HARARE – Top politicians in President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF have been accused of seizing the majority of gold mine claims from small-scale miners in Mashonaland Central Province. This emerged in Shamva during a tour by Parliament’s portfolio committee on Mines and Energy which started on Tuesday and is ending tommorrow. The committee, chaired by…
HARARE – There is no separating Dynamos and CAPS United it seems. The two Harare giants were drawn together in the first round of the new One Wallet Cup yesterday. Barely a week after the two clashed in the first instalment of the Harare derby last weekend at the National Sports Stadium, the two teams…
HARARE – Zimbabwe Cricket (ZC) has revealed a list of 21 players for the 2014-15 season, handing central contracts to 15 players up from 10. Eight players – Tendai Chatara, Shingi Masakadza, Sikandar Raza Butt, Regis Chakabva, Tinotenda Mawoyo, Tinashe Panyangara and Natsai M’Shangwe – earn central contracts for the first time while Donald Tiripano,…
HARARE – Churchill High School and Mzilikazi will chase an unprecedented fifth Copa Coca-Cola title this weekend when at least 264 budding footballers from 24 high schools descend on the capital Harare. The youth football fiesta will roll into action on Saturday at the Zimbabwe Grounds amongst various venues before culminating in the finals at…
HARARE – Zimbabwe will play their first three-match Test series in more than 13 years when they tour Bangladesh in October later this year. They last played three Tests against Sri Lanka in December 2001.For Bangladesh, this will mark the third time that they have played three Tests in a series since becoming a Test…
HARARE – The Schools Hockey Northern Region A League has named seven schools which qualified for the National Super 12 tournament to be held in Bulawayo early next month. With only one game left before the end of the season, St George’s College, Hellenic Academy, Eaglesvale, St John’s College, Peterhouse, Hillcrest and Churchill have managed…
HARARE – Regis Chakabva and Timycen Maruma gave selectors plenty to ponder with impressive half centuries in Zimbabwe A’s seven-wicket win over touring Afghanistan in a warm-up match in Bulawayo on Tuesday and have been recalled to the national side. Zimbabwe A captain Chakabva was unbeaten on 72 from 83 balls in a knock that…
MIDDLEBURG – The Zimbabwe Under-18 rugby team’s woeful Craven Week continued to unravel as they suffered their second defeat, going down 26-20 to Griquas Country District in a bruising encounter here yesterday. The Young Sables were their own enemies, struggling at most set pieces especially at line-out time, were hooker Bradley Crause failed to find…
JOHANNESBURG – Metal thieves in South Africa have stolen nearly 10km (6 miles) of working railway track, causing about $2.3m (£1.3m) of damage, it’s emerged. Chunks of track were stolen over the course of several months from a line used to take trains from Johannesburg to a depot in the town of Nigel, The Star…
GENEVA – There is a chance the Aids epidemic can brought under control by 2030, according to a report by the United Nations Aids agency. It said the number of new HIV infections and deaths from Aids were both falling. However, it called for far more international effort as the “current pace cannot end the…
