adminZimbabwe to pay $36m Cahora Bassa debt
Harare Bureau
ZIMBABWE is expected this week to pay about $36 million to Mozambique’s Hydro Cahora Bassa to reduce Zesa’s power debt.
Bobbi Kristina to play Whitney in movie
Los Angeles — Whitney Houston’s daughter wants to play her in a biopic.Unavailability of air link hits tourism
Victoria Falls ReporterTHE continued absence of the national airline, Air Zimbabwe, in the air and recent increase of fuel prices locally and regionally had a negative impact on tourist arrivals in the resort town of Victoria Falls over the Easter holiday, tourism players said.
Young Mighty Warriors ready for visitors
Harare BureauYOUNG Mighty Warriors coach Sithetheliwe “Kwinji 15” Sibanda said they are treating the Fifa World Cup second round qualifier, return match against Nigeria on Sunday at Rufaro seriously despite the healthy lead that the Falconets are carrying.
EDITORIAL COMMENT: Transmedia must improve transmission
It would do this country a lot of good if the many technocrats in Government took time from their busy schedules to evaluate projects described in the flowery reports they get regularly from operational areas under their purview.
Africa’s diaspora: To return or not?
By Innocent Chofamba-Sithole For generations now, the post-industrial economies of Europe and North America have bewitched Africans with their gleaming semblance of success, modernity and the promise of a secure and prosperous future.
For the continent’s well-heeled and educated as well as for the unschooled but skilled in the arts of determination, life in London or New York, or Paris is well worth striving for.
Zimbabwe Saints on a roll — coach
By Ricky ZililoZimbabwe Saints coach Edmore Sibanda believes he has assembled a squad capable of leading Chikwata back to the Premiership.
BAT sales volumes up 49 percent
Business ReporterTHE Zimbabwean unit of the cigarette producing concern, British American Tobacco (BAT), has registered a 49 percent increase in sales volumes to $39,8 million for the year ending 31 December 2011.
Boost for Shabanie
From Paul Mundandi in ZvishavaneSHABANIE Mine Football Club got another boost when a local company, Vedette Trading of Zvishavane, yesterday donated a football kit.
The handover of the kit was witnessed by hundreds of fans who thronged Nyaradzai Hall which is a stone’s throw from Maglas Stadium in the oldest and biggest suburb of the asbestos mining town. Fans who witnessed the event were treated to free drinks.
ANCYL cancels Malema meeting
JOHANNESBURG — ANC Youth League (ANCYL) president Julius Malema may be losing the support of his comrades, analysts say.This comes after the league postponed a planned emergency meeting of its national executive committee yesterday to discuss its response to the suspension of Malema last week for saying President Jacob Zuma was a dictator.