BULAWAYO – Chicken Inn will be out to complete a double over their more illustrious city neighbours Highlanders when the two teams clash in a Castle Premiership reverse fixture at Barbourfields Stadium on Sunday. The Gamecocks beat Bosso 1-0 in the first half of the season through a Kudakwashe Mahachi strike and their head coach…
BULAWAYO – The Southern Region Division One League takes a breather this weekend to make way for the Machache Meats Tournament which is now in the quarterfinal stage. Former Premiership side Quelaton will play police outfit Black Boots on Saturday at Luveve Stadium in the only encounter that will be played in Bulawayo. Quelaton booked…
HARARE – Ousted Big Brother Africa housemate Hakeem Mandaza says his supposed loathing of fellow Zimbabwean Pokello Nare on Africa’s most popular reality show was a strategy to fool the other contestants. The Zimbabwean muscleman, who had a relationship with Zambian Cleo, claimed upon arrival on Wednesday afternoon that getting friendly to Pokello would have put…
HARARE – Children from various institutions will converge at the Kabin in Kensington, Harare, for a three-day arts and skills workshop during the August holidays. Dubbed Kids In front of the Camera (Kifoc), the workshop which will run from August 5 to 7, will focus on developing children’s communication, interaction and arts skills. Kifoc coordinator…
HARARE – At least 53 commercial sex workers arrested on Friday morning have been placed on initial remand after failing to raise $100 fine or the $200 bail. The women were arrested under a police operation code–named “Operation Zvanyanya” aimed at flushing out sex workers from the Avenues area and lodges in the city centre….
HARARE – A Chinamhora man who alleged that President Robert Mugabe killed many people appeared before a Harare magistrate on Wednesday. Noah Maphosa, was lucky to be released on $50 bail after being hauled before magistrate Anita Tshuma. He is to return to court on July 23. It is the State’s case that on July…
HARARE – Abel Chikomo, the executive director of the Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum, has been summoned to stand trial on charges of running an “unregistered” organisation. Chikomo was served with summons by two police officers only identified as Detective Gandidzanwa and Chipwanya to stand trial on August 1 at Harare Magistrates’ Courts. According to…
HARARE – Russian firm ALROSA is planning to establish diamond mining operations in Zimbabwe. The group — one of the largest diamond miners in the world, producing 34,4 million carats in 2012 and sales totalling $4,61 billion — said it has approved creation of joint ventures for geological prospecting in the gem-rich southern African nation. Its…
MADAGASCAR – Zimbabwe can once again be a great rugby-playing nation. We have the talent, the passion and determination to make it happen. Unfortunately, like many institutions in the country, rugby has suffered from the ongoing instability in our social, political and economic environment. Currently our clubs and the union are run on shoe-string budgets…
HARARE – We have since gone beyond bullets and rockets. This is a battle of the minds; a battle of policies, ideas and concepts. We are looking at brains and not brawn. We are not going to explode bombs and mortars. No. The armed liberation struggle is over. It was bravely fought by the gallant…
