adminVP Mujuru to launch NYG
Sports Reporter
VICE-president Joice Mujuru is expected to set the ball rolling for this year’s Zimbabwe National Youth Games which would be held in Mashonaland Central in August at the official launch of the Games in Bindura tomorrow. The Sport and Recreation
Warriors roar back into top hundred
Sports Reporter
ZIMBABWE’S Warriors have moved three places up the ladder on the latest Fifa Coca Cola Football Rankings but it was newly crowned African kings Zambia who made a huge impact on the ratings. The Warriors who were ranked 102 last month
Bulls get bonus boost
Augustine Hwata, Sports Reporter
MOTOR ACTION players will not have to worry about winning bonuses during their Caf Confederation Cup campaign after diamond mining giants Mbada Diamonds revealed they had set side US$50 000 for each game as a reward to the players.
Money woes bite DeMbare
Eddie Chikamhi Sports Reporter
Sangoma threatens to cast spell on team
DYNAMOS’ pre-season preparations have suffered greatly from financial woes which have threatened to choke their hopes for
400 000 euro grant for 6 districts
Herald Reporter
SIX Rural District Councils have received a 400 000 euro grant for a peace building and conflict prevention programme from the European Union. The money will be shared equally among Buhera, Guruve, Matobo, Mberengwa, Murewa and Umguza
World Theatre Day preps on course
Stephen Chifunyise Theatre corridors
The International Theatre Institute (Zimbabwe Centre) has decided to the celebrate World Theatre Day on March 26. The day which falls on March 27 and was first commemorated in 1961, is celebrated the world over by national centres of the
China bans foreign shows at primetime
BEIJING. – China’s media regulator has issued new rules banning foreign television shows from being shown at primetime as the country tries to encourage domestic programming, state media reported on Tuesday. Foreign television series must be capped at a total of 50 episodes and the running time for an imported series must not exceed 25 percent of the total time a given channel
The agony of hot-sitting
Farai Kuvirimirwa Features Correspondent
THE bell rings and Takudzwa jostles with other students while he enters the school gate. Mud squirts from under his shoes as he heads westwards to the assembly point. It’s his first day at a Harare high-density suburb secondary school and he is excited
Tobacco sales open on high note
Agriculture Reporters
THE 2012 tobacco-selling season opened in Harare yesterday with the price averaging US$4 per kilogramme.
The bulk of the crop was bought for more than US$ 4per kg, a price that many farmers feel was fair while the industry expressed satisfaction with the quality of the leaf.
Most farmers at all the four auction floors expressed satisfaction at the state of the infrastructure and the service they were getting.
Boka Tobacco Auction Floors, Millennium Tobacco Floors, Tobacco Sales Floor and Premier Tobacco Floor are the licensed floors.
Farmers said they were happy with the ablution, water and health facilities.
When sanitary wear becomes a luxury
Catherine Masunda Features Correspondent
SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD Tinashe Magaya’s parents struggle to feed their offspring and for things like sanitary pads and tampons are luxuries she can not dare ask for. She has devised a way of making her own sanitary pads using pieces of cloth during her