Football’s absence is a step into the darkness
Chris Jones ESPN Senior Writer KANSAS CITY. — The last professional football we watched together, before the coronavirus emptied the streets and the stadiums, was the 70th minute of Liverpool’s…
Zanu PF eyes Chegutu Ward 2 by-election win
Heather Charema Mashonaland West Correspondent Zanu PF says it is determined to win the Chegutu urban ward 2 seat in the by-election set for today so that it can implement…
PSL clubs bleeding to death
Eddie Chikamhi Senior Sports Reporter CAPS UNITED vice-president, Nhamo Tutisani, has expressed fears local Premiership football clubs could bleed to death if leaders don’t come up with sweeping interventions. The…
Congolese Soukous legend Mabele dies
Congolese music superstar, Aurlus Mabélé, commonly referred to as the “King of Soukous” breathed his last in Paris, France on Thursday. Unconfirmed reports indicate he succumbed to coronavirus. Africa Tembelea,…
Moyo rallies Platinum Queens
Ellina Mhlanga Sports Reporter PLATINUM Queens vice-captain, Progress Moyo, is confident they can challenge for honours in the Rainbow Amateur Netball League this season. Three rounds of matches have been…
WRB suspend tournaments
Sports Reporter THE World Rugby Sevens Challenger Series, where Zimbabwe had a fine run, have been put on hold. This was announced by World Rugby in response to the global…
Dairibord Schools Rugby Festival postponed
Sports Reporter THE country’s biggest schools rugby showcases, the Dairibord Schools Rugby Festival, has become the latest event to be affected by the coronavirus lockdown. Organisers yesterday announced the postponement…
Music, fashion inseparable
Tafadzwa Zimoyo Fashion 263 Another week has passed and hope you achieved what you had planned to do. Like they say, in order to be irreplaceable you must be different. Just…
British arrests man for ‘failure to self-isolates’
LONDON. — Police yesterday made their first arrest linked to coronavirus quarantining after a 26-year-old man was held for allegedly failing to self-isolate.
Guns that silenced history’s villains
Towards the end of the First Chimurenga in 1896, Cecil John Rhodes convened an indaba with Matabele chiefs, and among them was a young traditional leader, who asked a valid and pertinent question: “Where are we to live when it is over? The white man claims all the land” (Vere Stent cited in Julie Frederikse’s “None But Ourselves”, 1990).






