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Ellina Mhlanga Sports Reporter TRIATHLON Zimbabwe are looking at staging a few training events in preparation of the 2020-2021 season they hope could get underway next month. The season usually…
. . . activist in court over death threats to Speaker
MDC Alliance political activist and City of Gweru employee, Tamuka Denhere, whose party claimed on social media that he had been abducted a few days ago, yesterday appeared at the Harare Magistrates’ Courts facing charges of threatening to kill National Assembly Speaker Advocate Jacob Mudenda for announcing the recall of opposition legislators from Parliament.
Reading to children is important
When parents or care givers read to children, the children begin to understand the world around them and make new connections.
‘Batoka Gorge won’t displace people’
As preliminary work on the 2 400MW Batoka Gorge Hydro Electric Scheme gathers momentum, consultancy findings on the Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) show that there will be no need for displacements of people and therefore no need to compensation anyone.
Hope in resilient ‘Flowers of a Dry Season’
Good poetry should be therapeutic, astounding, engaging, evocative, thought provoking, addictive and challenging. Poetry should transcend limitations of geographical and social boundaries to capture universal aspirations of both the common man, and the man of means alike.
How to ‘plaid’ stripes and checkers
Just another sunny week has passed, well the summer fashion vibes are coming out.
Police decry surge in quarantine escapees
A returning resident who recently escaped from quarantine at Panganani Centre in Plumtree has been arrested near Figtree and is the 31st of 302 returnees who escaped quarantine and have been arrested.
Low uptake for tobacco technology
THE Tobacco Research Board (TRB) has intensified training on the use of the float bed seedling production system after low uptake of the technology by farmers because of lack of knowledge.
A prize-winning novelist, a bad concussion and loss of memory
My daughter and I were playing tag, or a kind of tag. Before that, we traced the letter P and we danced to James Brown’s “I feel good,” a song she selected from the iPod. We laughed as we danced, she with a natural rhythm striking for a 4-year-old, and I with my irretrievable gracelessness. Next on our plan was “Sesame Street.” It was about 2 pm on May 28. A day complacent with the promise of no surprises, like all the other days of the lockdown, shrunken days with shrivelled routines.
Grave digger’s family feels insulted
AFTER working for nearly a decade as a grave digger for a local authority, one would expect a free grave and funeral services from the employer upon their demise.