BULAWAYO – A second half header by Ozias Zibande was enough for Highlanders to edge Black Rhinos 1-0 in a Zimbabwe National Army charity encounter at Barbourfields Stadium here yesterday. Zibande struck on 54 minutes when he finished off a telling cross by Bosso anchorman Douglas Sibanda. The goal was orchestrated by impressive Peter “Rio”…
HARARE – A 26-year-old Mbare man who raped a three-year-old girl has claimed he was under the spell of evil spirits. Innocent Mapundo was jailed for 20 years by regional magistrate Fadzai Mthombeni who said the Judiciary would be failing in its duty if it did not impose severe punishment on persons who sexually abuse…
HARARE – Zanu PF legislator Edward Chindori-Chininga has presented a damming report to Parliament alleging theft of diamond cash and protesting the two-year barring of lawmakers from the Marange diamond fields. Chindori-Chininga, who chairs the parliamentary portfolio committee on Mines and Energy, presented the report on an inquiry eventually conducted between 2010 to 2013, following…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s male circumcision (MC) drive is throbbing ahead amid revelations that 15 134 men went under the blade in a five-week period to May 11, Health ministry officials have said. Sinokuthemba Xaba, the programme’s co-ordinator in the Health and Child Welfare (MoHCW) ministry, said the record turnout also surpassed their targets. “The success…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe and his former ruling party, Zanu PF, received a much deserved royal shellacking from regional leaders at the weekend. This followed Mugabe’s amateurish and ill-advised use of the country’s legal processes last week in his ongoing, but futile attempt to subvert Zimbabwe’s tentative march towards a more democratic dispensation. The…
HARARE – It is probably a generational understatement to say President Robert Mugabe and his ex-majority party Zanu PF cannot help stuffing things up and making mistakes. And just as well. One cannot imagine the mess that Zimbabwe is in right now if the dear leader and his conniving sunshine “comrades” would combine their unquenchable…
HARARE – Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and leader of the smaller MDC Welshman Ncube told President Robert Mugabe in an explosive meeting of southern African leaders in Maputo on Saturday to stop blackmailing the people of Zimbabwe by forcing through a sham election. The 89-year-old leader was embarrassed in Maputo, ironically the capital city of…
IRELAND – World leaders are gathering in Northern Ireland for a G8 summit set to be dominated by the conflict in Syria. UK Prime Minister David Cameron said he hoped the G8 nations would focus on “common ground” on the issue of bringing peace to Syria. But Russia, Syria’s key ally, opposes US plans to…
LONDON – Laughing at the state of Australian sport has become something of a, well, sport lately. Yet we should not indulge in the pastime without a certain degree of anxiousness. There remains the feeling that we must do it while we can, make the most of a rare opportunity, because tomorrow they’ll probably be…
MAPUTO – Egypt secured their place in the knockout stage of the 2014 Fifa World Cup qualifiers when they defeated Mozambique 1-0 at the Estadio da Machava in Maputo on yesterday afternoon. Mohamed Salah scored the only goal of the match in the 40th minute to help the Pharaohs maintain their perfect record of five…
