CAPS lose Samakwere, Nyandoro

Eddie Chikamhi Sports Reporter
CAPS UNITED will not be getting Zimbabwe internationals — Chris Samakwere and Darryl Nyandoro — this season despite paying a huge amount to secure their services. The Green Machine, who host tricky newboys Harare City at the National

Young Warriors ready for Batswana

Augustine Hwata Sports Reporter
YOUNG Warriors captain Willard Kalongonda and his deputy Kuda Mahachi hold the aces when the new-look side host Botswana in an African Under-20 Championship first round, first leg match at Barbourfields this afternoon. The two defenders are the

For Football and Family

Eddie Chikamhi Sports Reporter
DYNAMOS striker Takesure Chinyama has two things that he holds closest to his heart — his young family and football.
In fact, his life revolves around his game and his family.

4 perish in crash

Herald Reporter
FOUR people were killed while 13 others were injured when a Toyota Hiace they were travelling and a Lofombo bus side-swiped along Kirkman Road in Harare yesterday morning. The injured were taken to Parirenyatwa Hospital. National Traffic deputy

Diplomats hail President

Herald Reporter
SOME diplomats accredited to Zimbabwe have commended President Mugabe for promoting peace and reconciliation in his speech at the National Sports Stadium on Wednesday during the country’s 32nd independence celebrations. Chinese

New Zealand journalist fined

Beitbridge Bureau
A New-Zealand journalist who was arrested with a Zimbabwean woman at Beitbridge Border Post while working on a story about irregular migration between Zimbabwe and South Africa on Monday morning was yesterday fined US$150. The two were

Shamu condoles Mutambudzi family

Herald Reporter
Media, Information and Publicity Minister Webster Shamu has sent a condolence message to the Mutambudzi family following the death of the father of the director of Urban Communications in the Ministry, Major Anywhere Mutambudzi. Mr Muroyi Dtoit

Zimbabwe — All for minerals, metals and land

I have just been reading C G Tracey’s “All for Nothing?”, itself a weeping autobiography by one of Rhodesia’s leading farmers and, especially after UDI, one of Rhodesia’s leading sanctions-busters. The book is tearful about the loss of Tracey’s Mount Shannon, aka Mount Lothian farm, apparently in the course of our  land reforms. But the book gives one the sense that this land loss triggers a long introspection in Tracey, much of it coinciding with major turns and shifts in the life of Southern Rhodesia both before and after UDI.

But that is a story for another day. My interest is one forthright sentence Tracey uses to introduce a chapter of the book. The forthright sentence

A tale of two derbies

Football is special and it unites us and divides us in equal measure, it fascinates us and frustrates us in equal measure, it delights us and destroys us in equal measure, it excites us and exhausts us in equal measure.
The 2005 movie, Green Street Hooligans, captures the heart and soul of football hooliganism and shows, in graphic detail, the extent to which many fans are prepared to fight in the name of their team.
The defining moment, for me in this movie, comes when an American who is drawn into the football gangs of London during

Ziyawa empowers youth through shows

Entertainment Reporter
BULAWAYO-based traditional group Ziyawa Community Rehabilitation Initiative will stage a number of shows

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