adminInjiva invade Beitbridge
Mashudu Netsianda
BEITBRIDGE Border Post was yesterday a hive of activity as travellers, mostly Zimbabweans working in South Africa commonly known as injiva, started trickling into the country for the festive season.
Bosso should not fret over Champions League yet
The year 2012 will undoubtedly go down in history as one season that Highlanders followers would love to remember.
Despite failing to win the championship, the team roared back into contention for the title and narrowly lost out on goal difference to Dynamos, a clear indication that the Bulawayo giants had arisen from their deep slumber.
After a seventh finish and a fourth finish in the previous two years, Highlanders players finally remembered what it means to play for a big institution and gave it all, thanks to a new culture brought in by new coach Kelvin Kaindu and chairman, Peter Dube.
The team also benefited much from the sponsorship from their principal partners BancABC who also take care of the key financial issues at Dynamos, leaving the clubs to worry about player incentives and other costs, with the bulk of costs of monthly salaries for players and coaches as well as camping costs being taken care of by BancABC.
Bleak year for Bulawayo film industry
Bruce Ndlovu
Bulawayo has a long-standing tradition of film making that over the years has strengthened the city’s status as the country’s cultural hub.
Very often the country has had to turn to Bulawayo for screenplays that tackle head-on hot issues of the day. Films from Bulawayo have thus become a mirror where ordinary Zimbabweans have an opportunity to see realistic renditions of their lives on the small screen.
Madhuku blasts MDC-T
Innocent Madonko recently in Kadoma
NATIONAL Constitutional Assembly chairman Professor Lovemore Madhuku has launched a blistering attack on the MDC-T led by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, describing its leadership as lacking principles and out to enrich themselves at the expense of the masses.
Addressing editors and senior political reporters at an election reporting workshop in Kadoma on Thursday, Prof Madhuku took a swipe at the MDC-T top brass and singled out Mr Tsvangirai and secretary general Mr Tendai Biti, saying “they are out there to make money for themselves” and are “liars”.
Mukamba crowned soccer star
Eddie Chikamhi
Dynamos midfielder Denver Mukamba was last last night crowned the Castle Lager Premier Soccer League Soccer Star of the Year at a colourful banquet in Harare.
Mukamba emerged the season’s finest after fending off the challenge of Highlanders’ slippery attacking midfielder Masimba Mambare and Ronald Chitiyo of Monomotapa who came second and third respectively.
The lanky midfielder, who turns 20 next Friday, got an early birthday present as he walked away with the coveted trophy and a $5 000 cheque.
Chindungwe named Chicken Inn player of the year
Lovemore dube
THIS year’s Soccer Star of the Year finalists’ selectors got another nod of approval for the brilliant work when Chicken Inn crowned defender Felix Chindungwe their player for 2012.
The centreback walked away $1 500 richer at a function kept secret by the club.
Chicken Inn management took its players to an abattoir in Umguza where they had a low profile function attended by players, administrators and workers from the sponsoring company.
Chindungwe received $1 000 from the club with $500 added on by a supporter.
Bosso still to decide on manager, coaches’ fate
Sikhumbuzo Moyo
THE Highlanders executive will soon meet to deliberate on the fate of first team manager and junior coaches whose contracts are expiring at the end of this month.
Also affected are Kelvin Kaindu’s assistants Tembo Tshuma and Bekithemba Ndlovu.
Welfare manager, Ami Soma-Phiri signed a one-year contract early this year when he took over from Jerry Sibanda, now interim club treasurer.
PERSPECTIVE: Beware of wrath of God
An address to journalists in Bulawayo by America’s new Ambassador to Zimbabwe earlier this week might have thrown some sliver of light on any new improved relations hoped for between Zimbabwe and the United States, but for the Double Speak that it turns out to be.
Ambassador Bruce Wharton said his Government now understood that it has no mandate to interfere in the internal politics of the country.
But surely, does the American envoy think any reasonable Zimbabwean will swallow that kind of stuff when their lives have been rendered miserable through illegal economic sanctions imposed by the US and her allies, causing company closures and loss of income for their bread winners as punishment for introducing land reform by the Zanu-PF Government?
Agency embarks on search for comic queens
Emmanuel Ndlovu
THE genre of stand-up comedy is fast growing and taking shape in the country.
However, it lacks diversity probably due to the absence of comic queens as it is male-dominated.
There is need for female comedians to crack jokes from a feminine point of view in order to spice it up and strike gender balance.
EDITORIAL COMMENT: Ensure swift response to disaster situations
The flash floods which hit Tsholotsho District in Matabeleland North recently should serve as a warning to the Civil Protection Unit. The CPU should ensure that its structures at the different levels are ready to respond to disasters such as floods. Tsholotsho like Muzarabani in Mashonaland Central province is prone to floods.
The CPU structures at both provincial and district level in these areas should therefore be ready to respond to distress calls. In Tsholotsho there are villagers settled on the banks of the Gwayi River and each time the area is hit by floods, they are the worst affected. The CPU committees at provincial and district level should be on the ground assessing the situation in the flood prone areas in order to take preventive measures.