HARARE – The Zimbabwe senior women’s cricket national team left for South Africa yesterday for the 50-over Quadrangular series to be held in Potchefstroom. The series will see Zimbabwe, India, Ireland and the hosts go against each other in limited overs matches. Zimbabwe will get the chance to feel the turf on Thursday in a…
HARARE – Seasoned sports administrator Admire Masenda (pictured right)was yesterday re-elected as president of the Zimbabwe Olympic Committee (Zoc) with Kirsty Coventry coming in as the vice president following elections held at Prince Edward School. Masenda, who is now in his fourth term having taken over from Paul Chingoka in 2006 amassed 31 votes to…
HARARE – Dynamos coach Lloyd Mutasa was a relieved man after his side laboured to their second win in five matches while handing new boys Yadah FC their first defeat of the season in a Castle Lager Premiership match on Sunday. Defender Ocean Mushure scored the solitary strike after 34 minutes that took pressure off…
HARARE – Music legend Oliver ‘‘Tuku’’ Mtukudzi has collaborated with rising artiste Gary Tight on a yet-to-be-released song titled Inharo Dzegadzega. The two, who have had a close working relationship ever since Gary, 23, burst on the scene a few years ago, confirmed the collaboration via video. “We are at the studio listening to what…
HARARE – Police have warned both businesses and members of the public to be wary of gangs of armed robbers who have mounted a spate of heists, particularly in and around Harare — in a new crime wave that is targeting companies and homesteads. The warning comes as the dangerous robbers have also used detonators…
HARARE – A fresh row has erupted over the contentious matter of biometric voter registration (BVR) kits — with opposition parties now planning protests to force the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) to guarantee the security of data gathered during voter registration exercises. This comes as Zec has just completed the testing of BVR kits, which…
HARARE – A lawyer representing jailed rapist Robert Martin Gumbura’s wives in an alleged pornography possession case has slammed the State for infringing on her clients’ rights by keeping them on remand for more than three years. The women — including the cleric’s congregants — Choice Neganye, 32, Amadeus Mutakwa, 32, Rutendo Sekai Mandiya, 28,…
HARARE – Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa’s planned move to pay $1,1 billion towards settling Zimbabwe’s World Bank dues is “criminally irresponsible and treasonous”, former Finance minister Tendai Biti has said. He said the intended payment will be made on the back of a moribund economy characterised by massive deindustrialisation, absent aggregate demand, chokingly high government…
HARARE – Harare businessman Beadle Gwasira has donated sewing machines, as part of his $30 000 revolving fund, to a club of 30 groups of women in his Zanu PF ward seven in Mount Pleasant and where he is also a councilor. With over 200 people attending the handover ceremony in the capital on Friday,…
HARARE – Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has rallied suffering workers to go and register for next year’s elections — telling them it’s the only route to restore their dignity and values eroded by the current economic crisis. Tsvangirai, a former labour union leader during the 1990s, lamented the closures of factories and thousands of job…
