Enock Madziro (36) was sharing a room with six colleagues from Zimbabwe at Westerberg Settlement in South Africa's northern city of Polokwane when an army of men wielding iron bars burst in. The menacing South Africans were shouting: "Zimbabweans we want to kill you now!
CHANCES of the Zimbabwe Cheetahs playing in the six remaining legs of the IRB World Sevens Series went up in smoke after they were mauled 12 - 35 by Scotland in George, South Africa, in the Shield final Saturday. The Cheetahs currently play in two legs of the World Series in Dubai and George. The IRB Sevens circuit consists of tournaments played in Dubai, South Africa, New Zealand, USA, Hong Kong, ...
ZIMBABWE will set up an office to audit the country's external debt in the first step towards settling the US$5.4 billion debt. In his 2010 national budget, Finance Minister Tendai Biti said the Debt Management Clearance Office will be housed in the ministry to validate the country's debt.
The 12th edition of Ibumba International Arts Festival opened in the city last week with more than 25 acts expected to showcase their productions in a variety of genres. This will be a double celebration for the organisers, Siyaya Arts who will also be marking their 20th anniversary.
THE inter-party talks to save the unity government, which adjourned last week due to the Zanu PF congress, are set to resume on Friday, amid reports that an announcement on progress in the talks will be made by the principals this week. President Robert Mugabe, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara last week received reports from their party negotiators.
IT is said her visit to see Oliver Mtukudzi was a major highlight as Hollywood met Zimbabwe. Top award-winning Hollywood actress, Debra Messing was in the country last week albeit not to shoot a sequel to Wedding Date but as the Population Services International (PSI) ambassador.
Zimbabwe's economy will be the same size as it was in 1997 in two years' time and in 2019 it will be the fifth strongest economy in Africa, according to a Zimbabwean economist. Dr Eric Bloch said this at a post-budget meeting breakfast in Gweru organised by the Zimbabwe National Chamber of Commerce Midlands Chapter.
JENNI Williams, one of the leaders of the pressure group Women of Zimbabwe Arise (Woza), says state agents have been monitoring their movements since their return from the United States where they received the 2009 Robert F Kennedy Human Rights award. The group made the observation in Bulawayo last week where they were back in court facing charges under Section 37 of the Criminal Law (Codification ...
DESPITE rain stoppages Tuskers were left in a spot of bother on the third day of their Logan Cup game against Mashonaland Eagles at Harare Sports Club yesterday. The Matabeleland-based franchise was still some 20 runs behind in their second innings when they finished on 70 for four at the close of play yesterday going into today's final.
A JOURNEY from Chimbumu village in Guruve to Perth, Australia is unimaginable for most villagers but Audius Mtawarira will tell you that nothing is impossible. Although he has never been a villager per ser, the musician was born in that area and made his way through prestigious schools like Peter House and Gateway before landing in Australia, where he is based.
BASIL Nyabadza, the Zanu PF chairman for Manicaland who resigned in dramatic fashion on the eve of his party's crucial congress last week, says his party has "lost the plot" by sticking to outdated politics. He said instead of focusing on regaining the space it has lost to the MDC during the last decade, the fractious party was concentrating on rescuing the 1987 Unity Accord.
THE European Union (EU) is in the process of implementing a 110 million euro commitment to support Zimbabwe's Short Term Emergency Recovery Programme (STERP), a top diplomat said on Thursday.
THE ongoing extensions to a house belonging to a senior Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe official, Munyaradzi Kereke, has set tongues wagging among residents in Harare's upmarket suburb of Mount Pleasant who suspect he is constructing a state-of-the-art clinic. Kereke is the advisor to the RBZ governor, Gideon Gono.
ZIFA's elections should be held not later than March 31 next year, the soccer body's assembly has agreed. The assembly meeting, which was closed to the Press agreed the elections should be held in line with the directive from world soccer governing body Fifa.
I am not a street activist, but more from the irritable pool of intellectual key-punchers who hope that President Robert Mugabe and his cronies are literate enough to notice how collective resentment and hatred for dictatorship is better expressed in the written word. I say this because there is a fallacy pervading Zimbabwean society that the number of times and period that one is beaten and ...
THE Meyrick Park Residents' Association (MPRA) in Harare has come up with a novel idea to deal with council's failure to collect refuse from the area. Regular clean up campaigns in the neighbourhood are now the in-thing in a suburb that has also become one of the cleanest in the city.
WHEN the Minister of Finance, Tendai Biti delivered the country's budget, I was away in Cape Town attending a conference on among other things, harnessing the capacity and opportunities presented by the Zimbabwean Diaspora for the reconstruction of Zimbabwe's fragile economy. The business of that conference and the inevitable demands on time explains the truancy of this column from these pages ...
The inclusive government will next year bring to Parliament the Judicial Services Bill (JSB) that seeks to improve conditions of service in the country's justice system. Deputy Minister of Justice and Legal Affairs, Jessie Majome, said the bill will among other things see the introduction of the Judicial Services Commission (JSC) that would look into issues of remuneration and working conditions ...
AFTER vowing that they would never perform together under a music promoter more than two years ago, Alick Macheso and Oliver Mtukudzi have made a u-turn and agreed to stage to a joint show organised by Jazz 105 and Chipaz Promotions. The show will take place at the Harare International Conference Centre on Friday.
VERY few people in Harare are aware that life in the plush suburb of Mount Pleasant can be very unpleasant at times. One would think the people behind those leafy residential stands are the happiest in Harare.
A 62-year-old man was last week taken to court for saying that ageing President Robert Mugabe "has failed and must go". The state says Rashidu Omar also castigated the land reform exercise, blaming it for food shortages that have plagued the nation.
MR MALVERN TOM of Mabvuku, vividly remembers the early 1980s when sleek vehicles and well-dressed men and ladies made weekend sojourns to his home suburb and adjacent Tafara as they patronised Hunters Bar, Tafara SunBird, Tafara Bottle Store and Dombojena among other outlets.
AN audited report of the earnings from Dynamos' dream African Champions League campaign last year has been completed amid early indications that it contains explosive information on how the country's biggest football club was allegedly turned into a gravy train for a lot of people.
THE African National Congress has promised its unwavering support for Zanu-PF, saying it has always been indebted to the party for assisting the South African liberation struggle and that of the whole region.
THE US$10 million inputs facility, President Mugabe unveiled at the end of Zanu-PF's Fifth National People's Congress in Harare at the weekend, is a timely intervention given the difficulties farmers are facing in acquiring inputs.
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