HARARE – South Africa shrugged the proverbial monkey off their backs in fine style when they sent Sri Lanka crashing out of the World Cup with an all-round clinical performance at the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) in front of a 27 000 stunned crowd yesterday. So many questions, theories and suggestions were bantered about as…
JOHANNESBURG – Former tennis Grand Slam champion Bob Hewitt has been found guilty by a South African court of raping underage girls. Hewitt, 75, had denied two charges of rape and a third charge of sexual assault. The attacks took place in the 1980s and 1990s, when the former Australian tennis star was coaching the…
HARARE – Hundreds packed the Book Café on Saturday night to witness music legend Oliver Mtukudzi’s last show in Zimbabwe before he leaves for a long international tour. It was arguably the biggest crowd to attend a Book Café concert ever since the award-winning arts venue re-opened in 2012 at its Samora Machel base. So…
BULAWAYO – Popular songbird and dancer Sandra Ndebele launched her seventh album titled Izenzo during a well-attended and colourful ceremony at the Large City Hall on Thursday. The 10-track album features Jah Prayzah on the song Love yemShona leNdebele. Jah Prayzah attended the album launch. The other guest artistes on the album are urban groover…
HARARE – Contemporary musician Mr Lee, real name Leonard Chidziva, has released his debut album Zverudo, which comes with a rich Zambian flavour to it. The eight-track album titled Zverudo, recorded and produced in Zambia by CB the DJ, is dominated by love ballads that are getting rave reviews in Zambia. Mr Lee, who is…
HARARE – Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Zimbabwe declined from $400 million in 2013 to $372,6 million last year, as investors continue to shun the country amid a worsening economic crisis. According to the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) statistics released this week, the depressed FDI has worsened the country’s liquidity situation. “Net foreign direct…
EDITOR — I think it is high time that relevant authorities do something about the state of football in the country. Zifa has failed every soccer loving fan in the country. Jonathan Mashingaidze’s blunders are proving costly, on top of that there seems to be no blueprint to repair the damage. While we all know…
HARARE – While the decision by Thomas Meikles Stores to lay off about 150 workers countrywide was naturally met with resistance, their decision to pay packages upfront is highly commendable given that most companies which are retrenching have failed to pay off their workers. Zimbabwe is faced with an unprecedented wave of company closures and…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe yesterday said he was a worried and overworked old man, adding that he was having many sleepless nights as a result. Speaking at Kutama Mission’s Centenary celebrations in Zvimba, the frail-looking nonagenarian told the gathered current and former students that he had arrived late for the event because he had…
HARARE – As if determined to live up to his new nicknames “Absentee President” and “Visiting Leader”, President Robert Mugabe is expected to travel to Algeria today — a trip that comes soon after his visits to Singapore, Japan and Namibia last week alone. The nicknames have come amid accusations by Mugabe’s critics that he…
