Man U rely on Van Persie in Rooney’s absence
Manchester United will need new signing Robin van Persie to shoulder the goal-scoring burden when they travel to promoted Southampton in the Premier League tomorrow without the injured Wayne Rooney.
Is it to do with the colour green?
When I was a kid, I would visit my rural home during school holidays and away from the hustle and bustle of the streets of Mpopoma I would find peace, but most importantly, something new every day in the dense forests of the family plot in Filabusi. I prefer to call it ko Godlwayo.
Abject poverty led to the Marikana shooting
Opinion
Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu
The shooting to death of 34 black miners by South African security forces at Marikana during a strike recently has led many social scientists to ask: What has gone wrong with the 17-year old national democratic state that succeeded the ill-fated Boer-dominated white minority apartheid regime?
Creatures of comfort must go
Perspective
Stephen Mpofu
MPs representing rural constituencies must be fretting and frothing at the mouth by day, turning and twisting in their beds by night as they smart from a broadside fired by a chief last week.
Injury-free Bosso face The Bulls
Sikhumbuzo Moyo
HIGHLANDERS are fully geared up for their blockbuster Castle Lager Premier Soccer League clash with bogey side Motor Action at Barbourfields Stadium tomorrow and will not let anything distract them .
World Bank chief to visit Africa in September
WASHINGTON — World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim will visit Africa next month in his first official visit outside the United States since taking up his new position in July this year, the Washington-based World Bank announced in a statement Thursday.
Real seek league upturn
Having claimed the season’s first piece of silverware with victory over Barcelona in the Spanish Super Cup, Real Madrid return to domestic action needing to close a five-point deficit on the Catalans in La Liga.
Suspensions dog PSL
Senior Sports Reporter
CONFUSION surrounds the suspension of some players for the weekend’s Castle Lager Premier Soccer League matches.
Radebe asks NPA to explain Marikana charges
The NPA must explain why the 270 arrested Marikana miners are facing murder charges, Justice Minister Jeff Radebe said.
Woman refuses to be divorced
Chronicle Reporter
A Bulawayo woman left the High Court stunned when she declared that she did not want her husband, whom she has been married to for just 16 months, to divorce her.





