HARARE – Zimbabwe Draughts Association (ZDA) interim president Tinashe Chawatama says they are now working hard to ensure is recognised across the country as a professional sporting discipline. ZDA recently received a major boost after the Sports and Recreation Commission (SRC) approved their provisional registration. [Adz] At the moment, the interim committee is now working…
HARARE – Zimbabwe bodybuilders Edvaldo Mateus and Masimba Nyamajiwa acquainted themselves well in their maiden International Bodybuilding and Fitness Federation championships held in Taranto and Bari in Italy last weekend. Harare’s Oxygen Gym muscleman Mateus claimed gold in both events while his counterpart Nyamajiwa settled for silver in the two events as the local athletes…
HARARE – Organisers of Tanzanian music star Diamond Platnumz’s maiden concert in Zimbabwe, which will take place at the end of the month, are banking on the continental star’s popularity with women. Diamond Platnumz, who collaborated with Jah Prayzah on the hit Watora Mari, will share the stage with the Jerusarema hit-maker, Killer T, Ex Q,…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s embattled Zanu PF, reeling from its seemingly unstoppable factional and successive wars, as well as growing citizen unrest owing to its 36-year misrule, has pushed Cephas Msipa’s family to have the late national hero buried in Harare at the National Heroes Acre, rather than in Gweru as per his wishes….
HARARE – Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC yesterday gave another sneak preview of its resurgence as a major political force in the country, as well as its 2018 national elections strategy. It also said that it was leaving the door open for former party bigwigs — including Tendai Biti, Welshman Ncube and Elton Mangoma —…
MUTARE – Zimbabwe Activists Alliance (ZAA) founder Lynette Mudehwe and fellow activist Tapuwa Chitambo — who were arrested over a flier that claimed police brutality, lack of rule of law and political violence — have been freed. Magistrate Langton Mukwengi refused to have Mudehwe, 35, and Chitambo, 36, remanded further, as the State routinely pushed…
HARARE – Zanu PF youth league secretary Kudzanai Chipanga has controversially called for a total seizure of all remaining white-owned farms to resettle the ruling party’s youths. Curiously, his call is on the back of Lands and Rural Resettlement ministry commissioning a survey to ascertain land use following concerns that most resettled farms are grossly…
HARARE – Zanu PF will continue using State resources to fund party projects and will offer no apology for it, Indigenisation minister Patrick Zhuwao said. He was speaking at a Zanu PF rally in Norton on Monday where the party’s youth league secretary, Kudzanai Chipanga, parcelled out 5 000 residential stands to party supporters. “I…
HARARE – The whistle-blower in a match-fixing scandal involving former Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) bosses yesterday spilled the beans about how numerous games had been manipulated by the accused persons and soccer-betting cartels for monetary rewards. Leeroy Kundishora Waguta was testifying in the trial of ex-Zifa bosses Henrietta Rushwaya, Edzai Kasinauyo and Nation Dube who…
HARARE – The Judicial Service Commission (JSC) has begun the hunt for a new chief justice to replace retiring Godfrey Chidyausiku. Chidyausiku retires next year and his successor is set to begin his or her term of office on March 1, 2017. “The JSC announces that a vacancy of chief justice of the Republic of…
