HARARE – Regional governments should broadly consult the public prior to drafting access to information bills so that such legislation is in line with international and regional best practices. Zoé Titus, Media Institute of Southern Africa, Misa regional director told a media gathering in Harare this week that such consultations should involve civil society representing…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s main opposition party says it has nothing to emulate from Zanu PF amid speculation that the Morgan Tsvangirai-led opposition movement is about to amend its constitution in order to deal with unending internal dissent. After weathering two coup attempts, one in 2005 and the other this year from former key leaders —…
HARARE – Congestion at the city’s commuter omnibus ranks will be over with the commissioning of the Coventry Road holding bay on August 5, the Harare City Council has said. The bay which has been lying idle since 2013 was constructed at an estimated cost of $500 000 and was supposed to have been completed…
HARARE – Gospel musician-cum pastor, Herman Chimusoro, who was recently acquitted on charges of swindling the police of $192 000, yesterday, said he was never paid for his work by the law enforcement agents. Chimusoro, who is a pastor with Lighthouse Church, said although he was now a free man, he was still struggling with…
HARARE – Halfway through the season, 16 games unbeaten, Castle Premiership debutants ZPC Kariba have refused to be modest and embraced the tag of serious title challengers. ZPC manager Partson Ndabambi this week says his team gladly “accept the tag” of title darkhorses following their impressive debut season in the top-flight. The debutants are the…
HARARE – It will be joy or despair as Zimbabwe face Russia this afternoon in a match they must win to keep their World Cup dream alive. Brendan Dawson’s men are undeniably up against the odds in the rugby-mad Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk where they will content with a partisan 25 000 home crowd at…
HARARE – Zimbabwe this afternoon step into the cauldron of the Central Stadium in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, for a crucial Rugby World Cup qualification play-off against Russia. Despite missing a couple of their regulars in their team, the Sables are in a buoyant mood that they can cause an upset and go on to reach their…
HARARE – Harare City interim coach Masimba Dinyero got his campaign at the helm of the Sunshine Boys off to the best possible start after seeing off Chiredzi FC 2-1 at Rufaro Stadium. In doing that, City only recorded their fifth win of the season. City, however, needed to come from behind after Scholar Hadebe…
JOHANNESBURG – Having disappointed at the recently ended 2014 World Cup, one would have thought Africa as a federation would take remedial action to put things into perspective. But a glut of recent appointments by most countries of the same old faces from Europe has underscored the mediocrity in which Africa wants to find itself…
HARARE – Jenny Waggot, the former Zimbabwe tennis ace, is saddened to miss her granddaughter making her debut at Harare Sports Club during next week’s ITF international tennis event. Waggot was a singles junior and senior champion for Zimbabwe, Rhodesia as it was then, on the very same courts of Harare Sports Club her young…
