Serena blasts ‘Williams brothers’ slur
WORLD number one Serena Williams has slammed the Russian Tennis Federation president for describing her and sister Venus as the "Williams brothers".The WTA took swift action and fined Tarpishchev...
View ArticleGrace to challenge Mujuru at congress?
VICE-PRESIDENT Joice Mujuru is set to be challenged at the forthcoming Zanu PF elective congress in December amid suggestions First Lady Grace Mugabe could be encouraged to run for the...
View ArticleSata goes abroad for medical check-up
Zambian President Michael Sata has left for a medical check-up abroad at an undisclosed destination, his office said on Monday.The statement said Sata left last night accompanied by his wife and...
View ArticleCimas blasts new medical tariffs
MEDICAL insurance firm, CIMAS, has said its failure to settle service providers’ claims at the newly gazetted tariffs, in common with other medical aid societies, was a matter primarily of...
View ArticleFreda Rebecca gold output up 23pc
GOLD output at Mwana Africa’s Freda Rebecca mine rose by 23 percent to 16,555 ounces during the second quarter to September 30, from 13,505 oz during the same period last year, the company said on...
View ArticleMozambique vote counting stops
MOZAMBIQUE'S national elections commission said on Monday that vote counting in the country's northwestern province has stopped due to possible fraud with more than 60 percent of votes counted so...
View ArticleGovt warns defiant medical insurers
DEFIANT medical insurers have been warned to either adhere to government gazetted tariffs or risk being deregistered.The warning came from Deputy Heath and Child Care Minister Paul Chimedza who however...
View ArticleEbola: Ambulance crew flees Kwekwe scare
AN ambulance crew from Kwekwe recently made good their escape after learning that an emergency they had been summoned to involved a suspected case of Ebola while doctors in the city also refused to...
View ArticleEconet Global buys Telecel East Africa
ECONET Wireless Global has acquired the assets of Russian global telecoms operator, Vimpelcom, in in Burundi and Central African Republic for about US$65 million.Vimpelcom confirmed the deal Monday...
View ArticleStreak feels like Lampard against Chelsea
HEATH Streak can relate his situation to Frank Lampard playing for Manchester City against Chelsea, where the English footballer played for 13 seasons. In Streak's case the connection is deeper. He is...
View ArticleFootball heroes and their nicknames
Gift ‘GHETTO MUDUSO’ Mpariwa: Every game for him was a money game. MUDUSO for those not familiar with ghetto lingo is slang for money and for him every goal scored was like a pay cheque.OVER the years...
View ArticleMapeza wants Chibuku Super Cup
FC PLATINUM coach Norman Mapeza has set his sights on lifting the Chibuku Super Cup final where they face Harare City.The platinum miners saw off Black Rhinos on Saturday to book a final berth courtesy...
View ArticlePlaywrights pen Ebola awareness piece
TWO Zimbabwean playwrights have combined to pen a theatre play on the deadly Ebola virus which has claimed thousands of lives on the African continent.The play is aimed at helping spread awareness of...
View ArticlePistorius sentencing on Tuesday
A JUDGE will pass sentence on athlete Oscar Pistorius on Tuesday for killing his girlfriend after one of the most sensational murder trials in South Africa's history - and the decision could fuel...
View ArticleProphet caged 18 yrs for raping congregant
A SELF-PROCLAIMED Gokwe prophet was on Monday jailed 18 years for drugging and raping a married congregant in 2011.Emmanuel Domeka, 31, is the leader of a Pentecostal church in Mafusa village under...
View ArticleMan jailed 3 mths for fingering girl, 14
A 22-YEAR-OLD Mutare man was jailed for three months after he was caught red-handed inserting his finger in the private parts of a 14-year-old minor.Shelton Marange, 23, of Chinyausunzi in Sakubva...
View ArticleMDC-T outshines Zanu PF in violence, survey
THE MDC-T was fingered as the most violent party in the month of September registering 36 cases of violence against the 30 cases witnessed in Zanu PF, according to a civil rights group.The survey was...
View ArticleMDC-T: Mwonzora slams party rivals
“What I find strange is for some brothers to try to make political capital out of my persecution by the state."They are behaving as if they arranged this victimisation together with my tormentors." -...
View ArticleGukurahundi: Chief blocks exhumation
CHIEF Mabhikwa of Lupane on Sunday blocked the exhumation of a Zapu official who was murdered at the height of the 1980s Gukurahundi atrocities even as his brother was a minister in the government...
View ArticleGrace’s Mujuru attacks will spark war: Biti
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe’s wife, Grace, is agitating for war by pouring vitriol and belittling Vice-President Joice Mujuru, according to MDC Renewal Team leader Tendai Biti.Biti made the remarks while...
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