WARRIORS coach Zdravko Logarusic has defended his decision to field fringe players in the final Group H qualifying round match against Zambia at the National Sports Stadium on Monday. The match played under floodlights at the giant football stadium ended 0-2 in favour of the visitors after Red Bull Salzburg forward Patson Daka scored in…
THE trial of Zifa president Felton Kamambo, who is accused of vote buying, is set to continue on Friday. Kamambo is facing 32 counts of bribery following accusations of offering various amounts of money to Zifa councillors to vote for him during the 2018 Zifa presidential election. Yesterday, the matter was postponed as his lawyer…
THE Zimbabwe Chess Federation (ZCF) is scheduled to host the Easter Chess Open championships, their first local event since the government lifted the ban on sport recently. Tentatively the event kicks off on Friday and will run until April 4 at two venues in the capital ― Club Chambers along Third Street and the Members’…
GOSPEL musicians have hit out at the adjudicators of the National Arts Merit Awards (Nama) Legends @ 40 list for excluding them. The National Arts Council of Zimbabwe (Nacz) recently honoured 40 living legends of the cultural and creative sector. The list included pioneers, innovators and consistent contributors in fields such as the manufacturing of…
GOSPEL musician Sebastian Magacha, pictured, has promised an enthralling act on Saturday at this year’s edition of the Worship Experience Virtual Concert where he will be among supporting acts to legendary South African musician Benjamin Dube. The concert, which was called off at the eleventh hour late last year due to Covid-19 regulations, will also…
SANITARY Aid Zimbabwe Trust (SAZT) has called on the government to urgently provide funds for prisons to procure sanitary wear for inmates. This comes as a recent tour of Zimbabwe’s prisons revealed that female inmates were struggling to cope with their menstrual cycles as the facilities do not offer them any sanitary wear. The vote…
SIX human rights activists accused of receiving training on how to subvert President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government in the Maldives have sued Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe for a combined US$300 000. The six — Rita Nyampinga, Sitabile Dewa, Nyasha Mpahlo, Tatenda Mombeyarara, Gamuchirai Mukura and George Makoni — cited Kazembe and police commissioner-general Godwin Matanga…
Tamary Chikiwain BULAWAYO A BULAWAYO woman has appeared in court for assaulting her father’s girlfriend and damaging property worth $6 000. Sasha Zulu, 21, of Makokoba allegedly assaulted Agatha Gumede, 57, demanding money to buy diapers for her child. Zulu was charged with physical abuse and malicious damage to property when she appeared before the…
A SUSPECTED female drug dealer from Chitungwiza was recently arraigned before the courts after she was allegedly caught with crystal methamphetamine (mutoriro) worth $54 000. Tabeth Chakabveyo, 20, who was represented by lawyer Tapiwa Munodawafa, was charged with dealing in dangerous drugs and was remanded out of custody to April 6 on $10 000 bail…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa will this week impose Covid-19 Easter and Independence holidays measures to curb the spread of the lethal coronavirus, Information minister Monica Mutsvangwa, pictured, said last night. This comes amid fears the holidays could become Covid-19 super spreaders if complacency is allowed to creep in. It also comes after the government has so…
