BULAWAYO – Highlanders coach Erol Akbay says he will not rush to include the club’s newly-graduated Under-20 players into first team action as the 2016 season beckons. Most Bosso fans were impressed by the performances of the club’s junior players during a pre-season friendly against newly-promoted side Bulawayo City. The likes of Prince Dube, Adrian…
HARARE – Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) president Philip Chiyangwa has been appointed to the Cosafa Marketing Committee. Zifa board member for finance Philimon Machana was also appointed to the regional football body’s Finance Committee. In a March 7 letter to Zifa CEO Jonathan Mashingaidze, Cosafa general secretary Sue Destombes confirmed the appointments of the two…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s judokas acquainted themselves well when they beat their Malawian counterparts during a tournament held to prepare for the Southern Africa Youth Games later this year. The Judo Association of Zimbabwe (Jaz) Under-20 side won three gold, two silver and two bronze medals while their Malawian counterparts managed two silver medals and a…
HARARE – Karateka Tungamirai Madzimbamuto was the toast of the Zimbabwe Karate Union (ZKU) delegation after winning a gold medal at the 5th Matlosana Cup in Klerksdorp, South Africa over the weekend. The Zimbabwe delegation travelled by road to South Africa but managed to shake off the fatigue caused by the long journey to win…
HARRE – Disability, HIV and Aids Trust (DHAT) last this month held a stakeholders dialogue in Harare on service delivery for persons living with visual and hearing impairments under the banner: ‘Leaving no one behind: where is disability in health service delivery, let’s talk about it’. DHAT country co-ordinator Hamida Ismail Mauto told participants from…
HARARE – Intratrek Zimbabwe (Intratrek) and Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) have signed a deal to construct a $128 million hydro plant to help address the country’s chronic power shortages. The water-powered Gairezi Hydropower Dam project will generate 30 megawatts (MW) of electricity. Intratrek, which won the tender in conjunction with its Indian Consortium partners Bharat…
HARARE – Zimbabwe is going through one of its worst droughts in decades and information released last week which showed that close to three million people are staring hunger in the face should be a wake-up call to the government. Many experts have rated this year’s drought as the worst in 25 years. This drought…
EDITOR — To think we are faced with severe problems due to the drought and here all our top officials spend all their time fighting one another shows clearly that the one and only thing they care about is themselves. I very much doubt whether any of them will suffer from the effects of this…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s platinum output is expected to surge 12 percent to 430 000 ounces (oz) on the back of the completion of an expansion project at the country’s biggest mine, Zimplats, the World Platinum Investment Council (Wpic) has said. According to Wpic’s sixth quarterly report titled Platinum Quarterly Q4 2015, the authority on the…
BULAWAYO – Celebrated South Africa-based guitarist and vocalist Louis Mhlanga, who lit up the Harare Jazz Festival in September last year, is returning to Zimbabwe as part of a tour that will take him to five southern African countries. The Zimbabwe-born guitar wizard, who is touring with Malagasy accordionist Régis Gizavo, will kick off the…
