Derby delight at St John’s College

Don Makanyanga
THERE will be a lot at stake when Harare hockey men’s league log leaders, Hippo, take on PBP Hounds in a derby match set for St John’s College Sunday.

What’s up this weekend . . .

Andrew Moyo Friday Bholato Bholato Charity Concert Harare Gardens comes alive Friday night as the Zim dancehall fraternity comes together for Seh Calaz’s Bholato Bholato Charity Concert. Artistes who are…

Under-20 rugby returns

Sports Reporter

The Harare Province Under-20 rugby league returns this weekend, after a two-week break, with a mixed bag of action at Churchill High School’s Nigel Phillip Field.

President to fast-track Gukurahundi reburials

President Emmerson Mnangagwa is expected to convene a “consensus- building meeting” with Matabeleland traditional leaders soon to co-ordinate and fast-track exhumations and reburials of victims of post-independence civil disturbances that rocked Matabeleland and parts of the Midlands province.

800 Zim nationals in coronavirus lockdown

About 800 Zimbabweans are among the 60 million people that are living in Hubei province — the epicentre of the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak — but all of them are currently safe from the respiratory disease, the Zimbabwe Embassy in China has confirmed.

ED’s re-engagement drive commendable

President Mnangagwa’s local engagement and re-engagement drive has gone a long way in bringing to the fore issues of national interest while seeking to bring healing, understanding and even active participation by stakeholders where this was not necessarily the case in the previous dispensation.

Harare drowns in $80m water chemicals debt

Taps in the capital, Harare, have run dry over the past month, greatly inconveniencing residents, as the Harare City Council (HCC) is failing to settle a $80 million debt to local suppliers of water treatment chemicals.

ED’s re-engagement drive commendable

President Mnangagwa’s local engagement and re-engagement drive has gone a long way in bringing to the fore issues of national interest while seeking to bring healing, understanding and even active participation by stakeholders where this was not necessarily the case in the previous dispensation.

Green revolution charms Kode

CAPS UNITED legend Joe “Kode” Mugabe’s much awaited biography is almost done and naturally Makepekepe, the club that gave him fame, features prominently in that account.

Now 51, Mugabe who transformed himself from a little-known Churchill High School boy from Mabvuku high-density suburb into a distinguished servant of CAPS United, now stays in Reading, England, but his blood has remained green over the decades.

RBZ confronts vestiges of USD

The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) is devising strategies to entrench de-dollarisation in the informal sector where most transactions are being done in US dollars.

The central bank’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) was due to meet on Friday to craft effective strategies to bring on board informal players into the process of de-dollarisation, which the bank says has recorded encouraging success in the formal sector.

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