HARARE – The postponement of the Musclemania Zimbabwe contest has left the National Federation of Zimbabwe Bodybuilding and Fitness Association (NFZBBF) battling to encourage women participation in the sport. Musclemania Zimbabwe is a privately run bodybuilding that has been consistent with offering lucrative prizes since its inception in 2011 and was scheduled for August 9…
LONDON – When Usain Bolt turns up at an international sporting event, there is usually only one question in the minds of athletes and fans alike: just how quickly will the world’s fastest man run this time as he cruises to the gold medal? But Glasgow 2014 is different. Bolt arrived at the weekend, but…
LONDON – Luke Shaw is currently “not fit” enough to do what Louis van Gaal demands of him, with the Manchester United manager devising a special programme for the left-back to reach the levels required. During training at Washington’s FedExField in the run up to yesterday’s meeting with Internazionale, Shaw trained away from the squad…
LONDON – It won’t be surprising if cultural historians look back on the first two decades of this century as The ”Era of food craze”. I am speaking of the fetishisation of food, of cooking and eating, of watching other people cooking and eating that has become omnipresent across all platforms and media. We have…
MONROVIA – Liberia has suspended all football activities in an effort to control the spread of the deadly Ebola virus. There was a risk of infection because football is a contact sport, the football association said. The number of people killed by the virus in West Africa has now reached 672, the WHO says. Ebola…
TEL AVIV – More than 100 Palestinians are said to have been killed after Israel intensified its bombardment of Gaza and warned of a long conflict ahead. Gaza’s only power plant caught fire as Israel carried out 60 air strikes, targeting sites associated with Hamas, the Islamist group which controls Gaza. UN staff members are…
HARARE – The Manicaland Show of the Arts (Manisa) awards ceremony held at the National Art Gallery in Mutare last week should inspire other provinces to take a similar route. Encouragingly, both the provincial awards ceremony and the associated annual exhibition attracted an impressive list of 45 senior artists and over 100 school children from…
HARARE – On Thursday, it will be exactly a year since Zanu PF claimed controversial victory in elections that ended the coalition government. During the tenure of the Zanu PF-MDCs consortium, President Robert Mugabe was impatiently eager to end the life of what he sneeringly described as “this creature”. Zanu PF felt manacled by an…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) will continue issuing garnishee orders to companies that evade tax, Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa has said. He told Parliament last week that “Zimra’s mandate is tax collection and the revenue collector will do all it can to fulfil this mandate. “Although Cabinet has not deliberated on Zimra garnishee…
HARARE – Financial group Tetrad Holdings Limited (Tetrad) losses widened to $11,8 million in the half year to March 2014 from $2,9 million incurred in prior comparable period. The group’s banking unit Tetrad Investment Bank (TIB) was the worst performer, contributing $10 million to the total loss. During the period under review, TIB recorded a…
