HARARE – Visiting Dutch football coach Jan Pruijn says Zimbabwe needs strong grassroots development programmes if the country entertains any hopes of establishing a prominent place in the world of football. The likes of Peter Ndlovu, Norman Mapeza, Bruce Grobbelaar, Benjani Mwaruwari, Newton Katanha, George Mbwando, Moses Chunga and Harlington Shereni are some of the…
HARARE – The late youth football stalwart, Onias Kadewere’s legacy still lives on after his Highfield Academy won the Youth Groups of Global Network for Right and Development (YGGNRD) tournament. Kadewere passed away in January this year and the academy is now under the guidance of his two sons, Pardon and Harare City striker Tino….
HARARE – Hosts Harare Sports Club got the better of bitter rivals Old Hararians 35-20 in a fiercely contested Northern Region Super League match on Saturday. Sportivo scored four tries through Denford Mtamangira, Kudzai Mashawi, McLean Muhambi and Takudzwa Francisco while the visitors managed two tries from speedy Tatenda Chowe and an impressive Courtney Mwatsiya….
HARARE – Victor Hungwe’s gamble of travelling to South Africa at the height of xenophobic attacks paid off after he won the IFBB South Africa contest in Midrand over the weekend. The Zimbabwe bodybuilder won his middle class category before going on to claim the overall prize for the contest to earn a IFBB pro-card….
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s poultry industry total chick production went up by 22 percent to 78,4 million birds in 2014 from 64,4 million recorded in 2013, a latest industry report has indicated. According to Zimbabwe Poultry Association (ZPA) chairperson Solomon Zawe, the broiler industry continues to grow from strength-to-strength and set new monthly and yearly records….
HARARE – The High Court has given struggling PG Industries Zimbabwe Limited (PG) the green light to continue with its scheme of arrangement with concurrent creditors, after its last attempt to register its debt repayment plan with the court hit a snag when a major creditor raised concern over the scheme. PG, which owes various…
HARARE – Atlas Mara Co-Nvest Limited (Atlas Mara) has given minority shareholders an ultimatum to sell their shares within six weeks to the United Kingdom-based company for $0,82 per share. This comes after shareholders holding 1,3 percent (3,34 million shares) of Pan African banking group ABC Holdings in November last year declined a mandatory takeover…
LONDON – It has become a common tendency to describe those who criticise the government as unpatriotic. In response to my article last week blaming the government for the predicament of our immigrants in South Africa, one commentator somewhat interpreted such criticism as self-hate by Africans. Such people subscribe to a notion of patriotism that…
HARARE – Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko’s ability to say unfiltered, whatever thought pops into his head, is his major undoing. He is like some crazy uncle. Everyone has one of those, right? From seeking to exonerate the current regime of any culpability relating to Gukurahundi, chiding his own party for fielding “lodgers and vendors” as…
HARARE – Former Hurungwe West legislator Temba Mliswa has said he is writing to the International Criminal Court (ICC) to have Zanu PF bigwigs Ignatius Chombo and Philip Chiyangwa tried for crimes against humanity. Addressing a news conference yesterday in Harare, Mliswa said because of the violence that Chombo and Chiyangwa were allegedly unleashing in…
