BULAWAYO – Former Zimbabwe Warriors coach Rahman Gumbo, has taken his former paymasters, the Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) and its incumbent president Cuthbert Dube to court to recover outstanding dues owed to him. In his application filed at the Bulawayo High Court, Gumbo seeks to compel the football mother body to pay him a total…
HARARE – Struggling Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) has engaged Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) to collect listeners’ license fees on its behalf from motorists. The latest Government Gazette carries General Notice 28 of 2014 which states that the Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe has appointed Zinara to collect license fees. “It is hereby notified in terms…
HARARE – Civil servants have implored President Robert Mugabe to walk the talk and stop making false salary increment promises. Mugabe, in an interview to mark his 90th birthday, said he was committed to ensuring that civil servants get decent salaries. The president further said he told Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa to pull up his…
BULAWAYO – Zanu PF has set up a Youth Orientation Programme here with a purpose to benefit youth with employment opportunities and teach them “patriotism”. Party youths and other interested individuals are expected to attend lessons at the party’s headquarters every Thursday. The youths are taught lessons on patriotism, democracy and the party’s achievements among…
MUTARE – Kingstone Mutandi, the Mutare mayor’s driver, has been fined $400 and a wholly suspended 6-month jail term for assaulting a fellow MDC councillor in the run-up to last year’s general polls. In passing judgment, magistrate Noah Gwatidzo said he had settled for a punitive monetary sentence as a jail term would have “completely…
HARARE – I have known Losson Mtongwiza for more than a decade now, and I have to say I have the greatest respect for the chap. Losson is a rugby man through and through, and for him to assume the position of Zimbabwe Rugby Union (ZRU) vice-president as a sprightly 25-year-old, as he did back…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Rugby Union (ZRU) has denied allegations of racism levelled against the association by national team manager Losson Mtongwiza. In a letter addressed to ZRU president John Falkenburg and leaked to local media, Mtongwiza alleged that a cartel of white individuals within the ZRU ranks was working towards pushing out all blacks…
HARARE – The Sports and Recreation Commission (SRC) says the establishment of the domestic franchise league was a contributing factor to the problems currently bedevilling Zimbabwe Cricket. SRC director-general Charles Nhemachena, speaking for the first time since the recent fallout between ZC and the players over a salary dispute, said “questionable governance practices” have contributed…
HARARE – Dynamos team manager Richard Chihoro believes the Glamour Boys have a realistic chance of progressing to this year’s African Champions League mini-league phase. DeMbare sailed through to the first round of the tournament courtesy of an impressive 4-1 aggregate win over Botswana champions Mochudi Centre Chiefs last month. Calisto Pasuwa’s men are now…
JOHANNESBURG – I might be thinking too far ahead of myself but since the prospect of Dynamos meeting Mzansi champions Kaizer Chiefs became a possibility in the African Champions League tournament, I have kept praying for such a blockbuster of an encounter becoming a reality. Amakhosi meet Liga Muculmana from Mozambique in the next round…
