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  • Zimbabwe seeks Dubai diamonds deal

    Zimbabwe's state-owned mining firm is seeking an agreement to distribute diamonds directly to Dubai without breaking rules against the sale of gems from its Marange fields, it has been ...

  • Patrick Mkwamba Opens Up

    HE travelled the length and breadth of Zimbabwe entertaining people. He is one of the country's celebrated composers and singers. The music history of the country cannot be complete without mention of Patrick Mkwamba. His booming voice was a force to reckon during his heydays. Who can forget lyrics such as "Inonzi bhonasi-ii. Wapenga nayo bhonasi . . . Jonasi atambira bhonasi yake. ...

  • Caps United Should Evoke Spirit of 96

    WHEN CAPS United players walk into the National Sports Stadium for the potentially explosive Harare Derby tomorrow, former skipper Silver Chigwenje wants the players to evoke the spirit of the 1996 championship winning side. Chigwenje, a former defender, led CAPS United to their first league championship title in Independent Zimbabwe before the side repeated the feat in 2004 and 2005. Back ...

  • Athletes Prepare for Botswana Tour

    ATHLETES from the country's 10 provinces are expected to converge at the National Sports Stadium today for the inter-provincial athletics competition. The one-day event starts this morning with 300 athletes expected to fight for honours in the track and field events. National Athletics Association of Zimbabwe president Tendai Tagara said they are using the event to finalise preparations ...

  • The New Face of Hip-Hop

    New kid on the block Timothy Makuviri, known in the music circles as Timz Carter, is set to set the hip-hop scene ablaze with his eagerly anticipated new album entitled "Rap Resurrection". The upcoming rapper has a story to tell and his eight-track album title says it all. "I believe hip-hop is not all about gangsters, swearing and rebellion. The true meaning of hip-hop has been ...


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Race to Witch Mountain

Race to Witch Mountain

Despite being a child of the 1970s, I never saw Disneys Escape to Witch Mountain (1975) and thus have no point of comparison with its new reimagining, which comes complete with action-comedy star Dwayne Johnson in the drivers seat and a slightly more dynamic nam ... ...

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  • Duo for Norway Exchange Programme

    TWO Zimbabwean athletes, Loveness Murenga and Thubaelihle Sibanda, will leave the country for Olso, Norway, for the youth sport exchange programme in August. The two are from Mashonaland Central and Bulawayo provinces. They will stay in Norway in a deal brokered by the Sports Commission and the Norwegian Olympic and Paralympic Committee and Confederation of Sports. Mashonaland Central province ...

  • Despite arrest Zimbabwes top rights lawyer wont relent

    As Zimbabwe approaches watershed elections, a renowned lawyer at the forefront of defending human rights activists, vowed never to give up -- even after her own arrest earlier this year. Beatrice Mtetwa spoke to journalists in Johannesburg Friday at the screening there of a film about her fight for the rule of law in Zimbabwe. Mtetwa was arrested in March when she went to represent clients ...

  • Zimbabwe Two Groups Win Big in Cook Off Competition

    SOUTH AFRICAN-BASED products company Tiger Brands is giving back to its local customers by engaging in different community service projects in Zimbabwe. Tiger Brands Zimbabwe projects co-ordinator Gwen Mpeiwa expressed gratitude at the overwhelming support from the local market during the Fatti's and Moni's Pasta Cook Off held in Harare last weekend. "Over the weekend, we had a ...

  • Zimbabwe PMs party pledges trimmer army just society

    Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's party on Saturday pledged to trim the army and ensure a free society if it wins upcoming general elections. "The size of the army must be rationalised taking into account the fact that we are in peace and chances of us going to war are nil," Tendai Biti, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) secretary general, said at a conference in ...

  • Chunga Playing Different Game Altogether

    THERE was a time when Moses Chunga was a big part of the Harare derby. But football, just like life, changes a lot and when CAPS United and Dynamos clash tomorrow at the National Sports Stadium, Chunga will be on a different assignment altogether. Now coach of Division One side Hippo Valley, he takes his men for a home tie against Renco Mine, which to the people of that area, is also a derby. ...

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