No one buying my yoghurt, Grace moans
"You can't even find a person who can buy a packet of milk."PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe’s wife complained on Wednesday that the cash-strapped country's economic woes were damaging her dairy business."I...
View ArticleCan Moses Chunga derail Dynamos?
LAST season Dynamos were almost derailed in their quest for a third Castle Lager Premiership title in a row by Buffaloes when they were beaten 3-2 at Sakubva Stadium in Mutare.That setback was Dynamos’...
View ArticleKluivert in the frame for Ghana job
DUTCH legend Patrick Kluivert is on the Ghana Football Association's (GFA) five-man shortlist to be the new coach.Ghana have been without a coach since Kwesi Appiah left in September.The other...
View ArticleICC bans Utseya for illegal action
ZIMBABWE offspinner Prosper Utseya has been banned from bowling in international cricket after his action was found to exceed the ICC's 15-degree limit.Utseya was tested at an accredited facility in...
View Article10 richest pastors list sparks controversy
A LIST of the top 10 richest pastors in the world has been published, proving the business of translating the holy word has become a highly lucrative one.The importance of pastors in serving humanity,...
View ArticleGrace got PhD to advise Mugabe, Oppah
FIRST Lady Grace Mugabe had to acquire a doctorate in order to be a better adviser to President Robert Mugabe, according to outgoing Zanu PF women’s league boss Oppah Muchinguri.Muchinguri made the...
View ArticleMidlands records steep rise in STIs
THE Midlands province has recorded a steep increase in the number of new sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in the second quarter of this year as compared to the first quarter.According to...
View ArticleI love my niece, 13, rapist tells court
A 24-YEAR-OLD man from Chiredzi who is facing rape allegations stunned the Masvingo magistrates’ court on Tuesday when he told the court that he is in love with his 13-year-old niece, but could not...
View ArticleNurse banned in UK over fake Zim O'Levels
A ZIMBABWEAN nurse who faked her way to a diploma and a professional register in the UK has been banned from practising.Sibusiso Nyoni duped Coventry University officials into giving her a place on a...
View ArticleJudge orders halt to housing demolitions
HIGH COURT judge Justice Nicholas Mathonsi has ordered the government to halt house demolitions in Harare and Epworth which have left thousands of residents without shelter.This is after residents’...
View ArticleLockdown in Harare over Ebola scare
WILKINS Infectious Diseases Hospital was on Thursday forced to close following suspicions that one of its patients was suffering from the deadly Ebola disease.Patients who rely on the hospital for...
View ArticleMliswa on brink after no confidence vote
AT LEAST 28 out of the 50 members of the Mashonaland West Zanu PF provincial executive on Thursday passed a vote-of-no-confidence in party chairman Temba Mliswa.The vote could end the political career...
View ArticleZimbos jailed 18 yrs for UK cheque fraud
THE “ruthless” Zimbabwean ringleaders of one of the UK’s largest ever cheque fraud gangs were, Thursday, sent to prison for a total of 18 years at Bradford Crown Court.The sentence follows a nationwide...
View ArticleZim in dark about mineral wealth size
ZIMBABWE is in the dark about its vast mineral deposits as no geological survey has been conducted to assess the country’s untapped mineral resources, a senior mines official has said.The director of...
View ArticleRoads need US$5bln, toll fees raise $102m
ZIMBABWE requires $5 billion to rehabilitate its road network, ideally through public private partnership deals as funds generated through toll fees are not enough to rebuild the strategic...
View ArticleMemories from History for the Future
"We have tainted what was a glorious revolution, reducing it to some agrarian racist enterprise. We have behaved as if the world owes us a living; it does not. We have blamed other people for each and...
View ArticleIMF critique: SMPs fraught with error
THE finance ministry, desperate to lay claim on concessionary funds, recently carried out a “fiscal pounce” on unsuspecting parties in its attempts to satisfy IMF pre-loan conditions forcing Zimbabwe...
View ArticleZim crisis: Solutions lie in dialogue
I AM quite ruminative. Yes, I tend to think deeply and carefully about things. And whenever I do, I am constantly reminded of my obligations to my country. This has to be ostensibly because politics...
View ArticleGrace and Tsvangirai must explain!
FRIEND or foe, the revelation by Grace Mugabe that a faction in Zanu PF is working with MDC-T is not something that can go without some explanation from the MDC-T. Leaders must be held to account. We...
View ArticleSA’s anti-Africa immigration reforms
CRITICS of democratic South Africa have long argued that the country maintains a Janus face toward the rest of the African continent. On one level it sees its future as inextricably bound up with that...
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