HARARE – Eastern Region Division One Soccer League log leaders Buffaloes Junior dropped two crucial points that could have seen them win the promotion ticket at the weekend after they were held one-all by Ruwa United. With second-placed Mutare City suffering a 2-1 defeat at the hands of Eastern Stars at Sakubva Stadium on Saturday,…
LONDON – The Zimbabwe-born British European heavyweight champion Dereck Chisora tells the Telegraph that his money has not all come from boxing. Telegraph: How did your childhood experience influence your attitude to money? Chisora: I grew up in Zimbabwe and we didn’t have much. My dad worked away for the whole week as an engineer,…
HARARE – Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) has suspended acting chief executive officer Allan Chiweshe and general manager news and current affairs Tazzen Mandizvidza. The suspensions are part of disciplinary proceedings being instituted against suspended chief executive officer Happison Muchechetere and four members of his top executive management, over acts of misconduct, which prejudiced the State…
HARARE – Talent Ndlovu, 16, is an orphaned Form Two drop-out and she is pregnant. Tucked in rural Manana, an arid and marginalised region in Matabeleland Province, Talent lives with her 79-year-old grandmother, Regina Banda, and three other siblings. Her father was a mine worker and his measly income was barely enough to save beyond…
HARARE – Mutare’s Runn Family marked their second show in Harare in 15 years with a scintillating performance on the Book Café main stage on Saturday night. The veteran band, which last performed in the Zimbabwean capital city in April after being in limbo for over a decade and half, turned on the style in…
HONG KONG – China is building an island in the South China Sea that could accommodate the country’s first airstrip in bitterly contested waters, according to satellite images analyzed by IHS Jane’s Defence Weekly. Reclamation at Fiery Cross Reef on the western edge of the disputed Spratly islands is creating a land mass that is…
HARARE – Against all odds, songstress Cynthia Mare surprised music critics and fans alike by landing three awards at the Zimbabwe Music Awards (Zima) last month. But instead of generating positive media coverage for the rising singer, Mare’s winning of the Best Alternative Music Award, Best Single and Best Female Artiste gongs on the strength…
HARARE – Just when the bookmakers and even some within the Dynamos family had surrendered, DeMbare powered to their fourth successive Castle Premiership title in stunning fashion here yesterday. The flat money was on log leaders ZPC Kariba beating CAPS United to win their maiden title in only their first season in the top-flight. Kariba…
MUTARE – South Africa-based female gospel artiste Samantha “Samm” Torindoh is accepting menstrual pads as payment for her just-released album titled My Morning. The Mutare-born Samm, who lives with her husband in South Africa where she is a session musician on the gospel music circuit, told the Daily News in the eastern border city that…
HARARE – ZPC Kariba were left heartbroken after a complacent first half performance saw them fail to manage at least a draw with CAPS United here yesterday to win what would have been a remarkable Castle Premiership title in their debut season. With Dynamos only winning 2-0 against How Mine across town, ZPC only needed…
