HARARE – An ambitious new generation made up of sons of established musicians has burst onto the Zimbabwean scene determined to bolster legacies crafted by their fathers. Unlike Suluman Chimbetu, Peter Young Igwe Moyo, Tendai and Morgan Dembo who ventured into meaningful music after the death of their fathers, the new crop of rookie musicians…
HARARE – Harare City assistant coach Masimba Dinyero is hoping his players do not get complacent when they take on struggling Chiredzi FC this afternoon. The two sides meet at Chishamiso Stadium in a Castle Premiership match pitting the division’s lowest ranked sides. City are just one place off the bottom of the log with…
BULAWAYO – Some of Tymon Mabaleka’s former teammates could not help but express their disappointment that at the time of his death, he was not involved in football. But after listening to the various testimonies on the kind of a person he was from various people whose lives he had impacted, it was clear that…
JOHANNESBURG – A few writers caught my attention this week following failure by African teams to advance past the second round of the ongoing 2014 Fifa World Cup in Brazil. One African columnist termed the outrageous and avaricious nature displayed by African players at the World Cup as both embarrassing and not projecting a good…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s sole representative at the Nomads SA Boys Under-17 Stroke Play Championship, Kieran Vincent, put up a courageous fight to finish third at Polokwane Golf Club on Thursday. Fresh from a Junior Golf World Cup appearance in Japan, Vincent was undaunted by the illustrious cast of SA’s top young golfers with his steady…
HARARE – Three local cyclists have teamed up with leading Zimbabwean motor company Dulys to stage a 3 600km ride along the entire border of Zimbabwe in an anti-poaching awareness initiative. Dubbed “Zim-boundary Cycle Challenge Against Poaching”, the gruelling ride, to take approximately seven weeks, is being funded by Dulys in an effort to raise…
LONDON – Luiz Felipe Scolari last night angrily claimed that Neymar had been “hunted” out of the World Cup after it was confirmed that Brazil’s star player has suffered a fractured vertebra and will miss the rest of the competition. A knee in the back by Colombia’s Juan Zuniga ended Neymar’s match in the 88th…
LONDON – Joachim Löw’s young Germany side beat France 1-0 thanks to first-half goal from Mats Hummels at the Maracana to reach the semi-finals of the 2014 Fifa World Cup yesterday. So many German players rose to the occasion last night, driving their team through to the semi-finals. Hummels blocked and scored. Manuel Neuer made…
HARARE – The cash strapped Zanu PF-led government yesterday increased tollgate fees by a whopping 100 percent — in a move that is likely to have ripple effects on prices of basic commodities as well as transport fares. According to the latest Government Gazette published yesterday, Obert Mpofu, minister of Transport, Communications and Infrastructural Development,…
HARARE – Ignatius Chombo, the Local Government, Public Works and National Housing minister, has warned that water polluters will face the full wrath of the law. The minister told journalists on the sidelines of the unveiling of 20 Homelux cluster houses in Harare on Thursday that the Environmental Management Agency (Ema) would on Wednesday present…
