Celebrating Africa Day

Africa is a great place to live. There is no place like it. It is not a single country but a continent full of dynamism, colour, diversity and wealth. Africa has plenty for its people and a lot to offer the world.

As we celebrate Africa’s heritage, we have the responsibility to confront its challenges and ills. Africa has a great legacy but a shackled and abused past.

EPL confident of June re-start

London. — The Premier League is “as confident as we can be” about England’s top-flight soccer league restarting in June, its chief executive Richard Masters has been quoted as saying.

Sports sponsorship tumbles 37pc

Global sports sponsorship rights fees will fall from US$46,1 billion in 2019 to US$28,9 billion (37 percent year-on-year decrease) in 2020 as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to projections by Two Circles, a global sports marketing agency.

Exchange rate haunts tobacco farmers

Farmers have called on Government to urgently address the issue of currency instability as tobacco growers’ earnings are being eroded by inflation.

An action-packed isolation moment

I was about to leave after a three-day bingeing spree at my nephew’s house in Budiriro when his neighbour alerted us to the presence of “visitors” at the gate.

On investigating, we saw a young lass sitting between two elderly women, with an old, dirty and torn bag within range.

Sneaking through lockdown backdoor

US-based poet, publisher and playwright Thomas Stearns Eliot once said “All our knowledge brings us near to our ignorance, all our ignorance brings us nearer to death, but nearness to death, no nearer to God.”

This seems to be true in light of the goings-on in various communities around the country.

Artistes get a helping hand

ONE hundred and twenty local artistes received food hampers from Pastor Chris Oyakhilome’s Christ Embassy through its local branch on Friday.

Local value chains crucial for growing exports

THE coronavirus pandemic has ushered in a new norm in terms of doing business.

The future of trade is not what we projected it to be.

Zim coach makes Canadian waves

ZIMBABWEAN soccer coach Peter Mapendere continues to make waves in Canada after the enterprising gaffer was recently appointed to the key post of assistant technical director at Ottawa Gloucester Hornets.

The club announced the appointment on their official Facebook page recently.

I want my house back

I am a 36-year-old guy, handsome, self-sufficient and gainfully employed. I am extremely smart to the extent that some describe it as an obsession. I have a two-bedroom garden flat. I take care of everything alone.

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