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  • Horse-Riding At Mukuvisi Woodlands

    While my brother and friends were visiting recently from overseas - Peter, born here, has lived in the UK for decades, Neri is from Israel and Jorge, from Madeira - we took them to Mukuvisi Woodlands for lunch at the coffee shop and some time at the game viewing platform. We had a particularly good time watching the game from there, and Peter and Neri on our recommendation resolved to squeeze ...

  • DT Africa Finally Clear Bulaji to Join Premiership Side Caps

    DT AFRICA United have finally cleared versatile player Kenneth Kevin Bulaji to play for CAPS United. The player could feature in today's Harare derby against Dynamos. Bulaji, who can play in any position upfront, has been at the centre of a contract wrangle between DT Africa United and CAPS United. The Players Status committee ruled in favour of DT Africa United and the club has agreed ...

  • Friendly Football Academy Is Born in Harare

    WHAT started as a pastime social league football club in the high density suburb of Kuwadzana a year ago, has within a short period of time blossomed to match some of the biggest football academies in the country. September 13 2012 saw the birth of a new football academy, Friendly Football Academy. The brains behind this noble project is Richard Solobala, a talented player during his days who ...

  • Zimbabwe mining chamber criticises minerals proposals

    HARARE – Zimbabwe's mining chamber said tighter proposed State control over the sale of minerals would hit Anglo American Platinum and Impala Platinum Holdings, slow down foreign investment and stunt growth in the industry. Zimbabwe's Mines Ministry in March produced a draft Minerals Policy, which seeks to increase state participation in exploration, mining and the selling of ...

  • Mujuru Working to Win Over Church Leadership to Zanu-PF

    Gweru - Vice-President Joice Mujuru has urged church leaders to participate in Zanu PF programmes in order to become economically empowered. Speaking at a Gweru ministers fraternal church service in the city yesterday, Mujuru said it was disheartening that upon retirement many church leaders ended up destitute because they would have failed to take part in programmes like the land reform and ...


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Hardball

Harball is a sluggish, "uplifting" Hollywoodized account of a troubled man who finds unlikely redemption by coaching an inner-city baseball team. Adapted by John Gatins (Summer Catch) from Daniel Coyle's 1993 memoir and directed by Brian Robbins (Varsity Blues) as Boyz N the Hood meets The Bad News Bears, Hardball is one of those irritatingly "well-intent ... ...

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  • Zimbabwe Special Zanu-PF Congress to Anoint Mujuru

    ZANU PF is mulling over a special congress which is expected to fill vacant top positions and decide once and for all the succession of President Mugabe, sources have said. Details of the congress remain a closely guarded secret, only known to very senior party officials. According to sources in the party, the current restructuring of provinces was in preparation for the special congress which ...

  • Registrar-General a Hindrance to Credible Poll

    Last week MDC-T MP Settlement Chikwinya questioned Registrar-General Tobaiwa Mudede's continuing role in the conduct of elections. Chikwinya, contributing to a debate on the voter registration exercise, revealed that Mudede, who is 67 years old and now past retirement age, was a hindrance to the holding of free and fair elections. The debate is laudable but unfortunately comes a tad too ...

  • Hes Not Presidential Material - Ncube

    MDC-T leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai is not fit to lead Zimbabwe because he does not possess the requisite qualities for President, MDC leader Professor Welshman Ncube has said. Prof Ncube's damning assessment of the MDC-T leader comes hard on the heels of a similar evaluation by MDC-T's long time ally, the ZCTU that laid into the party for policy vacuity and branded the party's ...

  • Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission Broke

    THE Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission says its independence is being compromised because of the failure by Finance Minister Tendai Biti to provide funds to carry out its mandate. The commission's chairperson Mr Jacob Mudenda said last Thursday that they did not have proper offices, vehicles and staff. Mr Mudenda was speaking while giving oral evidence on the commission's operations ...

  • Zec Must Expedite CSOS Accreditation

    The Zimbabwe Election Support Network is calling on the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) to accredit local civic society organisations to conduct voter education, in view of the impending harmonised elections. ZESN notes that the country is already in an election mode, hence the need for ZEC to expedite the accreditation of civic society organisations that have applied to complement the ...

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