Gritty Glamour Boys

Robson Sharuko Senior Sports Editor
DYNAMOS moved within one match of taking their African Champions League victories’ tally onto the quarter-of-a-century mark at Rufaro yesterday when they edged bullish Mozambicans, Liga Muculmana, to power into the second round of this

Dynamos grind out result

Grace Chingoma Sports Reporter
THEY may not have hit top gear but Dynamos still found a way to stifle battling Liga Muculmana and advance to the Champions League second round.

Kingstons manager suspended for cellphone misuse

Labour Reporter
A branch manager with Kingstons Limited has had his dismissal on charges of disobedience to an order to surrender a company phone put aside on technical grounds but remains on suspension without pay until a new hearing can convene.

Hospital clerk jailed for fraud

From Noah Pito in Hurungwe
A KAROI Hospital clerk has been fined US$360 (or four months) for defrauding patients. Tatenda Kudzirunga (25) who was employed by Karoi Hospital as a clerk responsible for receipting cash from patients, pleaded guilty to four counts of fraud when

Most wanted gang leader gets 31 years

Noah Pito
Hurungwe’s most wanted criminal and leader of a six-member gang that recently went on a crime spree, robbing schools and shops in and around Karoi, has been jailed for 31 years. Karoi Magistrate Mr Robson Finsin slapped Todd Maketo (42)

Muzhingi in historic feat

JOHANNESBURG — Comrades Marathon three-time champion Stephen Muzhingi yesterday became the first man in recent memory to win two back-to-back ultra races with his victory in the Old Mutual Two Oceans Marathon on Saturday. Muzhingi emulated the feat of Derek Preiss who clinched the Two Oceans in 1975 on the back of a Comrades triumph. Despite the men’s

East Timor: Threat to the powerful

John Pilger
Milan Kundera’s truism, “the struggle of people against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting”, described East Timor. The day before I set out to film clandestinely there in 1993, I went to Stanfords map shop in London’s Covent

Book revolution in the offing

Stephen Mpofu
Snatches of hope are in the air that a revolution in black and white now in the offing could change, in fact transform altogether, the complexion of the publishing industry in Zimbabwe, thanks to National University of Science and Technology

The ‘Adventures’ of Chinodya

Memory Chirere
Title: Chioniso and Other Stories
Author: Shimmer Chinodya
Publisher: Weaver Press
Publication date: 2012, 182 pages,
Isbn: 978-1-77922-170-4
Reviewer: Memory Chirere
Shimmer Chinodya’s latest offering, Chioniso and Other Stories is a work of a mature craftsman. These stories are just

The African Dream: From poverty to prosperity

Brian Ligomeka
Title: The African Dream: From Poverty to Prosperity
Author: Bingu wa Mutharika
Reviewed by Brian Ligomeka
The African Dream: From Poverty to Prosperity, the latest book by Bingu wa Mutharika (deceased) is a great inspiration of a

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