HARARE – Listed brick-making firm Willdale’s net loss widened to $380 564 in the six months to March 2017, from $146 575 recorded prior comparable period on the back of heavy rains that damaged the company’s furnaces. While the first half had been depressed, turnover increased 14 percent to $4 million driven by a 20…
HARARE – Zimdancehall chanter Soul Jah Love was last week dressed down in Mutare at a Zanu PF rally addressed by President Robert Mugabe. Soul Jah Love, who was set to perform at Mugabe’s meet-the-youth-rally, was left with egg on the face after Zanu PF youth leader Innocent Hamandishe openly dressed him down in front…
HARARE – Veteran musician Steve “Dhongi” Makoni will meet Kireni Zulu in what is expected to be an explosive encounter at City Sports Bar in the capital tonight. The two will also share the stage with Pamela Zulu aka Gonyeti, Kessia aka Muchaneta, Chief Hwenje, Dzvoti, Junior Vybz, Landmine Madongonda, Tambaoga, Appie T, Progress Chipfumo…
HARARE – The late music star Dickson Chingaira aka Cde Chinx’s songs stimulated both Zanla and Zipra fighters into action and helped mobilise the masses into an incredible resistance population, Zanu PF party spokesperson Simon Khaya Moyo has said. Moyo, in a condolence message said: “The death of Cde Chinx last Friday has robbed his…
GWERU – Domestic football yesterday hit another all-time low after the Castle Lager Premiership match between Chapungu and Dynamos was abandoned after one of the goalposts at Ascot Stadium collapsed. The home side’s goalkeeper Talbert Shumba crashed against the upright in the 56th minute as he tried to deal with a shot from DeMbare midfielder…
BULAWAYO – A new-look Highlanders side produced a sterling performance to dispatch 10-man Hwange 3-0 in a Castle Lager Premiership match at Barbourfields Stadium yesterday. After the chastening 3-0 midweek defeat to Black Rhinos, Bosso coach Erol Akbay chose to give young players Brian Banda, man-of-the-match King Nadolo and Godfrey Makaruse a start ahead of…
HARARE – Harare City coach Philani “Beefy” Ncube feels there is still room for improvement after his charges continued their march with a deserved 2-0 victory over Triangle in a Castle Lager Premiership match yesterday. An own-goal by Triangle skipper Guthrie Zhokinyu and a second half William Manondo header was all the Sunshine Boys needed…
HARARE – Sportivo handed newboys Mutare Sports Club (MSC) their first defeat of the 2017 Intercity Rugby League season following a 51-3 hiding at Harare Sports Club on Saturday. The home side ran in eight tries of which four were converted and a single penalty during a lopsided encounter. Takudzwa Kumadiro scored three tries, Lucky…
HARARE – While many describe Arthur Mutambara as a political opportunist, others credit him for pioneering student activism but very few will disagree that the garrulous robotics professor has an abundance of wit. It is little wonder why the former student leader who later became the deputy prime minister in the shaky government of national…
HARARE – As black Zimbabweans fought their last battles against the colonial Ian Douglas Smith-led Rhodesia Front (RF) in the 1970s, music had become part of the revolution. In the rural areas, the masses would gather during the night for all-night pungwes (open-air political meetings) where freedom fighters educated them about the war, as well…
