adminYaya Toure issues Man City quit threat
LONDON – Yaya Toure’s agent has claimed that the Ivorian superstar is ready to tell Manchester City he is leaving if a new deal is not concluded by this weekend.Toure’s representative Dimitri Seluk says talks have been ongoing for six months over an extension to his current deal, which runs to 2015.
Kevin Pietersen out with knee injury
AUCKLAND – England batsman Kevin Pietersen has been ruled out for six to eight weeks with an injury to his right knee.The 32-year-old will miss England’s final Test cricket against New Zealand, which starts today.
203 nations set off on Road to Rio 2014
LONDON – A whopping 203 nations from every corner of the globe set off on the Road to Rio, all with hopes and dreams of being among the elite 32 in Brazil for the World Cup soccer finals next summer.
MIPF boss resigns
Business Reporter
MINING Industry Pension Fund chairman Mr James Maposa has resigned amid reports of mounting pressure over the suspension of the fund’s principal officer.
Mr Maposa had been at the helm of the US$123 million fund for six years.
More Airzim regional flights
Rumbidzayi Zinyuke Business ReporterAIR ZIMBABWE will in the next two weeks start offering daily flights to Johannesburg, Harare and Bulawayo when the servicing of one of its two A320 airbuses and an MA60 aircraft currently now underway has been completed.
Bid to recover DW assets fails
Business Reporter
DAVID Whitehead’s provisional judicial manager Mr Winsley Militala said he failed to recover assets allegedly stripped by some shareholders due to lack of documentary evidence.
“The absence of credible financial records and supporting vouchers meant that my investigations into alleged misappropriation of company assets, though vigorously pursued by
Youth bank on cards
Rumbidzayi Zinyuke Business Reporter
THE Zimbabwe Youth Empowerment and Development is making plans to form a bank that will provide microfinance solutions to youth-led start-up and existing businesses countrywide.
Work-related accidents up
GOVERNMENT yesterday said workplace deaths and injuries resulting from accidents had increased inspite of the economy’s contraction.Statistics show a total of 107 accidental work-related deaths and 5 141 injuries were recorded last year compared to 75 fatalities and 4 158 injuries in 2011.
Local firm strikes Singapore deal
Business Reporter
KNEE Deep Investments, a local private firm, has sealed a deal with Singaporean vehicles trader Kheng Keng Auto in a development that will see the Zimbabwean company procuring pre-owned vehicles cars at vastly discounted prices.
The great gym deception
Zachary Aldwin
Gyms have to be filled with the biggest load of body dysmorphics in the world; each trying to achieve some Adonis inspired impossibility of perfection and becoming even more dysmorphic in the process.