 win over Motor Action at Rufaro Stadium with largely a…
HARARE – Jevan Ben Maseko, a retired army general buried at the National Heroes Acre yesterday, died struggling to get reliable transport to ferry him to hospital, it has emerged. Acting President Joice Mujuru, who officiated at the burial ceremony, said the former ambassador to Algeria, Russia and Cuba only managed to get a new…
HARARE – At 89, President Robert Mugabe easily qualifies to be in Zimbabwe’s old boys’ brigade, whose members should be tucked at home or in an old people’s institution enjoying their sunset. Yet he is at the thick of things in the country’s political arena and insists on contesting the next elections. But the same…
HARARE – The new Constitution has done away with powers used by Local Government minister Ignatius Chombo to fire mayors and councillors countrywide. To date, the Zanu PF minister has fired dozens of elected councillors, mainly those elected on the MDC ticket and replacing them with handpicked commissioners. But that is going to be a…
