HARARE – Local tennis players Benjamin and Courtney Lock experienced mixed fortunes during yesterday’s second round of the ongoing Zimbabwe F1 Futures Tournament. Benjamin struggled to overcome Portugal’s Vasco Mensurado 7-6(2), 6-2 in the second round to storm into the last eight of the $10 000 event. In the first round, the Florida State University…
HARARE – Despite having a poor 2014/15 season with the bat, Cephas Zhuwao remains committed to the Harare-based franchise this coming season. The left-handed batsman is currently making waves in the United Kingdom where he is playing Division A cricket for Budleigh Salteron’s in the Devon Cricket League. The Glen View bred cricketer last Saturday…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s top rugby playing girls’ schools are set to converge at Royal College this weekend for the third edition of Under-16 girls’ Rugby Invitational Tournament. Defending champions Vinona High School will be hoping to carry their form from last year which saw them beating Mabvuku High school 5-0 in the final to scoop…
HARARE – Chimurenga music star Thomas Mapfumo says the illegality of marijuana is an injustice because the ‘weed’ was created by God, according to his just-released biography penned by American ethnomusicologist and guitarist Banning Eyre. In the 362-page biography titled Lion Songs: Thomas Mapfumo and the music that made Zimbabwe published by Duke University Press,…
HARARE – Liberation struggle stalwart and spokesperson of the “original” Zanu PF that uses the slogan “People First”, Rugare Gumbo, says the only way positive change will take place in the country is if Zimbabweans agitate for this constitutionally but robustly from President Robert Mugabe and the ruling party — and not employ “empty boycott…
HARARE – Former National Healing minister Moses Mzila-Ndlovu says Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko is unfit to lead the country’s national healing process as seen in his alleged failure to come to grips with “his own Gukurahundi-era culpability”. Mzila-Ndlovu said Mphoko’s recent and controversial utterances on the massacres of an estimated 20 000 innocent people by…
JOHANNESBURG – South Africa President Jacob Zuma gave the African Union summit assurances that Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir would not be arrested, President Robert Mugabe has said. Responding to questions by journalists following the close of the AU summit in Sandton just before midnight on Monday, Mugabe said because Bashir was a wanted man, NGOs…
HARARE – A leading rights group has demanded that the Attorney General (AG)’s office publicly provide a timetable for realigning hundreds of pieces of legislation with the new Zimbabwe Constitution. At least 400 Acts of Parliament are yet to be aligned to the new charter two years after it was adopted in May 2013. Irene…
MASVINGO – Sex work is on the rise here, with desperate women who returned home in the wake of attacks on foreigners in South Africa resorting to extreme measures to deal with their financial hardships, civil society groups have warned. The attacks on foreigners — mainly from Zimbabwe, Somalia, Malawi, Mozambique and Nigeria — started…
HARARE – Ndumiso Gumede, the former Zimbabwe Football Association Football (Zifa) vice-president, is concerned with the way events are unfolding at the association. The veteran football administrator has called onto the Sports and Recreation Commission (SRC) to intervene before it’s too late. Gumede, one of the longest-serving Zimbabwean football administrators, and now chief executive at…
