HARARE – Growing up in the impoverished dormitory town of Chitungwiza, Tendai Mashonganyika thought his only ticket out of squalor was going to be cricket. With rising unemployment, crime and drug abuse rampant across most of Zimbabwe’s poor communities, cricket became the only hope for many young men. Mashonganyika, a right-handed batsman, decided to follow…
HARARE – Mashonaland Central Cricket Association (MCCA) board elections ended in controversy again when for the second time William Chaitezvi was elected chairman on Friday. The first elections were held on July 18 with Chaitezvi, who is also Mashonaland West board member, and four others emerging victorious but the result was declared null and void…
HARARE – Paolo Maldini, Franco Baresi and Alessandro Costacurta are some of the names which easily come to mind when one speaks of the best defenders in the history of the most beautiful game. Not because they are Italian, or because they played for seven-time European champions AC Milan, but it is because they left…
JOHANNESBURG – The constant administrative shortcomings of the Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) are not only harming the game but doing the country’s already battered image no good outside its borders. It is high time every Zimbabwean takes stock of the country’s reputation and this includes the media, football fans, those running the game and most…
HARARE – Local football giants Dynamos, Highlanders and CAPS United were separated during the 2015 Chibuku Super Cup first round draw held at Zebra Bar in Mbare yesterday. The tournament first round matches are scheduled for the weekend of August 8-9 with the quarter-finals set for August 19-20. The final of the Chibuku Super Cup…
MOSCOW – The sight of vast amounts of banned foreign food being bulldozed, buried or burned is causing controversy in Russia. Tens of thousands of people have joined a protest petition to President Vladimir Putin. For the past year, Russia has banned most fresh produce from countries imposing economic sanctions against Russia over the illegal…
HARARE – Music superstar Oliver Mtukudzi and Dendera musician Suluman Chimbetu will share the stage at Kadoma’s Odyssey Hotel tonight in one of the biggest gigs in Zimbabwe this weekend. Before performing in Kadoma, Sulu will first perform at the HICC where he will share the stage with Jah Prayzah. Tomorrow the Sean Timba singer…
HARARE – Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor John Mangudya says the country is ready to establish a bond market. “The bond market would be an avenue for the intermediation process through the mobilisation of long-term savings and channelling them to the needy productive sectors of the economy,” he said in his mid-term monetary policy…
HARARE – MBCA Bank, a unit of South Africa’s Nedbank group, recorded a 42 percent surge in profit to $2,65 million in the half year to June 2015 from $1,87 million in the comparable period due to an increase in net interest income. MBCA managing director Charity Jinya said the financial institution’s operating income surged…
HARARE – The last time I heard a woman playing a saxophone was in Colombo, Sri Lanka, at a function sponsored by the Commonwealth Press Union, before Zimbabwe was booted out of that organisation in 2004. What was exciting was she was playing one of jazz’s classic titles, Paul Desmond’s Take Five. I have it…
