adminRooney suffers hamstring injury, out for a month
BANGKOK. — Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney will be out of action for a month after sustaining a hamstring injury on the club’s tour of Asia.Rooney suffered the problem during a training session yesterday and when scans showed there was no chance he would be able to play during the tour, the England star was sent
Aussies’ Agar lights up Ashes
NOTTINGHAM. — Teenage Australia debutant Ashton Agar fell agonisingly short of becoming the first Test match No 11 to score a century as he frustrated England with a record-breaking 98 on the second day of the Ashes opener at Trent Bridge yesterday.Michael Songore fails in 100m bid
Sports ReporterZIMBABWE’S Michael Songore failed in his bid reach the finals of the boys’ 100m at the International Association of Athletics World Youth Championship in Donetsk, Ukraine, last night.
How to change your brake pads
Fact Jeke Behind the WheelRecently I had a bad experience with my usual mechanic after I asked him to fit new brakes on my vehicle.
After assuring me that the job was complete I went about my business but as I was driving down Second Street I applied brakes as I was approaching an intersection and I
Gary Kasparov in Zimbabwe
Augustine Hwata Sports ReporterFORMER world chess champion Gary Kasparov, considered by many as the greatest player of all time, made a brief stopover in Harare yesterday as part of his Kasparov Chess Foundation Global Reach.
Why countries should adopt CSDs
Nyasha Mukura and Campbell MusiwaWhat are the benefits of a Centralised Securities Depository? What is the value proposition for CSDs? Why should organisations and countries invest significant resources in terms of time, money, people and technology to set up and maintain CSDs?
Copa-Cola tournament on
Ellina Mhlanga Sports ReporterFIREWORKS are expected in Mutare with 24 schools set to battle it out in the Copa Coca-Cola boys Under-16 and girls 17-and-Under football tournament.
Mzingwane and Vainona are the defending champions in the boys and girls sections while the host Sakubva 1 High will field a boys and girls team.
ZEC has shown the way
We read with interest that Zimbabwe has once again beaten economic giants such as South Africa and Nigeria by maintaining highest literacy rates in Africa.This is most welcome and points to our inherent capacity for leadership on the continent.
Recent trends in protectionism
Economic booms, financial crises and the effects of globalisation have resulted in many countries adopting deposit protection schemes with others changing the role of their respective deposit protection schemes.
A gem set high up in the mountains
Isdore Guvamombe Tourism MatrixFrom the hotel verandah, there is an eye-jostling sweep of colours from flourishing vegetation that knows no season.
Here monkeys and baboons chat, quarrel among themselves while swinging nonchalantly and effortlessly on tree branches, as if the world belongs to them.