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Collin Matiza Sports EditorZIMBABWE have been placed in a tough Group G of the 2012 Homeless World Cup soccer tournament which is set to run from October 6-14 in Mexico City, Mexico. According to this year’s Homeless World Cup draw, which was conducted in Mexico City on Tuesday, Zimbabwe were thrown in
Africa’s role in European arrogance
Josephat JumaDr Helmut Danner’s recently launched book: End of Arrogance: Africa and the West — Understanding their Differences, attempts to spur dialogue aimed at making Africa and the West understand each other. The book generously castigates the West’s condescending attitude towards Africans,
Editorial Comment: Time to plan, prepare for forthcoming farming season
The rainfall forecast released by the Meteorological Services Department on Tuesday showing that the country will receive normal to below normal rains in some parts and severe drought in others should help farmers and other stakeholders in the industry plan accordingly for the coming season.Save our Africa from alcohol
James ShikwatiThe emergence of Africa’s middle class is driving growth in beer market demand, but is the continent prepared to manage alcohol-related harm to its population? Africa’s beer market rose by 7 percent in 2011 as Africans squeezed three work hours to afford a beer, compared to 12 minutes
The politics of definitions
Zuma shocked South Africans and the rest of Africa when his government voted alongside Bosnia and Herzegovina, Colombia, Lebanon, Gabon, Nigeria, Portugal, France, the United States, and Britain for a resolution that authorised the invasion of Libya.As Libya was burning and tens of thousands of innocent Libyan civilians were massacred by vicious aerial firepower from Nato thugs, Zuma tried a naive diplomatic withdrawal of association.
“We have spoken out against the misuse of the good intentions in Resolution 1973,” he said in Parliament.
“We strongly believe that the resolution is being abused for regime change, political assassinations and foreign military occupation.”
Bhebhe, the rat that dared swim
The lizard and rat went for a swim but it is the rat that came out dripping wet. Sot it was with MDC-T deputy organising secretary, Abednico Bhebhe. He must be a bitter man. There he was in Umzingwane, Matabeleland South Province, toeing the party line at a rally only to have his fingers rapped by his bosses in Harare the next day for saying precisely what they have been telling people around the country.
Bhebhe had told the gathering that MDC-T would rewrite the Constitution if it assumes power saying the document which may emanate from the Copac process will just be a transitional one, or to put it simply, one specifically to facilitate regime change.
Bhebhe told the Umzingwane rally that his party would rewrite the Constitution, if it assumed power even if people approved the draft at the
PSL, Supersport seal six-year deal
Robson Sharuko Senior Sports Editor
THE Premier Soccer League has signed a six-year broadcast rights deal with SuperSport International (Pvt) Ltd in a landmark development that could transform the face of Zimbabwean football.
The historic deal, which is with immediate effect, will see matches in the domestic top-flight league being screened live on SuperSport television channels throughout sub-Saharan Africa and islands on the Indian Ocean.
The domestic Premiership also stands to reap massive benefits, in terms of exposure, from being broadcast on SuperSport International’s mobile and Internet platforms.
SuperSport International said yesterday there was tremendous potential in Zimbabwe football and they were excited to be part of the journey into a future that looks very bright.
Although the financial details of the deal were not released, The Herald can reveal that SuperSport
International will pay an initial US$400 000, into the Premiership’s coffers, in the first year of the deal that will run from the remainder of this season until the 2017 football season.
The pay-per-view television channel will also foot all the costs related to production, which will be separate from the money for the rights they will pay to the league to disburse to the clubs, and this will push their financial outlay, in their first year of operation, to more than US$1 million.
Yesterday, SuperSport International and the PSL leadership, issued a joint statement announcing their marriage.
PM’s lover wants $15k maintenance
Fidelis Munyoro Assistant News Editor
PRIME Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s wife Locadia Karimatsenga Tembo is claiming US$15 000 monthly maintenance from her estranged husband.
She filed the claim at the civil court in Harare yesterday.
She wants the PM to contribute towards her upkeep and accessories, as she has been accustomed to.
This comes barely a week before the premier’s wedding with Ms Elizabeth Macheka on September 15.
In her claim, Karimatsenga says she is customarily married to PM Tsvangirai after the latter paid lobola to her parents.
The marriage took place in November last year.
“The respondent (PM) is my husband. He married me on the 21st of November 2011 and has been supporting me until I was discharged from hospital in South Africa.
“The respondent proposed to marry me in September 2011. I accepted the proposal and he then made arrangements to meet my parents and to pay lobola in terms of the African customary tradition,” she said.
Karimatsenga said after the PM paid lobola, he requested permission for her to stay with him, which was granted.
“He also requested for permission to have a white wedding, which was also granted . . . and satisfied the requirements laid down by my parents,”
No to paper graduates — President
Farirai Machivenyika Senior Reporter
LOCAL universities and other tertiary institutions should redirect their focus to producing graduates with entrepreneurial skills and capable of engaging in research that develops local communities, President Mugabe has said.
The President, who is the Chancellor of all State Universities, said this while delivering a lecture at the opening of the Research and Intellectual Exposition at the Harare International Conference Centre yesterday.
“The challenge to institutions of higher learning is to engage in research aimed at boosting production in all sectors.
“But they cannot lead us into realising this noble cause of our economic reconstruction if they are in their current forms, which reflect by and large colonial structures and purposes.
“Our considered opinion is that the task of colleges, polytechnics and universities is not so much to produce certificates, diplomas and degrees for the shelf, but also to promote impact-oriented research and knowledge which is promotive of our various underdeveloped communities.”
The Head of State and Government and Commander-in-Chief of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces challenged tertiary institutions to include the indigenisation and economic empowerment programmes in their curriculum as part of efforts to change the mindset of students.
“It is sad to note that our graduates keep flowing to work in Western countries and NGOs . . . this shows the lack of baptism in national
SA shooting: Zim rights groups rapped
Herald Reporters
Labour and human rights groups in Zimbabwe have been slammed for their deafening silence on the shooting