adminFace-to-face with new Bosso manager
By Sikhumbuzo Moyo
THE newly appointed Highlanders manager Amin Soma-Phiri will meet the club executive today where he will lay his plans for the 2012 season.
Cricket captain Taylor shines
Zimbabwe cricket captain Brendan Taylor scored the first century of the tournament at the HRV Twenty20 in New Zealand this season but his superb batting performance could not help Wellington Firebirds from slumping to a seven-wicket defeat to Ortago at the weekend.
Mighty Warriors back in camp
Harare Bureau
IT is back to work for the Mighty Warriors who trooped into camp yesterday to prepare for an international friendly soccer match against Malawi in Blantyre on Saturday ahead of next week’s Africa Women’s Championships qualifier against Botswana.
One-on-one with Minister Mzembi
Minister of Tourism and Hospitality Industry, Engineer Walter Mzembi spent his Christmas Day in Victoria Falls, the country’s tourism hub. While many figures of his means and standing often see it fashionable to travel abroad during Christmas, shunning their own resorts, Eng Mzembi, who has steered the local industry to another level, demonstrated his confidence in what the domestic market offers. His decision to spend his festive break in Victoria Falls also reinforces official efforts to promote domestic tourism.
Diasporans urged to invest in local businesses
Chronicle Reporter
PLUMTREE town council has called on Zimbabweans in the Diaspora to invest in local businesses in order to create employment and curb migration of youths outside the country.
In an interview in Plumtree on Thursday, Plumtree town secretary, Mr Davies Dumezweni Luthe, said there was a need for concerted stakeholder involvement in luring skilled personnel that is scattered outside the country.
More than 20 feared dead in Kenyan boat crash
LAMU – More than 20 people were feared dead after a Kenyan ferry carrying more than 80 passengers capsized on Sunday night following a collision with a cargo boat off the island of Lamu, a popular tourist destination.
Strong Warriors squad named
Eddie Chikamhi Sports Reporter
ZIMBABWE have announced a strong squad, which includes the bulk of their foreign-based players, for the high-profile international friendly soccer match against Botswana scheduled for this Saturday in Gabo-rone.
Party leaders to hold joint rallies
Lloyd Gumbo Herald Reporter
LEADERS of the three political parties in the inclusive Government will next month hold joint rallies to urge their supporters to refrain from violence.
The leaders will use the rallies, to be held in all the country’s provinces, to preach co-existence and tolerance ahead of elections.
The rallies are a follow-up to the indaba on violence that was held in Harare in November last year. It drew the top leadership of the three parties and was jointly addressed by President Mugabe (Zanu-PF), Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai (MDC-T) and Professor Welshman Ncube (MDC).
Zanu-PF secretary for administration Cde Didymus Mutasa and MDC secretary-general Mrs Priscilla Misihairabwi-Mushonga confi-rmed the party leaders will jointly address the rallies.
“The dates haven’t been given to us by the President as you know there are three principals, but there is one main one who is President Mugabe, so we are guided by him,” Cde Mutasa said.
Beitbridge Border Post congested
Thupeyo Muleya Beitbridge Bureau
CONGESTION, which had eased at the Beitbridge Border Post in the last few days, returned yesterday as Zimbabweans based in South Africa started trooping back.
Long and winding queues were the order of the day at the border post for both human and vehicular traffic.
Vehicles formed double queues that stretched for over two kilometres from the clearing offices, while people jostled to have their passports stamped.
The slow movement of traffic was blamed on the introduction of exit forms on Sunday morning that are supposed to be filled in by travellers leaving the country.
Some of the travellers said the forms, which are meant to establish the exact number of people leaving the country, are not user friendly.
Many people could be seen struggling to fill in the forms, while others were reluctant to comply with the new arrangement which they viewed as time consuming.
For visitors leaving the country, the forms demand that they state the approximate amount of money they used while in Zimbabwe.
They have to state how much they spent on accommodation, food, entertainment, fares, petrol and all other purchases of a business nature.
Agric sector to grow by 11,6 pc
Agriculture ReporterThe Zimbabwe Farmers Union has said the agricultural sector will grow by 11,6 percent in 2012 courtesy of an anticipated output surge in tobacco, maize, cotton and soya bean.ZFU…