admin‘Leave politics out of Marikana’
Rustenburg — People should not seek to score political points from last week’s mine violence in Marikana, Anglican Archbishop Thabo Makgoba told a memorial service yesterday.
Zanu-PF: Clearing the crowded deck
Before I get into matters of the week, my humble acknowledgement to one of my alert readers. Two weeks ago I mistakenly suggested that the late Zanu-Ndonga leader, Ndabaningi Sithole, sought and got through Ian Smith’s Ken Flower-led CIO money from the CIA to support his electoral fight against the Patriotic Front in the watershed 1979 elections.
The alert reader corrected me through the Herald that in fact, the CIA money which Sithole got through Morocco’s late King Hassan was meant to help him fight the bogus Internal Settlement
As Alexander Kanengoni will always put it, thousands of gallant freedom fighters didn’t make it to see Rhodesia disappear from geography
We are all born to serve our nation, in one way or the other, and Samuel Parirenyatwa chose medicine, and the liberation struggle, while Moses Chunga chose football, both as a genius on the pitch and a decent coach on the bench, as service to their motherland.There comes a time, in any man’s life, when the call to serve one’s country overrides everything else, including making the ultimate sacrifice and losing one’s life for such a cause.
When we were growing up in the ’70s, thousands of people answered that big call, to serve their
Gweru family stops burial over tongue
Midlands Correspondent
A funeral wake for a Lower Gweru man who reportedly died after taking too much wine recently turned into a nightmare when relatives postponed the burial when they discovered that his tongue was missing.Gallery exhibits Gwetai’s works
Entertainment Reporter
THE National Gallery of Zimbabwe (NGZ) in Bulawayo will next week open an exhibition by resident artist Tafadzwa Gwetai called Aesthetic Codes Science Meets Art.
Zanu-PF Politburo to meet over draft
Harare Bureau
The Zanu-PF Politburo meets for an extraordinary session tomorrow to deliberate the way forward in
Water-shedding intensifies
Temba Dube
Chronicle Reporter
THE Bulawayo City Council will with effect from Monday increase frequency of water-shedding from two days a week to three.
Zim aim to defend Junior Africa Cup
Harare Bureau
DEFENDING champions Young Sables coach Brighton Chivandire is cautious ahead of his side’s campaign in the Junior Africa Cup rugby tournament that kicks off at Prince Edward School tomorrow.Mighty Warriors will become regional powerhouse — Gumbo
Lovemore Zigara
THE Zimbabwe Women’s Soccer Association chairperson, Mavis Gumbo, said she was committed to ensuring that the senior women’s national soccer team becomes a powerhouse in the region in the next two years.‘Bosso play better away’
Zenzo Moyo
Former Highlanders Striker