adminLiberian leader issues self defence
LONDON — Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the Liberian president, has dismissed allegations of corruption as rumours and innuendoes as she mounted a strong defence of her personal integrity. Johnson Sirleaf, in London for the UN high-level panel on the post-2015 development agenda,Blood, gore and US election
Bill Van AukenWith barely a week-and-a-half to go until the November 6 US presidential elections, the entire spectrum of the American pseudo-left is exerting maximum efforts to turn out votes for Obama with the claim that the re-election of the incumbent Democrat would represent the “lesser of two
Violence not the way to register displeasure
Ruth ButaumochoAccording to the story, the wife was tipped off that her husband had been spotted at a lodge in town where was having quality time with his girlfriend. As in the the adage, “hell hath no fury like a woman scorned,” the wife went to the girlfriend’s house where she had a scuffle with her
Indigenisation not for Zanu-PF per se
Keith GuzahAlthough under normal circumstances, democracy should be about freedom of expression and association, among others but in Zimbabwe the academic environment has become extremely polarised regarding indigenization and economic empowerment because Zanu-PF has been at the
Monomotapa hike gate charges
Eddie Chikamhi Sports ReporterMONOMOTAPA have followed in Dynamos’ footsteps by hiking gate charges for the high-profile Castle Lager Premier Soccer League match against the championship front-runners at Rufaro this Sunday. Club chairman, Joseph Mukoki, yesterday said the 2008 champions were granted
Hockey manager calls for greater investment
Ellina Mhlanga Sports ReporterZIMBABWE Under-21 hockey team manager, Stacy Logan, has called for greater investment if the sport is to reach the heights they scaled just before the turn of the millennium. Hockey has been on a decline and is a far cry from the sport that won the country’s first Olympic gold medal in 1980.
Mangwiro gets 10yr ban
Grace Chingoma and Godknows Matarutse Sports ReportersCAPS United coach Taurai Magwiro and three other officials have been slapped with 10-year bans from all football-related activities by Zifa in the latest sanctions to come out of the Asiagate match-fixing scandal. Mangwiro, Monomotapa team manager Clayton Munemo, former club treasurer,
Mapeza wins Zifa case
Daniel Nemukuyu Senior ReporterAN arbitrator has ruled that the indefinite suspension of former Warriors’ head coach, Norman Mapeza, on allegations of match-fixing and illegal betting was unlawful and ordered Zifa to pay him salaries and benefits from February this year to April 2014. Arbitrator, Caleb Mucheche, said
Govt scoffs at white former farmers’ threats
Tendai Mugabe Senior ReporterGovernment has dismissed as “empty”, threats by a group of white former farmers who say they want to seize Zimbabwe’s assets in the United Kingdom as compensation for farms acquired for redistribution to landless black Zimbabweans. The group said it had already approached British
2 hospitals top in lab facilities
Health ReporterCHITUNGWIZA Central Hospital and City of Harare’s Beatrice Road Infectious Diseases Hospitals have best laboratory services in Zimbabwe, a recent assessment has revealed. The assessment conducted by the Zimbabwe National Quality Assurance Trust in the past 18 months among 19