HARARE – Half a million dollars has been invested in the repairs of the National Art Gallery of Zimbabwe. The gallery was opened in 1957. There have been no major repairs since. The curator, Raphael Chikukwa, said they were almost done and will be re-opening at the end of the month. “When I started working…
HARARE – Five elephants have died of cyanide poisoning since January as poachers continue to wreak havoc in national parks, a senior official has said. Jefferson Matipano, acting director of Zimbabwe National Parks and Wildlife Management Authority Parks (ZimParks), told the parliamentary thematic committee on Peace and Security yesterday that poaching was still rampant, with poachers…
HARARE – Human rights lawyers have intensified their bid to have 29 Chingwizi villagers arrested for public violence freed from detention after filing a bail application seeking their release. In their bid to liberate the villagers, the lawyers on Tuesday first challenged the lawfulness of their arrest and their subsequent detention, arguing that several of…
HARARE – Zimbabwe is withdrawing all peacekeeping personnel from Liberia where the Ebola has broken out, President Robert Mugabe has said. Mugabe cited the “increasing” spread of the deadly Ebola virus in the country’s decision to withdraw its uniformed forces on a UN peacekeeping mission in Liberia temporarily. He spoke as Liberian lawmakers gathered to…
HARARE – Zifa have disbanded the entire national side after the country’s failure to progress to the next stage of the 2015 African Nations Cup qualifiers. Appearing before Parliament yesterday, Zifa president Cuthbert Dube said the association will now build a new national team from the current Under-23 side. Zimbabwe were booted out of the…
HARARE – Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) chief executive Jonathan Mashingaidze yesterday told Parliament that during the peak of the Asiagate match-fixing scandal “journalists earned national team caps”. Presenting the Asiagate report before legislators at the August House, Mashingaidze claimed that Herald sports editor Robson Sharuko, former Sunday Mail deputy sports editor Hope Chizuzu and ZBC…
HWANGE – CAPS United yesterday missed a rare chance to go top of the Castle Premiership after losing 2-1 to Hwange yesterday in a controversy-marred match here. Eight CAPS players received yellow cards for over-protesting. Both teams ended the game with 10 men after Nicholas Alifandika and Aleck Marime were sent off for CAPS and…
HARARE – Two local cyclists riding across the 3 600km-long border of the country on an Anti-Poaching campaign sponsored by Dulys Motors were in Kariba yesterday and were hosted by businessman Ray Townsend – who runs a safari in the area. Ashley King and Linda Davidson were in the Gache area on Day 32 of…
ZVISHAVANE – FC Platinum coach Lloyd Mutasa has resigned from his post following a string of poor results. The Zvishavane side drew 1-1 with Bantu Rovers at the weekend, which saw them occupy sixth place with 25 points from 18 games. Mutasa, who was appointed last season but only took over fulltime at the beginning…
HARARE – South Africa didn’t just wake up one morning and found themselves the best Test cricket team in the world. It’s the fruits of hard labour, far-sighted planning and most importantly – the politicking that frequent big sports organisations like Cricket South Africa aside – there obviously has to be something good, administrative wise,…
