WITH Zimbabwe’s top flight football return now imminent, local coaches are relishing the chance to sharpen their skills in a forthcoming course to be conducted by regional bloc Cosafa. This comes as domestic football got the greenlight to resume amid the Covid-19 pandemic after more than a year of inaction. Authorities gave the Premier Soccer…
A TEAM of Harare Amateur Swimmers (HAS) is set to leave the country today to participate in the South African National Junior Championships which will run between April 6 and 11 at the Kings Park Aquatic Centre in Durban. The swimmers in the travelling party are Tanatsirwa Chitsurura, Kalipengule Limbikani, Mkhuseli Mahobele, Jayden Malandu, S’busiso…
TWO Plumtree juveniles accused of murder are languishing in remand prison for a crime allegedly committed over a year ago as their case has been stalling at the courts. This was revealed when the two, who are accused alongside their uncle of strangling a 78-year-old Madlambuzi woman, appeared in court for a routine remand…
THE long-running legal battle between the Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) and former administrator Lazarus Mhurushomana continues to rage on after the former approached the High Court with another application. This time around, Zifa claim that although they have settled their debt to Mhurushomana, the veteran football administrator continues to disrupt their operations with numerous writs…
Tamary Chikiwain BULAWAYO A SUSPECTED copper cables thief is in a critical condition at Mpilo Central Hospital after he was electrocuted while trying to vandalise a 100kVA transformer in Pumula South in Bulawayo at the weekend. This comes as the power utility Zesa recently announced that it was losing US$4 million every year to theft…
A SUSPECTED drunken man found himself in trouble for allegedly stabbing a fellow imbiber after a misunderstanding over a US$1 debt. Tirivangani Makoni, 31, is now being charged with attempted murder after the alleged attack on David Nevanji at Solani Shopping Centre in Epworth. He was not asked to plead to the allegations when he…
BREEZE, an all-female musical group, seeks to empower and inspire women through music. Formed 14 years ago, the group based in the capital Harare, is made up of four key members Nyaradzo “Advocate Nyari” Maphosa, Melody “Mel” Mandisodza-Muvuti, Sharon “Sisi Shaa” Govha and Bekezela “Becky” Moyo. “The group didn’t specifically head hunt for women but…
THE main opposition MDC says it held fruitful discussions with European Union (EU) diplomats last week, who were led by the Head of Delegation in the country, Timo Olkkonen. This comes as the party is escalating its push for inclusive national talks and its philosophy of a new politics of “rational disputation” — as strife-weary…
THE Harare City Council (HCC) plans to introduce a road levy for residents as the local authority seeks to raise funds to rehabilitate its dilapidated road network. This comes after the HCC Department of Works noted that the $530 million allocated for road projects in the 2021 council budget falls far short of the required…
THE government has reduced royalties payable by artisanal and small-scale gold miners from two percentage points to one percentage point for 500 grammes of the precious yellow metal per month. This comes as the government is on a concerted drive to encourage gold deliveries to Fidelity Printers and Refiners (FPR), the sole official gold buyer…
