adminD-Day for league giants
Eddie Chikamhi Sports ReporterTHE two leaders are on the road today, in tricky and difficult assignments, and after weeks of relentlessly stalking each other, something could change this afternoon. Dynamos versus Chicken Inn at Barbourfields and Highlanders versus Hwange at the Colliery – one of the two giants could slip this afternoon.
Roddy feels the pain Godknows Matarutse
Sports ReporterWARRIORS’ striker, Rodwell Chinyengetere, says he is going through the worst period of his promising career after suffering a horrific injury that rules him out of the 2013 Nations Cup qualifier against Angola in Luanda next month. The Hwange forward suffered a double fracture on his shin last week following a nasty collision with
Masomere wary of Mambas
From Paul Mundandi in ZVISHAVANESHABANIE coach, Luke Masomere, says he will treat Black Mambas with a lot of respect ahead of their Castle Lager Premiership tie at Maglas today. Masomere saw his charges battle long and hard before falling to a solitary goal against Highlanders at Barbourfields. “Mambas are a police team. Police and soldiers work with the
In support of the liberation movements
Albert NhamoyebondeAn article in the latest South African Sunday Times makes a mockery of the liberation movements, faulting them for lack of economic development. What the writer implied was that the politics of the liberation movements was the sole problem of a democratic society which denies all and sundry to share power.
SA miners dead men walking
Windhoek. — When more than 1 000 mine workers, demanding a minimum wage of ten shillings (R1) gathered at Johannesburg’s Market Square on August 4, 1946, the Guardian newspaper reportedly quoted one old miner addressing fellow workers thus:“When I think of how we left our homes in the reserves, our
The Herald most complete, balanced newspaper — Survey
Farirai Machivenyika Senior Reporter
The Herald has maintained its position as Zimbabwe’s most widely read daily newspaper despite further decline in readership across all stables.
According to the latest Zimbabwe All Media Products Survey (Zamps) for the third quarter of the year,
The Herald maintained its pole position with a readership of 31 percent.
The Herald’s readership stood at 799 950 while that of the Daily News and NewsDay stood at 571 581 and 558 678 respectively. The Daily News and NewsDay were tied at 22 percent.
H-Metro’s readership stood at 542 211 (21 percent), while that of B-Metro was 227 273 (9 percent).
A total of 301 392 people tune in to Star FM with Power FM still on top with 829 455 while ZiFM has 85 331 listeners.
At least 1 053 805 people now have access to Internet.
Newspaper readership, however, declined to 59 percent in the quarter under review.
The survey was carried out between July and September, focusing on urban dwellers aged over 15 years.
Surveys for this year’s first and second quarters were, however, not held due to financial constraints.
The readership for The Herald declined from 35 percent recorded in last year’s third quarter.
The NewsDay readership dropped from 26 percent recorded during the same period to 22 percent.
The Herald’s sister newspaper in the southern region, Chronicle, and the Daily News were the only newspapers that recorded marginal increases.
Chronicle’s readership increased from 12 percent to 13 percent, while the Daily News improved from 21 percent to 22 percent respectively.
Online readership of The Herald increased from 1 percent to 3 percent.
The survey revealed that the general daily newspaper readership declined from 64 percent recorded in the third quarter of 2011 to the current 59 percent
Readership for H-Metro declined from 23 percent to 21 percent while that of B-Metro stayed at 9 percent.
Zamps said The Herald is a complete and balanced paper that attracts all adult age groups from 15 years to over 65 years.
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From Caesar Zvayi in New York
SADC facilitator to the Global Political Agreement, South African
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EveleneTaadiraGovernment’S bilharzia and intestinal worm drug administering campaign, which was launched last week, failed to yield maximum results owing to acute drug shortages. Director of Disease Control in the Ministry of Health and Child Welfare Dr Portia Manangazira said in an interview on Monday
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Speaking to journalists during a media workshop on women and children reporting in Nyanga last week, Unicef chief of water, sanitation and hygiene
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A few weeks ago I had the privilege of fishing with Alex, a 70-year-old who has been earning a living through fishing for the last 40 years. Prior to taking up fishing as a profession, Alex worked as a loader for six months and used his earnings to buy fishing equipment that got him started. As