AU gets first woman secretary
ADDIS Ababa. — The chairwoman of the African Union (AU) Commission, Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, has appointed Djeneba Diarra, as the secretary-general of the AU Commission, it said on Tuesday.
Mutare City Rovers put house in order
Ray Bande Senior Weekender Reporter AFTER losing by a paltry two points in the race for Premiership promotion last season, Mutare City Rovers have now put almost everything in place…
Climate Smart Trust assists tobacco farmers
Mercy Ngwebvu CLIMATE Smart Trust has secured a bay at Boka Tobacco Floors where they are helping tobacco farmers who sustainably cured their crop to sell it for higher prices…
Cuba hails removal from US terror list
HAVANA. — Cuban officials and ordinary citizens alike hailed the island’s removal from the US list of state sponsors of terrorism, saying the move by President Barack Obama heals a…
President Mugabe champion of land reform
Suitable Kajau Upon attainment of Independence on 18 April 1980, Zimbabwe tumbled onto a racially skewed agricultural land ownership structure where the minority white large-scale commercial farmers, constituting less than…
April 18 1980: Bob Marley on stage
Weekender Reporter ON April 18, 1980, Bob Marley and the Wailers were afforded the highest honour of their musical careers. Zimbabwe was to celebrate its independence from Britain and Bob…
‘Independence removed bottlenecks in sport’
Ray Bande Senior Sports Reporter WHEN Obadiah Sarupinda became the first black player for the predominantly white Rhodesia national team, it was simply because of the colour of our skin…
Man confesses to chilling murder
Abel Zhakata Senior Reporter A ZIMUNYA man has confessed to gruesomely killing a seven-year-old boy from the village, implicating three other accomplices who apparently were working at the behest of…
SA xenophobic attacks: Tale of fear and shame
STANDING in the middle of this football field that has been turned into a refugee camp overnight in Chartsworth, one cannot help but feel ashamed of being South African.
Govt’s Chiadzwa decision lauded
Diamond firms to merge into one entity Ngoni Dapira ANALYSTS have welcomed the Government’s decision to merge all Chiadzwa diamond companies into one entity, the Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company.

