The Warriors barely win and have only been to two Nations Cup finals in 32 years but they are my team, all that I have, and all that I will ever need

This was the week the players, using the medium of national newspapers that give them a platform to talk to their fans, were supposed to whip the nation into a frenzy, to make this country believe that we can do it against these Angolans, to breathe hope into a project that we all want to be successful.
It’s interesting that I know what Andre “Dede” Ayew, the Ghanaian midfielder, thinks about their 2013 Nations Cup showdown against a plucky Malawi this weekend in Accra.

Of Mambongi, polygamy and hateful names

BACK in the village, in the land of milk, honey and dust or Guruve a tune is made meaning­ful by lyrics or simply put, many analogies and idioms elucidate a point. Only the cock crows. If a hen crows, kill it. They say avoid marrying a proud woman, for she cannot share you with others.

Policeman jailed for theft

Midlands Correspondent

A constable stationed at Mkoba Police Station in Gweru has been sentenced to 16 months in prison by a Gweru magistrate for sneaking into a colleague’s room within the police quarters and stealing a laptop and $200.

Public sex romp man sentenced to community service for assault

Midlands Correspondent

THE Gweru man who was caught being intimate with his girlfriend in a toilet at a food outlet will perform 210 hours of community service after he was found guilty of assaulting a security guard.

Tobacco production set to increase

Tobacco production in Zimbabwe is set to increase next year as seed sufficient to cover 134 000 hectares has been sold while about 46 431 farmers have so far registered to grow the crop next  season.

Minister to lobby for early disbursement of fund

Business Reporter

THE Minister of Industry and Commerce, Professor Welshman Ncube, has pledged to push Cabinet to ensure that the 500 million pula ($64,3 million) credit facility extended  to Zimbabwe by Botswana was availed before the end of the year.

Civil servants groan under micro finance institutions rates

Business Reporter

ECONOMIC hardships being faced by a number of workers earning salaries below the poverty datum line have forced them to go to money lending institutions in a desperate move to make ends meet.

Power cuts affect SMEs operations

Business Reporter

EXCESSIVE power cuts being experienced in the country are contributing to the failure by small to medium enterprises to increase capacity and grow, Small to Medium Enterprises and Cooperative Development Minister Sithembiso Nyoni has said.

Warriors will deliver: Peter

Harare Bureau
FORMER Warriors kingpin Peter Ndlovu said his charges are bracing for a tough assignment against Angola but he is confident that they will get a comfortable result from the first leg, final round qualifier at Rufaro on Sunday.

‘Angola better prepared than Zim’

Dumaza Dube
ANGOLA will go into the first leg of the Africa Cup of Nations final qualifier against Zimbabwe at Rufaro Stadium on Sunday better prepared than the hosts.

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