Handball federation to host refs’ course

Collin Matiza Sports Editor
IN a move aimed at raising the handball officiating standards in this country, the Zimbabwe Handball Federation will next month hold a four-day refereeing course in Harare. The course will run from May 16 to 19 at Girls High School in the capital

Moyana land row takes new twist

Elita Chikwati Agriculture Reporter
FARMERS embroiled in a land row with the son of former Reserve Bank Governor Dr Kombo Moyana at Calgary Farm have had the sizes of their farms slashed to accommodate Kombo Junior and Ms Georgina Brown.
Kombo Junior got the lion’s share of the land taken from other farmers with an offer letter indicating his farm will be 312 hectares in size.
Other beneficiaries, who were settled in 2006 at the farm, had their farms reduced to an average of 66 hectares.
The farmers had initially rejected the new offer letters that were issued on Thursday in protest.
They said Lands, Land Reform and Rural Resettlement Minister Herbert Murerwa signed the new offer letters, which reduced their farm sizes.
The farmers said they had their farms reduced while one of them Mr Martin Sibindi

Family still to collect boy’s remains

Crime Reporter
THE family of Given Flint Matapure (3) are yet to collect his remains from Harare Central Hospital mortuary. DNA tests conducted in South Africa on skeletal remains found at the Exhibition Park in Harare last November have matched those of

DeMbare’s injury horror

From Goodwill Zunidza in Al Marsa, Tunisia
THE Dynamos camp was yesterday rocked by a number of injuries that cast a shadow on the Glamour Boys’ epic battle against African football kings Esperance in a Champions League showdown at Rades today. More than half of the members

Ghetto Blast: Local’s lekker, but can be suicidal

Rosenthal Mutakati
We thought Jacob had landed the jackpot when he married Sharon, a ghetto belle whose chocolate cream legs, milky white teeth and gait, drove almost every township boy crazy. In Sharon was a real woman. A black beauty with well-defined body

Women should be given the opportunity to lead

Zimbabwe, like other countries in the African Union, has gone overdrive to ensure equal representation of men and women in the legislature and elsewhere. Our Senior Repor-ter Michael Chideme (MC) caught up with Gender Links chief executive Ms Colleen Lowe Morna (CLM) to shed more light on the 50/50 equal representation in politics and all spheres of life

Zifa shelve Asiagate plans

Petros Kausiyo Deputy Sports Editor
ZIFA have deferred until next week the release of the names of the first 30 players to be cleared of match-fixing allegations following the postponement of a board meeting that could have taken place in Harare yesterday. The association had been

EJCCA’s Forbes shines on Day One

Mbachi Mutukula-Maregere Sports Reporter
OPENING batsman Adam Forbes and pace bowler Franco Marais were key in a thrilling last-over victory of their touring Easterns South African provincial franchise on the opening day of ZimPups Under-15 and Under-16 cricket festival at St John’s College

Sean adjusts to life in Zim

Eddie Chikamhi Sports Reporter
AWAY from the pressure that comes with a hot seat like coaching CAPS United, Northern Irish manager Sean Connor is a relaxed man. Much has been said and written and said about him since coming to join the former Zimbabwe Cup Kings at

CAPS United meet Leonard Fiyado, their nemesis

Augustine Hwata Sports Reporter
GUNNERS forward Leonard Fiyado struck an unforgettable brace that torched ugly scenes of violence at Rufaro on July 17, 2011 as his side took a comfortable 2-0 lead over CAPS United in a Castle Lager Premiership tie. Just a week before that encounter,

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