MADINDA COMES TO TOWN

THE last time Madinda Ndlovu graced the National Sports Stadium, he received a standing ovation from a huge and colourful crowd after his tricks charmed supporters during an exhibition match between Zimbabwe and Barcelona Legends.

UPDATED: Police Comm-Gen Matanga apologises

Police are investigating a case in which two people were killed in Harare on Thursday night following mayhem caused by an ill-advised decision by MDC-T-led Harare City Council to ban commuter omnibuses from the central business district (CBD).

Khupe rejects Chamisa

MDC-T co-vice president Advocate Nelson Chamisa’s efforts to reach out to his rival and co-vice president Dr Thokozani Khupe failed yesterday after she and national chairperson Mr Lovemore Moyo snubbed two party meetings that he had called.

UPDATED: Zimsec O-Level results out

November 2017 Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) Ordinary Level results were released yesterday and will be ready for collection on Monday, with the examinations board indicating that English Language Paper 1 had better quality results compared to the November 2016 paper.

EDITORIAL COMMENT: It’s our show, let’s make the best of it

NEXT Sunday, the first ball in the battle for a place at the 2019 ICC Cricket World Cup finals in England and Wales will be bowled at the refurbished Queens Sports Club in Bulawayo when Zimbabwe begin their adventure with a date against Nepal.

ZEC wins BVR kits tender challenge

The Administrative Court has upheld a decision by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) to award a tender to a New York-based company, IPSIDY, to supply a biometric voter registration (BVR) de-duplication hardware and software.

95pc of farmers paid for grain

Pamela Shumba Senior Reporter THE Grain Marketing Board (GMB) has had more than one million tonnes of grain delivered to its depots countrywide during the 2017/ 2018 marketing season, while…

Why Soul Jah Love didn’t deserve Song of the Year Nama

There is something enigmatic about the epic song “Pamamonya Ipapo” by Soul Jah Love which didn’t need to be touched. An intangible magic that no-one can put their fingers on and whose pulse even the most disciplined of fingers cannot feel.

A dead man, a rebel leader and a Ndebele girl

Zimbabweans are being psyched up for harmonised elections due later this year. That is the dominant message, along with the Biometric Voter Registration exercise.

EVER HEARD OF THE POWER OF THE CHURCH OF MARADONA AND IT’S 800 000 MEMBERSHIP ACROSS THE WORLD? . . . That’s the power of football, yet just 15 years later, we’re forgotten our heroes

FOR them, it only happened once, right on their doorstep in the glorious summer of ’66 when they won the only World Cup they have had the privilege to host, after beating their wartime foes Germany at Wembley in a final pregnant with both sporting and political undertones.