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Herald ReporterHarare City authorities were yesterday evening locked in a closed door meeting deliberating on the water crisis that has hit most high-density suburbs.
City spokesperson Mr Lesley Gwindi said he would update the residents after the meeting that was expected to end late in the night. There is growing
Teenager rapes grandma (80)
Masvingo BureauAn 18-year-old Zaka man allegedly raped an 80-year-old woman as punishment for spurning his love proposal. The teenager from Nhema communal lands allegedly dragged the granny into a bushy area and raped her once after she turned down his love overtures last Sunday. Masvingo provincial
All stakeholders conference dates set
Herald ReporterThe second all stakeholders conference will be held from October 21 to 23, Constitutional and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Eric Matinenga has said.
Principals to the Global Political Agreement will open the conference. The conference will give delegates drawn from political parties and civic society,
Hlahla back to his roots
Grace Chingoma Sports ReporterWHEN he left the football scene two years ago, Lloyd Hlahla simply disappeared. Many fans probably didn’t notice that he had left and, as often happens in this beautiful game, embraced other new heroes and moved on. The former schoolboy prodigy quietly traded boots for chalk and is
Blue Rangers beat City
Godknows Matarutse Sports ReporterHarare City . . . . . . . . . . . .0) 0
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DAVID Temwanjira scored a brace as Blue Rangers kept alive their chances of surviving relegation after dismissing Harare City in a Castle Lager
Bubbly Buffaloes ready
From Paul Mundandi in ZvishavaneSAUL Chaminuka, the Buffaloes coach, has promised a gloomy Sunday for the Chinda Boys fans in what should be an explosive Castle Lager Premiership match at Maglas Stadium tomorrow. Buffaloes, who have surprised many seasoned observers with their strong campaign, won the first
CAPS face resurgent Monoz
Augustine Hwata Sports ReporterTAURAI MANGWIRO’S world seemed to have collapsed around him at the beginning of August when he was fired by Monomotapa following a fallout with the club’s management. It marked the end of a three-and-a-half year relationship for the coach who had joined the club from Masvingo United.
Salvation Army transfers commander
Peter Matambanadzo Senior ReporterThe Salvation Army Territorial Commander for Zimbabwe, Commissioner Vinece Chigariro, has been transferred to Kenya. The transfer comes at a time when the church’s International Headquarters has sent an audit team to investigate allegations of fraud and mismanagement of donor funds.
MDC-T: A crisis of command
Was it Antonio Gramsci who wrote: “ . . . intellectuals have the function of organising the social hegemony of a group and that group’s domination of the state . . . the function of organising the consent that comes from the prestige attached to the function in the world of production and the apparatus of coercion for those who do not ‘consent’ either actively or passively or for those moments of crisis of command and leadership when spontaneous consent undergoes a crisis”?
If it was Gramsci, as indeed I think it was, then this Italian Marxist social scientist was remarkably prescient. I put particular accent on the last part, namely the part to do with the role of intellectuals fastened onto a movement, particularly in “those moments of crisis of commandant leadership
KS Cracovia couldn’t manage the onslaught and decided not to sign Majabvi and, just like that, the deal was dead
But the Lord works in a lot of mysterious ways and, for all the challenges he faced in Poland where, by default, he turned into the public face of Asiagate in Europe, and all the devils who stalked him to South Africa, God opened a window for him in Vietnam and, today, Justice Majabvi is singing his redemption song.Polish football has had a long relationship with Zimbabwe since Wieslaw Grabow-ski landed in this country in the ’80s and used his connections in his motherland to provide a base for a number of our players.
Norman Mapeza is probably the one with the highest profile, among the scores of Zimbabweans who ended up playing in Poland, who include