HARARE – National Football Association (NFAZ) president Philip Chiyangwa yesterday challenged the men’s senior national team to win this year’s edition of the Cosafa Castle Cup which kicks off in Namibia on Saturday. Kalisto Pasuwa and his locally-based Warriors will fly out to Windhoek today where they will open their quest against Swaziland on Saturday….
HARARE – The history of sungura music cannot be documented fully without mentioning the name Shepherd Chinyani, but the artiste feels the industry he contributed so much to short-changed him and described it as a “thankless venture”. Joining local showbiz at a tender age, Chinyani discovered and groomed talents in legends such as John Chibadura,…
HARARE – Local actress Sandra Chidawanyika-Goliath will feature in Much Ado About Nothing, a Shakespearean play to be hosted by the British Embassy in Zimbabwe. It will be staged at number 9, York Road, Greendale in Harare on 16 and 17 July. [GoogleAd] The play is to mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death. Shakespeare…
HARARE – One of Zimbabwe’s largest supermarket group, OK, says it has taken steps to improve its profit margins through refurbishments and opening new stores to ward off stiff competition from other retailers. The listed company, which saw its profits tumbling to $0,7 million in the full year to March 2016 from $7,5 million a…
HARARE – A Zanu central committee member who has been behind the war veterans’ recent tour of the country, on a fact-finding mission, has admitted the governing party is divided along factional lines — something he said is a threat to the party ahead of the crucial 2018 elections. In an unsolicited interview with the…
HARARE – Tertiary education students in Zimbabwe have set up a new students’ union to rival the Zimbabwe National Students Union (Zinasu) and Zimbabwe Congress of Students’ Union (Zicosu), which they say are linked to political parties. The new union, going by the name Students Voice, was registered last month with the Zimbabwe Youth Council….
HARARE – Heartfelt International Ministries (HIM)founder Tavonga Vutabwashe has come out guns blazing accusing government officials of oppressing Zimbabweans but handling foreigners with velvet gloves. During one of his sermons at the weekend that has gone viral because of its boldness and rare combative mood from a man of the cloth, Vutabwashe argued that government…
HARARE – Wadzanayi Mabika who is behind the death of 17-year-old Harare Girls’ High School pupil Jocelyn Gomba yesterday pleaded guilty to all six counts levelled against him. The 41-year-old kombi driver — who ploughed into the schoolgirl a fortnight ago, before dragging her body under the vehicle — cut a remorseful figure as he…
HARARE – Only a day after bouncing back in office, Harare mayor Bernard Manyenyeni was yesterday suspended yet again, this time on corruption charges. Manyenyeni was suspended by Local Government minister Saviour Kasukuwere in April, after he had appointed ex-banker James Mushore to the vacant town clerk post and only resumed work on Monday. [GoogleAd]…
HARARE – As Zimbabwe continues on its downward spiral of the past two decades, usually circumspect church leaders are adding their voices to growing calls for President Robert Mugabe to step down, to give the country an opportunity to revive its fortunes. In an unexpected statement yesterday, that marked a radical departure from their usual…
