HARARE – After watching a single training session from the terraces, former Prince Edward School student Tamuka “Teabags” Masamba totally fell in love with water polo. Having been a swimmer right from childhood, Masamba was fascinated by the sport and the next day he had joined his school team. As a strong swimmer whose favourite…
HARARE – Italy-based striker Salade Machemba’s ambition growing up in Zimbabwe was to earn big bucks and somewhere along the way enrol for an accounting degree to fulfil that goal . Well, that was before a five-a-side social match in Manchester landed him onto the radar of the Under-21 side of English Premier Soccer League…
HARARE – Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) has lifted the suspension of CAPS United board chairperson Lewis Uriri and appointed him to be a part of the playoffs committee following resolutions at a board meeting held in Harare yesterday. Uriri was slapped with a ban after an alleged breach of the provisions of Article 13 (a)…
ASCOT STADIUM – CAPS United are the 2016 Castle Lager Premier League champions. Fans yesterday buzzed with renewed euphoria after their team lifted the 2016 Castle Lager Premiership. Even if the queen of England was to make a surprise visit to Gweru yesterday, only a handful of people would have noticed, as CAPS supporters laid…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s struggling mining industry requires at least $5 billion to revive its waning fortunes, the country’s Chamber of Mines has said. The mining group’s chief executive, Isaac Kwesu, on Wednesday told a news conference in the capital that the industry was failing to attract new investments. “Our industry remains fragile notwithstanding output growth,…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s largest sugar producer Hippo Valley (Hippo) has recorded an 18 percent increase in revenues to $82,9 million in the half year to September up from $70,2 million in previous corresponding period in 2015. Hippo chairman Murray Munro yesterday attributed the growth in revenues to increased sales in the period under review. “Total…
HARARE – A panicking Zanu PF, fearing a repeat of its recent mauling in the Norton by-election, is going for broke in Chimanimani West, amid allegations that President Robert Mugabe’s warring ruling party has deployed the full mighty of its terror machinery there, ahead of tomorrow’s by-election in the constituency. “The situation is not good…
HARARE – As Zimbabwe’s economic crisis continues to deepen, impoverished university students around the country have pleaded for urgent intervention by both the government and the corporate sector to bail them out financially ahead of their end-of-year examinations which begin on Monday. This comes as thousands of students at various universities have failed to pay…
HARARE – Miss Tourism Zimbabwe is on tonight at the Harare International Conference Centre (HICC) where 15 beauties will battle it out on the ramp. The finalists who will be vying for the coveted crown are Ashley Morgan, Shirley Ann Lindsay, Nonhlanhla Dube, Sindiso Ndhlovu, Evermore Nyamangezi, Courtney Matende, Kudakwashe Chabaiwa, Gamuchirai Mutero, Laureen McIntosh,…
BULAWAYO – Over 70 Bulawayo-based artistes are expected to take part in the We Honour Our Music Legends Concert set for White City Stadium tomorrow. The gig, which will run for 16 hours, is being held in honour of living and late music heroes hailing from Zimbabwe’s second largest city. Main performers at the gig…
