No apologies for going back to Cool Beans coffee shop and diner for this week’ column. It’s a very welcoming venue and as a “coffee office” and informal meeting place it’s one of Harare’s best. It’s the centrepiece of Cresta Lodge on the borders of several eastern residential and commercial suburbs: Greendale, Msasa, Highlands, Eastlea…
THE referee has just signalled for a goal but one man in the stands is not happy with the decision during a Zifa Eastern Region Division One match last year. The visibly angry individual stands up while shouting, “Come on ref; that was a clear offside”. It’s clear that this person is not happy at…
THERE seems to be no player that epitomises how far DC Academy have risen in such a short space of time better than midfielder Devon Chafa. Chafa, who has seven league titles and several cups under his belt, is the academy’s shining light as he finds himself cast as the poster boy for a flourishing…
THIS time last year, Valentine Kadonzvo was at the centre of a protracted transfer saga between Harare giants Dynamos and Chicken Inn. The Glamour Boys had cleared Kadonzvo, who still had a year left on his contract, on the understanding that the winger was leaving the country for the United States to further his studies….
SOUTH African sisters Kira and Kayla Ribbink shone in the elite junior women category glossing all the glamour off Zimbabwe elite women debutant Laurelle Brown here yesterday. A 2012 Zimbabwe and Africa Junior Women champion Brown and Matthew Denslow were making their elite women and elite men debuts. Brown finished second in the three-elite women…
AS THE MDC cranks up the heat on President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his government to act on the country’s worsening economic rot, its firebrand deputy national chairperson, Job “Wiwa” Sikhala, says that he is being trailed by State agents, the Daily News On Sunday reports. This comes as political temperatures are once again rising in…
THE Zimbabwe Council of Churches (ZCC) has called for a different approach to tackling the country’s myriad challenges, including the worsening political and economic crises, the Daily News On Sunday reports. This comes as the ZCC and other local church groupings have joined the growing calls for dialogue between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and opposition leader…
SUGAR producer, Tongaat Hulett Limited, says local sales of sugar at its unit, Hippo Valley Estates were significantly impacted by low consumer disposable incomes which continue to lose value due to high inflation. Aiden Mhere, the Hippo Valley’s chief executive, said sugar sales for the six months period to September 30, 2019, were 11,2 percent…
IN THE pre and post-independence era jazz music was part and parcel of Bulawayo’s magnificent history. Back then, the inhabitants of Kontuthu Ziyathunqa could be easily identified by their insatiable love for the genre. Bulawayo’s historical halls such as Stanley Hall, McDonalds Hall, Mabutweni and Luveve Hall back then used to be a hive of…
SHOWBIZ practitioners contend Zimdancehall singer Soul Jah Love’s confession and call for spiritual help to overcome drug and substance abuse could just be a tip of the iceberg with medical institutions reporting that more than 290 000 Zimbabwean youths are hooked on drugs and substance abuse. Soul Jah Love’s plight recently trended on various media…
