HARARE – Conflict in bands over remuneration can be reduced drastically if musicians comply with the Copyright Act, the Zimbabwe Music Rights Association (Zimura) has said. The call was made by Zimura director Polisile Ncube at a discussion dubbed “Zvemagitare/Band Matters” hosted by the Book Café on Thursday. Ncube told the discussion, whose other panellists…
LONDON – The other day I watched a horrifying video on Facebook, which captured a black woman, in Africa, being attacked by a group of ruthless black men. Their reason for attacking this African queen was that she was dressed inappropriately. Her walking with a male companion was not enough to ward off the thugs…
HARARE – When the 2015 Zimbabwean football season begins, just three players who were part of all four successive league titles under Calisto Pasuwa will still be with Dynamos. New coach David Mandigora has a great task ahead of him. He inherits from the revered Pasuwa a new look squad – with Augustine Mbara, Milton…
HARARE – Zimbabwe has confirmed its participation at the Hong Kong Sevens, along with 27 other nations, where 2016 Olympic qualification points and promotion to core team status will be on the line. The line-up for the 2015 Cathay Pacific/HSBC Hong Kong Sevens sees the tournament retaining its status as the largest on the HSBC…
CHITUNGWIZA – Ambitious Chitungwiza United Football Club are seeking additional sponsorship following their recent promotion into the Zifa Division Two League and keep alive their hopes of playing Premiership football by 2017 club chairman Cuthbert Razawo has said. Undeterred by hardships like travelling to away fixtures in a refuse truck, Chitungwiza United were promoted from…
HARARE – If Zimbabwe’s national football team was scheduled to travel to an Ebola-infested nation for a crucial qualifier, how many would raise up their hands for selection? The Ebola virus that broke out in Zaire (present day Democratic Republic of Congo) and surrounding areas recorded a human affection count of 315. It killed 254…
JOHANNESBURG – They say in modern society you have to mix things to get it right. Economically you cannot flourish in isolation hence the word global world. The same applies with football. No country can be successful by having its own philosophy without integrating it with the outside world. If you get isolated, you will…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe flew back from his long and controversial holiday in the Far East yesterday afternoon, and promptly made a surprise disclosure that he had left his increasingly influential wife Grace there due to illness. The nonagenarian said Grace was recuperating after having undergone what he said was a successful operation for…
HARARE – An angry President Robert Mugabe slated former Presidential Affairs minister Didymus Mutasa on his return from his long holiday in the Far East yesterday, branding his erstwhile lieutenant as “deranged, mad, little-brained” and “a stupid fool”. The nonagenarian was particularly scathing about Mutasa’s moves to try and get regional and continental bodies to…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s Meteorological Services Department has warned of flooding in Muzarabani in Mashonaland Central due to the heavy rains that pounded Malawi and Mozambique recently. Flooding in Malawi has killed more than 176 people, displaced at least 200 000, left homes and schools submerged in water and roads washed away by the deluge in…
