KEZI – Villagers in rural Kezi in Matobo District face severe hunger after a devastating crop failure caused by poor rains in the 2012-13 farming season. Desperate villagers are likely to endure months of starvation until the next rainy season, unless government steps in with food handouts. “There is no food,” peasant farmer and Fuyana…
HARARE – Telecel Zimbabwe (Telecel) chairman James Makamba’s “optimism” that the local mobile operator can be fully indigenised may have arisen from Orascom Telecom (Orascom) parent Vimpelcom’s plans to sell its sub-Saharan assets. According to reports, the Russian Group is in the final stages of concluding a deal to sell its Burundi, Central African Republic…
HARARE – Although the weekend’s big Castle premiership match pitting Caps United and Highlanders failed to live up to expectations, one player really came to the fore and that is Rahman Kutsanzira. The United winger was in the thick of things throughout the match as the fading Harare giants earned a famous 2-1 win that…
HARARE – If he is not evading the police in his role as a tout and rank marshal at Mbare Musika, he is carrying travellers’ luggage in search of a dollar or two. That was the life Wilson Muchina had to come to know before a dramatic sequence of events turned around his fortunes for…
HARARE – The final edition of the ICC Champions Trophy has had a bit of everything to it. Everything that makes cricket the spell bounding and absorbing game that we all live for. Up to this point, India have undoubtedly been the team to beat. Their top-order have been amazing, and, amazingly, their fielders have…
HARARE – Unlike some people out there who have their tongues hanging out of their mouths in great anticipation of the muted “grand coalition”, I am standing right in one spot and will not budge an inch because I know the deplorable calibre of our politicians. To all of them, unity means “you join…
HARARE – Zanu PF officials are living in fear with some reportedly beefing up their security as warnings by a mysterious and influential Facebook character, Baba Jukwa seem to be coming true. As in-fighting in the ex-majority party intensifies ahead of elections, Baba Jukwa, a faceless character who has taken the nation by storm through…
HARARE – State prosecutors were yesterday left with egg on their faces after Harare Magistrate Don Ndirowei acquitted two human rights campaigners charged with forgery and conspiracy to commit fraud or publishing false statements prejudicial to the State. Magistrate Ndirowei acquitted Zimrights Director Okay Machisa, his workmate Leo Chamahwinya and ZimRights as an organisation, after…
HARARE – Kimberly Bhunu is slowly stepping out of the shadows of her big sister Valeria and is now making a name for herself in Zimbabwe junior tennis circles. Valeria is the country’s top ranked female tennis player. The 17-year-old Valeria got a scholarship to study at the ITF Training Centre in Pretoria South…
HARARE – Veteran radio and club DJ Davies Mugadza has consented to a garnish order for his child’s upkeep. This was after his former girlfriend Vimbainashe Ngara dragged him to the Harare Civil Courts. Although Ngara was not present during the hearing, Mugadza agreed to continue with the application in her absence. “I am not…
