Britain awash in gloom
LONDON — With less than five months until the 2012 London Olympic Games begin, England’s mood is about as gray and gloomy as a rainy day along the River Thames. Instead of enthusiasm, euphoria and ebullience, the Olympic countdown is generating a drumbeat of skepticism, scare stories and doom.Mashonaland girls set relay record
Ellina Mhlanga Sports ReporterTHE Mashonaland girls’ relay team set a new national record in the 120m freestyle as the hosts dominated the Junior National Awimming Championships which ended at Les Brown Swimming Pool
Pasuwa rues blunt strikeforce
Eddie Chikamhi Sports ReporterGunners …………………………. (1) 1
Dynamos ……………………………. 0
DYNAMOS coach Callisto Pasuwa has expressed concern over his side’s lack of firepower in front of
Platinum’s Caf body blow

Petros Kausiyo Deputy Sports Editor
FC PLATINUM have been dealt a huge blow in their bid to maximise on home advantage in their maiden Champions League campaign after the Confederation of Africa Football controversially
Fans vote for gala’s top performers

Entertainment Reporter
VOTES for artistes who were outstanding at the 21st Movement Celebrations Gala held in Chipinge recently continue to pour in, with members of the public voting for artistes of their choice. This was
Girl addicted to petrol
IF smelling gasoline weren’t a health hazard enough, meet the girl who drinks it. Lifting a red gas canister before the cameras, a girl named Shannon demonstrates her claimed addiction of drinking gasoline for TLC’S television program My Strange Addiction. “It tingles at first and then it, it burns theBigamist exposed
Two residents of the United States with the help of Facebook’s “People you may know” feature discovered they were married to the same man at the same time, the BBC reported. The US resident clicked on a link proposed by Facebook and got to the page of her husband’s new wife. “Wife numberGirl who’s older than her mom
Little Hayley Okines was told she would not live beyond the age of 13. The youngster suffers from a rare disease called progeria which turns children old before they have reached their teens. But now having celebrated her 14th birthday she has defied all odds and to celebrate she has published herListen to the poet
Title: Lazaruses and DivasesAuthor: Wellingtone G Kusema
Publisher: Heritage Progress, United Kingdom
Pages: 50
ISBN: 798-0-9557546-4-7
Poetry is back in fashion. The collection which Wellingtone Kusema entered for the National Arts Merit
The moving train of Chiadzwa
Tichaona ZindogaIt is a little trite to point out that Farai Maguwu, the celebrated “diamond activist” who wrote copiously and negatively about a place he had never visited has finally seen the light and for once spoke good



