HARARE – The Castle Lager Premiership match between reigning champions CAPS United and How Mine will go ahead as scheduled this evening at the National Sports Stadium after the national team released their players. The match kicks off at 7pm. The game was hanging in balance until last night as the Green Machine had three…
HARARE – Zimbabwe cricket team pushed Sri Lanka deep into the twilight overs of the day and can still exit Asia with their heads held high despite the four wicket defeat on the last day of the Hero Cup Test match at Ramasinghe Premadasain Stadium in Colombo yesterday. That it had their match target of…
HARARE – Pakare Paye Arts Centre in Norton, the vibrant arts centre established by Zimbabwe’s superstar musician Oliver Mtukudzi plays host to the stirring play Narratives from the Dark, starring visually-impaired actress Edith Masango as a solo act. The play premiered successfully at Harare’s Theatre in the Park on May 25 this year, and went…
HARARE – The market is anticipated to trend upwards in the near future as institutional investors invest in the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE), despite a lack of support from fundamentals, local analysts say. Equities firm, IH Securities (IH), said while the country faced prospects of firming inflation versus President Robert Mugabe government’s ballooning borrowings —…
HARARE – This week, the Environmental Management Agency gave manufacturers and users of polystyrene material up to three months to comply with Statutory Instrument (SI) 84 of 2012, which prohibits the use of kaylites. SI 84 had caused a major uproar countrywide, with manufacturers of kaylites and retailers raising the red flag, saying the ban…
CAPE TOWN – South African parliament and police are to provide security for an African National Congress (ANC) MP after a number of death threats against her. Parliamentary spokesman Moloto Mothapo said the decision followed a security assessment that confirmed “a security threat existed” against Makhosi Khoza. Ms Khoza has been a prominent critic of…
PARIS – The head of the French armed forces has quit after a clash with President Emmanuel Macron over budget cuts. Gen Pierre de Villiers said in a statement he could no longer “guarantee the durability of the army model” that he considered necessary to ensure France’s protection. France’s government last week revealed major cuts…
HARARE – It is often said that President Robert Mugabe hardly forgives nor forgets, but not when it has something to do with Didymus Mutasa — one of his longest serving confidantes who fell out with him after throwing his full weight behind Joice Mujuru, the former vice president who was hounded out of the ruling…
HARARE – Former Vice President and National People’s Party (NPP) leader Joice Mujuru laid into Morgan Tsvangirai yesterday, saying his July 31 deadline within which opposition parties must form a coalition was not feasible and that the MDC leader’s underlings were being overexcited. Mujuru told the media after signing an alliance pact with Gilbert Dzikiti…
HARARE – Government has proposed 60 years imprisonment for those who are found guilty of raping minors below 12 years of age, and the disabled. In a statement announcing Cabinet’s position on the matter, Information, Media and Broadcasting Services minister Christopher Mushowe said the proposal to amend the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform Act) [Chapter…
