HARARE – FC Platinum coach Norman Mapeza insists he is not getting carried away just yet despite his team’s perfect start to the 2017 Castle Premiership season. The platinum miners thrust themselves among favourites to wrestle the championship from CAPS United after starting their season with two straight wins. Mapeza’s charges opened their campaign with…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe yesterday used the burial of the late Brigadier General James Murozvi to reignite his feud with war veterans — who he bluntly said were not special — in addition to rebuffing their growing calls for the nonagenarian to step down now and pave the way for a successor. Most interestingly,…
HARARE – South African female triathlete Carlyn Fischer says she will take part in next year’s annual Bonaqua ATU Triathlon African Cup at Troutbeck, Nyanga after missing this year’s event. Fischer opted to miss this year’s edition held over a week ago as she took part in the ITU World Cup in New Plymouth, New…
HARARE – Parliament has called on police to curb the many unwanted roadblocks that they are mounting, saying they are terrorising both locals and international tourists. The call comes as police are also under intense pressure to discontinue throwing spikes at moving vehicles at roadblocks. At the same time, a new directive by Home Affairs…
HARARE – Dethroned World Boxing Council (WBC) silver welterweight champion Charles Manyuchi, who is yet to recover from a bruising defeat in Singapore, will know his next step when his managers arrive in the country this week. The visit by Manyuchi’s manager Chris Malunga of Oriental Quarries Boxing Promotions (OQBP) is meant to clarify the…
HARARE – The MDC has escalated its 2018 election campaign, with the Morgan Tsvangirai-led party deploying its senior officials to the rural areas to consolidate its support base in the countryside. The rural areas have been the stronghold of the ruling Zanu PF, where it has been garnering most of its support as compared to…
HARARE – Violence and a deeply chauvinistic society are locking middle-aged women out of politics in Zimbabwe, a new survey has found. The study, by the Research and Advocacy Unit (RAU), found that women are more politics averse than men. The polarised and often violent politics of Zimbabwe in the past two decades seem to…
HARARE – A gang of thieves that stole $5 510 from a dying woman who had an accident along the Harare-Mutare highway will spend one-and-a-half-years in jail. Enerst Jonga, 23, Sedrick Kachengo, 20, Innocent Gumbo, 17, and 21-year-old Kevin John of Matapi Flats in Mbare were convicted of theft after a full trial before Harare…
HARARE – At least 38 people have died from snakebites since January this year, Health ministry permanent secretary Gerald Gwinji told Parliament recently. This comes as the Meteorological Services Department (Met) has warned residents to be on the look-out for the reptiles which are leaving their natural habitat to invade residential areas due to the…
HARARE – The scores of hippos that have died in Binga since last week succumbed to a vicious strain of anthrax, the Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Authority (ZimParks) said. Villagers who have been feasting on the mammals’ carcasses could be in danger of contracting the deadly disease. The areas at risk are those along the…
