Teacher jailed two years for cracking pupil’s forehead

Michael Magoronga, Midlands Correspondent A 51-YEAR-OLD teacher who smashed a Grade One pupil against a desk, inflicting a deep cut on the girl’s forehead was last week sentenced to two years…

Catholic Church celebrates Pope’s Day in Bulawayo

Sindisiwe Sibanda, Sunday News Reporter THOUSANDS of Catholics, including bishops from all the country’s dioceses will converge on St Mary’s Cathedral Basilica in Bulawayo today to join the rest of the…

Drying water sources a threat to livestock

Dumisani Nsingo, Senior Farming Reporter  MOST farmers are in danger of losing their livestock especially cattle due to the effects of drought as the country continues to experience a dry spell,…

Fireworks expected at Cowdray Park this morning

Mandla Moyo, Sports Reporter BULAWAYO Social Soccer League games continue this afternoon across town as the league reaches Match Day six. All games kick off at 1000hrs. In Cowdray Park fireworks…

A passionate Harare derby: Dynamos v Caps

DYNAMOS have not been sold and the club will remain Dynamos FC, not RG Dynamos as has been wildly speculated following the one million dollar per season deal signed between the Harare giants and Gold Leaf Tobacco last week.

‘I am my father’s protégé’

ON August 22 1983, Oliver Mtukudzi and Melody Murape were blessed with a second daughter — they named her Selmor. Together with her older sister Sandra, the young family of four lived in Eastlea, Harare.

You are created to build great things

MY grandfather was a builder.
He built in his time. My uncles became builders. They learnt from a building father. My father worked for a building contractor. As time passes, I realise that I was also, like you too, born to build, but perhaps a different kind of building.

Mutema’s urgent appeal

ITS been roughly 17 years since Alice Mutema sat at the helm of Zimbabwe netball. And since relinquishing her crown in 2002, she has sat quietly on the terraces watching with a heavy heart as the sport first made positive steps in the right direction only to later shoot itself in the foot. A former assistant chief editor and newscaster at the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation and Star FM’s head of news, Mutema also served as the Zimbabwe Netball Association’s president between 1992 and 2002.

Dismantling corporate colonialism, oligopolies, cartels and endemic corruption

In November 2018, His Excellency, President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa, boldly declared the open and unrelenting warfare against the evil of endemic corruption.

International Women’s Day fact box

How did the International Women’s Day start?

It’s difficult to exactly say when the IWD — as it’s known — began. Its roots can be traced to 1908, when 15 000 women marched through New York City demanding voting rights, better pay and shorter working hours. A year later, the first National Woman’s Day was observed in the US on February 28, in accordance with a declaration by the Socialist Party of America. In 1910, a woman called Clara Zetkin — leader of the ‘women’s office’ for the Social Democratic Party in Germany — tabled the idea of an International Women’s Day.

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