HARARE – Amakhosi founder Cont Mhlanga was honoured in Harare on Thursday by the Embassy of Netherlands for landing the 2015 Prince Claus Award. The award is bestowed annually on individuals, groups and organisations in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean that excel in the field of culture and development. For winning the gong,…
HARARE – The Doris Lessing Special Collection, which comprises more than 3 500 books from the private collection of the Nobel Prize-winning author, was unveiled at Harare City Library on Wednesday. Following her death in late 2013, the collection of books were donated to the Harare City Library by the late celebrated author’s family. Most…
BULAWAYO – Protest actor Sylvanos Mudzvova will take his one-man play titled Missing Diamonds: I Want My Share to Bulawayo on May 5. Mudzvova, who was briefly arrested two weeks ago just six minutes into the performance of the political satire outside Parliament, is coming thanks to the support availed by Nhimbe Trust in conjunction with …
HARARE – Dynamos forward Roderick Mutuma has vowed to score and silence his former club CAPS United when the two teams meet in the latest edition of the Harare derby at Rufaro Stadium tomorrow. The former Bloemfontein Celtic forward joined CAPS United at the start of last season only to perform a summersault to rejoin…
HARARE – The Warriors were on Thursday night drawn in a relatively fair Group A of the first round of the 2016 Cosafa Castle Cup. Zimbabwe will face Swaziland, Madagascar and Seychelles for the tournament set for Namibia in June. Kalisto Pasuwa’s side must top the group in order to reach the quarter-finals of the…
HARARE – When the West Indies won the 2016 ICC World T20 trophy it was against the odds; a master-class show by Carlos Brathwaite in the final over against England. A display of desire, skill and enormous self-belief. What that didn’t show is a team let down by its West Indies Cricket Board (WICB), written…
JOHANNESBURG – They say two things which have a close relationship are football and politics. It is no wonder why those in football don’t want politicians to be involved in the running of the game and vice-versa. What is interesting though is that you cannot separate one from the other; somehow, the two are inter-linked….
HARARE – Former Vice President Joice Mujuru has laughed off what she says are “desperate attempts” by President Robert Mugabe’s deeply-divided Zanu PF to silence her and other opposition parties through the continued use of thuggish tactics. As the clock ticks inexorably towards what promises to be watershed national elections in 2018, the Zimbabwe People…
HARARE – Teachers in rural and peri-urban areas are having to teach combined classes of as many as 100 pupils as the government policy of allocating educators according to the number of students at a school has backfired. Marginalised children in rural and peri-urban government run primary schools where teachers’ multi-task between Early Childhood Development…
HARARE – The sacking of Jonathan Mashingaidze as Zifa chief executive officer this week, which many football followers thought was long overdue, was greeted with a resounding consensus by most stakeholders. For many years, Mashingaidze — together with previous Zifa president Cuthbert Dube — had turned the association into their personal property. The two often…
