admin‘Give us fights, sponsorship and see wonders’
Lovemore Dube
“GIVE us fights and avail sponsorship then boxing will be back on track,” this was a bold declaration by veteran boxing trainer Phillip “Striker” Ndlovu.
Bev’s magnet slowly attracting women
Bruce Ndlovu
Very few artistes possess the ability to repulse and captivate at the same time.
In the field of sport, politics or the arts, there are a few individuals with the capability to titillate and frustrate at the same time. Footballer Mario Ballotelli, the irrepressible boxer Mike Tyson and the sensual Hollywood actress Marilyn Monroe are some of the individuals who down the years have grabbed the front pages with both their heroic acts, but also with epic moments of wayward behaviour.
Nust’s Delta lecture theatre re-opens
Chronicle Reporter
THE National University of Science and Technology (Nust)’s Delta Lecture Theatre has been re-opened following the completion of its renovations by Delta Beverages.
Injiva torches former lover
Gwanda Correspondent
A GWANDA woman is battling for life after an injiva, her former lover, poured petrol all over her body and set her alight following an undisclosed dispute, police confirmed yesterday.
Man exposes manhood to mother
Midlands Correspondent
A Chirumanzu barman courted trouble with the law when he exposed his swollen manhood to his mother after engaging in an act of sodomy with a friend whom he alleged had abused him.
Swiss test for Mharakurwa
From Fatima Bulla in London
ZIMBABWE’S representative for wheelchair tennis at the London 2012 Paralympic Games, Nyasha Mharakurwa, will play Swiss Yann Avanthey today when they take to the courts at Eton Manor as he makes his debut at the grand stage.
Man U rely on Van Persie in Rooney’s absence
Manchester United will need new signing Robin van Persie to shoulder the goal-scoring burden when they travel to promoted Southampton in the Premier League tomorrow without the injured Wayne Rooney.
Is it to do with the colour green?
When I was a kid, I would visit my rural home during school holidays and away from the hustle and bustle of the streets of Mpopoma I would find peace, but most importantly, something new every day in the dense forests of the family plot in Filabusi. I prefer to call it ko Godlwayo.
Abject poverty led to the Marikana shooting
Opinion
Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu
The shooting to death of 34 black miners by South African security forces at Marikana during a strike recently has led many social scientists to ask: What has gone wrong with the 17-year old national democratic state that succeeded the ill-fated Boer-dominated white minority apartheid regime?
Creatures of comfort must go
Perspective
Stephen Mpofu
MPs representing rural constituencies must be fretting and frothing at the mouth by day, turning and twisting in their beds by night as they smart from a broadside fired by a chief last week.