HARARE – The week-long 2017 Zimbabwe Francophonie Cultural Festival, which celebrates the diversity and richness of the French language and that of Francophone communities around the world, kicked off at various venues in Bulawayo and Harare on Saturday. The event is a commemoration of The Francophonie Week -— a festival of the French language and…
HARARE – CAPS United joined some of African football elite teams when they reached the group stages of the African Champions League at the weekend. Makepekepe defied odds by knocking DR Congo giants TP Mazembe out of the competition on Sunday in the final qualifying stage. Very few gave the Zimbabwean champions a chance to…
HARARE – CAPS United defender Hardlife Zvirekwi has hailed his team’s qualification for the African Champions League group stages describing it as a “huge accomplishment and the beginning of more great things to come”. The Green Machine defied odds to dump five-time African champions TP Mazembe of DR Congo out of the tournament courtesy of…
HARARE – Zimbabwe Cricket (ZC) hopes the establishment of the Rising Stars Academy will help turn around the fortunes of the national team in the future. The academy, a brainchild of convener of selectors Tatenda Taibu, was launched in Harare at the weekend with the emerging group of cricketers set to tour the United Kingdom…
HARARE – Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai yesterday told his supporters in Chitungwiza how he had survived numerous assassination attempts at the hands of Zanu PF goons — further assuring anxious Zimbabweans that change was inevitable after next year’s eagerly-anticipated national elections. Speaking for the first time since a shadowy State media columnist who writes under…
HARARE – It is dog-eat-dog in Joice Mujuru’s newly-formed National People’s Party (NPP) as officials jostle for positions ahead of an elective convention next month. Mujuru — NPP’s interim leader — will be uncontested as the party’s presidential candidate. However, according to a list of candidates and the positions that they will be contesting for…
HARARE – Local Government minister Saviour Kasukuwere has insisted that urban tollgates “are a necessary evil”, vowing to go ahead with construction of the plazas, despite fierce resistance by motorists. This comes as Transport minister Jorum Gumbo has distanced himself from the proposed urban tollgates, saying if they are to be put in place, they…
HARARE – Zimbabwe has an estimated 4 701 children living and working on the streets of the country’s major cities — Harare, Mutare, Bulawayo and Beitbridge — the Social Welfare ministry has revealed. Without clarifying how recent the estimates were, last week Social Welfare deputy minister Tapiwa Matangaidze said government had conducted a count in…
MUTARE – RivaI Zanu PF groups clashed at Checheche Growth Point on Friday, with police reportedly intervening to break the warring parties. Zanu PF Chipinge South MP Enoch Porusingazi blamed the skirmishes on fellow ruling party MP for Chipinge Central Win Mlambo, accusing him of trying to force through an unsanctioned meeting in his constituency,…
HARARE – Chief magistrate Mishrod Guvamombe has castigated the “unjustified” unnecessary postponement of cases, saying it leads to delays in justice delivery. This comes as lawyers have often complained about endless and willy-nilly deferment of cases by the courts. “Remanding and postponing matters must be justified in terms of the law,” Guvamombe said during the…
