HARARE – Aviation in developing Africa, compared to the rest of the sophisticated world, has been commonly, a frustrating, loss-making proposition; nay, a deadly undertaking by clueless, State-owned carriers. Many sane citizens never understand why their obstinate government would keep jettisoning good money via a perennially loss-making state owned enterprise (SOE). Government-sponsored aviation on the…
HARARE – World football governing body Fifa is “assessing” the situation in Zimbabwe following recent threats by the Government to dissolve the Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) board led by the embattled president Cuthbert Dube. On Wednesday, deputy Sports minister Tabeth Kanengoni-Malinga told parliamentarians that Government was on the verge of sacking Dube and his entire…
HARARE – As pressure mounts on Zifa boss Cuthbert Dube, former chairman Trevor Carelse-Juul has emerged as favourite to land the job in the post-Dube era. Dube was left on the brink this week after Government announced plans to sack him and his entire executive on charges of gross incompetence. The Zifa boss has come…
JOHANNESBURG – News coming out of Zimbabwe that the government intends disbanding the elected football body led by Cuthbert Dube only goes to show how the country’s ruling elite have lost touch with the reality and events on the globe. One Tabeth Kanengoni-Malinga is reported to have told the Zimbabwean Parliament that the government was…
HARARE – Rugby was not his first chosen sport, but at 22, Brighton Chivandire was already earning his third test cap for Zimbabwe against Wales. The powerful lock went on to earn 55 tests for the Sables, five for Zimbabwe Under-23 as well as playing in several Goshawks and President’s XV games. Chivandire, remarkably, did…
HARARE – Dynamos have completed the signing of Zimbabwe youth international striker Thomas Kadyaridzire on a three-year deal from Zifa Harare Division Three side Total Academy. Kadyaridzire, who turns 18, this June, will now begin training with the Glamour Boys’ first team straight away but his manager Gibson Mahachi has warned not to expect too…
HARARE – The propaganda war that has featured prominently in Zanu PF’s ugly infighting has gone a notch up with another faceless Facebook character in the mould of the controversial Baba Jukwa surfacing in recent months and dishing out even juicier and more damaging tidbits about the supposed goings-on in the ruling party. The intrepid…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe has been elected by his fellow heads of State to replace Mauritania’s Mohammed Ould Abdel Aziz as honorary chairperson of the African Union (AU) — a position which rotates among the continent’s five regions. This comes after State media reports yesterday that Western governments had been campaigning hard to derail…
HARARE – Pupurayi Togarepi, the Zanu PF youth league chairperson, insists former party bigwig Didymus Mutasa’s proposed disciplinary hearing will proceed whether he turns up or not. Togarepi, who is one of the six-member disciplinary committee set up by President Robert Mugabe to deal with Mutasa’s alleged misdemeanours, said the committee’s verdict would not be…
HARARE – Prominent preacher Emmanuel Makandiwa on Thursday handed over three classroom blocks, books and a borehole to his former school in Muzarabani. Muringazuva Primary School received donations worth $200 000 from the United Family International Church (UFIC) founder. Lazarus Dokora, the Primary and Secondary Education minister, said Makandiwa’s gesture was in line with Zimbabwe…
