HARARE – It has become common for indigent families to launch heart-wrenching appeals for funds to take relatives for medical treatment abroad. Most tear-jerking of these appeals relate to children. Recently, the family of five-year-old Natasha Sanyanga, launched an appeal for $100 000 to pay for a life-saving bone marrow transplant in India. The parents…
HARARE – The Harare City Council will tomorrow commence a slum clearance drive in this commercial hub and bustling metropolis with four million inhabitants. In 2005, over 700 000 people were evicted from the townships in another slum clearance drive dubbed Operation Murambatsvina. But eight years after Murambatsvina, the slums have sprouted everywhere again. It’s…
EDITOR — I would like to react to comments by the honourable minister for Lands and Rural Resettlement Herbert Murerwa that the country is facing an acute shortage of land surveyors hence the delay in issuing out 99-year leases to newly-resettled farmers. This is indeed true, but I must point out that while this shortage…
EDITOR — I applaud the government on their serious drive to rescucitate the agricultural sector and ensure food security for this country. Huge amounts of inputs are being distributed to families in most parts of the country and right in time for the farming season. I urge the government to also ensure that these inputs…
EDITOR — I recently had the chance to visit a relative at a State hospital in Harare. Notably the situation of the quality of food has not improved despite the dollarisation and the availability of food in this country. I wonder if the relevant authorities are deliberately saving food by making sure that it is…
HARARE – Some sportsmen are only remembered when their more famous siblings are mentioned, but Walter Musona wants to forge his own path and create a dazzling piece of history. And who can stand to say otherwise especially given the maturity the 18-year-old has shown in his short but eventful time in the Castle Premiership…
HARARE – After spending the entire week taunting champions Dynamos ahead of Sunday’s epic Castle Premiership clash, Triangle coach Gishon Ntini now labels the Harare giants title favourites following their workmanlike performance to emerge from the Lowveld on Sunday with a 2-2 draw. The record 19-times Zimbabwean champions showed fierce fighting spirit to force a…
HARARE – Newly crowned Mr Zimbabwe, Champion Chienderamwano, now wants to try his luck at the international IFBB contest after winning the country’s premier bodybuilding contest at the weekend. The Botswana-based bodybuilder won his heavyweight division while Walter Karimanzira, defending champion Tarirai Chirume and Darren Gabbler finished in second, third and fourth place respectively at…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe rugby team, which is camping in Bulawayo ahead of their Namibia tour, has paid tribute to Falcon College rugby player Martial Cripps, who succumbed to leukaemia in the city on Monday. 19-year-old Cripps lost his year-long battle with leukaemia to end a promising rugby career, which saw him play scrumhalf for…
BULAWAYO – The inaugural edition of the Masiyephambili Marathon was marred by confusion and a boycott by athletes at the weekend in Bulawayo. The event was delayed by over three hours as a number of leading runners wanted to know from the organisers how much was at task for each category. WINNER: Andrew Chimbidzai in…
