HARARE – Mashonaland successfully defended their Senior National Swimming Championship title at Les Brown pool yesterday. Mashonaland finished with 3 252 points followed by Matabeleland with 1 481 points while Mashonaland Country District finished on third position with 339 points. The champions dominated in both female and male categories, getting 1 689 points in the…
GWERU – Premiership returnees Chapungu fired early warning shots ahead of the upcoming season with an emphatic 5-1 win over Confederations Cup participants How Mine in a friendly match at Ascot Stadium on Sunday. Chapungu, who are making a return to the Premiership after a lengthy stay in the second-tier leagur, have been doing well…
HARARE – Zimbabwean athletes, sports administrators and ordinary people at the weekend gave cancer patients another chance to fight the scourge by taking part in the Husqvarna Mud Run in Harare. Close to a thousand people took part in the two-kilometre run at Innovate High Performance Centre in Harare with proceeds going to the Cancer…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe cricket team got into camp yesterday to begin preparations for the ICC World Twenty20 in Bangladesh next month. The 15-man squad for the tournament, which begins on March 16, was belatedly submitted to the ICC on Friday following a player strike that had put the team’s participation in doubt. Players have…
KAMPALA – Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni signed into law Monday a bill that criminalizes homosexuality. Museveni had gone back and forth about the controversial bill. Last month, Museveni said he wouldn’t sign the bill, describing homosexuals as “sick” people who needed help, not imprisonment. Then he backtracked this month and said he’d sign it because…
HARARE – Four Unki Mine workers were killed when a bus overturned early yesterday morning in Shurugwi, the platinum miner confirmed. The bus fell off a bridge as it was taking workers to Shurugwi and Gweru from the Anglo-American Platinum-owned Unki Mines — which operates in Shurugwi and about 350km south of the capital. The…
HARARE – MDC deputy treasurer general Elton Mangoma talks to Senior Assistant Editor Guthrie Munyuki. Below are the excerpts of the interview. Q: How do you intend to continue with MDC activities in the aftermath of your assault? A: The MDC was formed in 1999 as an avenue to achieve democratic change, socio-economic transformation and…
HARARE – The town of Marondera yesterday came to life as thousands of people from all walks of life thronged Rudhaka Stadium to attend a lavish 90th birthday party for President Robert Mugabe. Clad in a black suit, white shirt and a red tie, the suave Mugabe — who has ruled Zimbabwe since 1980 —…
HARARE – A crack team of Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) officers has twice raided the Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara)’s Harare offices, in a move widely seen as symptomatic of divergent agendas in government. This comes as Transport minister Obert Mpofu — a successor to Nicholas Goche — has said the roads manager had been…
HARARE – Trade between China and Zimbabwe grew to over $1,1 billion last year as the southern African country’s reliance on the emerging Asian giant grows. Lin Lin, the Chinese ambassador to Zimbabwe, last week said business traffic between the two countries ballooned from $310 million in 2003 to $1,1 billion last year. “According to…
