Sheasham, Simba Bhora and Green Fuel could play home games at alternative venues THE Castle Lager Premier Soccer League’s newly-promoted sides face the prospect of playing their home games at alternative venues at the start of the season as refurbishment works at their preferred home stadia for the top flight campaign are yet to be…
ZIMBABWE’S latest girl wonder, Kudakwashe ‘‘Take Money’’ Chiwandire, is two weeks away from the biggest match and challenge of her boxing career so far — a World Boxing Council (WBC) Women’s Super bantamweight title fight against current champion Yamileth Mercado of Mexico. When Take Money steps into the ring at the 10 000-capacity Gimnasio Manuel…
By Rutendo Ngara THE European Union (EU) has committed €207 million to Zimbabwe to support smart agriculture in the country and promote national food security. Speaking in Harare yesterday, EU head of delegation in the country, Jobst Von Kirchmann said Zimbabwe is one of the countries bearing the brunt of climate change and there was…
By Yvonne Ncube AUTHORITIES in Matabeleland South province have called on the government to intervene in stopping the fast-spreading child-to-child marriages in the region. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday on the sidelines of the Dabane Trust meeting organised by villagers in Tshilanyemba, ward 7 councillor Sitshengisiwe Ndlovu said what was worrying was that the…
By Rutendo Ngwenya LEADING food processor, National Foods Limited (NFL), yesterday donated food stuff worth thousands of dollars to four children charities in Harare. The four beneficiaries were Runyararo Orphanage, Homefield Centre, Ruvimbo Special School and Felly Orphanage. Each organisation received rice, mealie-meal, porridge, popcorn, sugar beans, baked beans, biscuits and flour, among other items….
WITH the cost of living continuing to rise in the country, the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (Zimstat) has revealed that one person now needs nearly $30 000 for basic needs monthly. According to Zimstat director-general Taguma Mahonde for the month of February, inflation averaged over 92 percent. “The Total Consumption Poverty Line (TPL) is derived…
By Ashley Moyo SOUTH Africa-based socialite Anitta Neshiri has been nominated for the Forty Under 40 Africa award in the category of Community Development. This year’s edition of the awards, scheduled for March 25 in South Africa, is made up of 126 nominees from 24 African countries including South Africa, Egypt, Zimbabwe, Uganda, Nigeria, Algeria,…
By Black EdwardFOR crying out loud! Please tell those young people to pull up their trousers. Eer… on second thoughts, it would be pointless. They most certainly won’t listen. Youths being youths, they are wont to do the exact opposite of what you instruct them to do, as everyone who remembers their teenage years can…
By Black EdwardAN American journalist and author, Finley Peter Dunne, asserts that the past always appears to be better than it was; It only makes things nice because it isn’t here. That can, however, be disputed, right? While some people believe that you shouldn’t look back, others believe that our past experiences may be a…
By Emmanuel Marambe PREMIERSHIP new boys Sheasham are not fazed by the prospect of facing big-spending Dynamos and last year’s runners-up Chicken Inn in the first two games of their maiden Castle Lager Premier Soccer League campaign. Sheasham were handed a tough opening pair of fixtures, first hosting last year’s runnersup Chicken Inn on match…
