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After nearly four years spent single-handedly building his yacht, Nina Soraya, Markus Weissenberger is ready to leave Cape Town's sunshine behind and make his dream of sailing to Antarctica a reality.
REGIONAL governments have been advised to fight corruption and poverty and invest in skills development to increase employment opportunities.
The city of Cape Town is bracing up for this week's Final Draw of the FIFA World Cup to be staged for the first time in the continent of Africa.
A HARARE man who was jailed 20 months effective for selling firearm ammunition to members of the public without a licence got reprieve after he was granted US$30 bail pending appeal by a Harare magistrate.
INNSCOR's crocodile ranching operations based in Kariba Niloticus has embarked on a re-scaling exercise that will result in a 30 percent reduction in operational output in response to the world economic downturn that affected the global exotic skins market.
THREE former Monomotapa players Mtulisi Maphosa, Daniel Zokoto and Chris Samakweri are on the verge of making history as the first Zimbabwean players to feature at the Fifa Club World Cup tournament set for Abu Dhabi next week.
JUST five days after Zimbabwe joined the global family in the World Cup Trophy tour frenzy, domestic football was yesterday the focus of the international game with the staging of two high-level Fifa courses for the referees' instructors and the Premier Soccer League clubs' chiefs in Harare.
GOVERNMENT will not rush to sell its controlling interest in Air Zimbabwe before addressing operational challenges affecting its viability.
THE 2009 Zone Six Volleyball Championships are set for their first serves this morning at two venues in Durban after organisers decided to have men playing at the Steve Biko Istitute of Technology and Tongaat.
THE Zimbabwe women's Under-20 national soccer team, which was in camp for the 2010 World Championships in Germany, has progressed to the final qualifying round without kicking a ball.
Harare City Council yesterday announced a US$505 million budget for 2010, which would be largely funded from rates, business entities and borrowing.
GLOBALLY, livestock farming is fast becoming agriculture's most economically important sub-sector with demand for animal products projected to double over the next 20 years, especially in the developing countries, findings by the International Livestock Research Institute have indicated.
THE International Images Film Festival, which kicked off in Harare on November 20, this week moves to Bulawayo.
LISTED concern, Art Holdings Limited suffered a US$2,8 million loss for the full financial year ending September 30 2009, due to low capacity utilisation at its factories.
Itai Makumbe, Zimbabwe's Big Brother Revolution housemate, was evicted from the TV reality series at the weekend as the show reaches the home stretch.
ZIMBABWE'S chances of hosting Brazil for the 2010 Fifa World Cup finals got a major boost on Sunday when the Brazilian technical team said it had exclusively focused on setting base either here or in South Africa.
HOME Affairs co-Minister Giles Mutsekwa has called for the immediate removal of illegal economic sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe by Britain and the United States of America saying they were adversely affecting the nation.
Chief Zvimba has banned the harvesting of wild fruits for sale in his area.
WITH less than a week before BBA's finale, the countdown to the announcement of the winner has begun! Eish, my BBA people's, my nerves are shot! Already!
THE Agra Cooperative increased its net profit by 18 per cent to N$23,9 million for the financial year ending July 31 2009, its Chief Executive Officer Peter Kazmaier announced on Friday.
THE ruling party, Swapo, has taken a lead in the northern regions, where it has always ruled supreme when it comes to elections.
A top Namibia Premier League official says they have not yet received reports from the referee and the match commissioner after a match between Eleven Arrows and United Stars was abandoned in Walvis Bay on Sunday.
THE curtain finally came down on the 2009 CBZ Premiership season on Sunday amid violent winds of change shaking the top-flight league, with members of the Big Three Dynamos, CAPS United and Highlanders completing the marathon empty-handed for the first time since Independence.
A continental Non Governmental Organisation has demanded that Zambia acts expeditiously in apprehending Genocide suspects who have made the country a safe haven.
THIRTEEN People on Sunday evening sustained multiple body injuries after the Zambia Army bus carrying sports servicemen and women rammed into a stationary truck near the Chipata-Lundazi Road junction.
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