NEWLY-PROMOTED side TelOne FC secured their first win in the Castle Lager Premiership after edging Bulawayo Chiefs 0 – 1 at Luveve Stadium yesterday. Tafadzwa Sibanda scored the all-important goal for the Gweru-based side 11 minutes from full time and ensured that the WiFI Boys, who started life in the top flight with a goalless…
IT DOES not get any bigger than this when Highlanders host CAPS United at Barbourfields Stadium this afternoon. With the Castle Lager Premiership only kicking off last weekend, football fans are in for a major treat when these two giants of local football meet. [GoogleAd] Highlanders got off their 2019 campaign with a respectable 1-1…
FC Platinum……………………………….(1) 2 Triangle United……………………………(1) 1 LAMECK Nhamo punished his former paymasters Triangle United by scoring the winning goal for FC Platinum in yesterday’s intriguing Castle Lager Premiership match. [GoogleAd] With scores level midway through the second half after Ali Sadiki had opened the home side’s account before Triangle captain Ralph Kawondera equalised, Nhamo riffled…
THE University of Zimbabwe (UZ) is currently hunting for a new Vice Chancellor (VC) to replace Levi Nyagura, who was suspended in August last year for “fraudulently” awarding former first lady Grace Mugabe a Doctor of Philosophy degree (PhD). Nyagura is not going down without a fight. He is putting up a spirited fight in…
A Parliamentary panel has sought public comments on a draft Bill that seeks to extend and strengthen the supervision exercised over microfinance institutions. The Portfolio Committee on Budget, Finance and Economic Development will hold public consultations on the Microfinance Amendment Bill from April 8 to 11. [GoogleAd] “All those who will be putting on military uniforms,…
THE Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) says the spiralling cost of living justifies an upward adjustment in the minimum wage to US$600 (RTGS$1 800) to cushion the embattled worker. To push through its agenda, the union wants government — through the ministry of Labour and Social Welfare — to convene an urgent Tripartite Negotiating…
ZIMBABWE’s local currency, the RTGS dollar, has shed more than 20 percent of its value since its introduction as the availability of foreign currency on the formal market remains subdued. By Friday last week, the RTGS dollar had weakened to RTGS$ 3.0120 against the United States dollar, a 20 percent drop. [GoogleAd] Analysts attribute the…
RECENTLY, I was taken aback when I heard the Chief’s Council president Fortune Charumbira mocking local prophets for failing to predict the devastating Cyclone Idai which killed hundreds and left thousands of families displaced while all their livestock from cattle to goats were buried by the landslides. [GoogleAd] Charumbira, who is also a senator, made…
Zimdancehall chanter Soul Jah Love aka Chibaba says he communicates directly with God and does not need a church to intercede between them. These days, the Ndini Uya-uya hit-maker is moving on a gospel tip, preaching to his “congregants”; people who usually gather around him. [GoogleAd] He boasts that he is actually performing miracles. The controversial…
MDC vice president Elias Mudzuri will not be contesting Nelson Chamisa for the top party office as had been widely expected, after the two politicians agreed to work together to reduce tensions in the country’s largest opposition party. [GoogleAd] This leaves MDC secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora as the only presidential hopeful to challenge Chamisa at the…
