Boxing, wrestling board opens liaison offices
The Sunday News By Sunday News Reporter 6 November 2013 THE Zimbabwe National Boxing and Wrestling Control Board has come up with provincial liaison offices that would be manned by selected individuals throughout the country’s nine provinces. Lorraine Muringi, the board’s vice-chairperson, said they had already appointed Gabriel Moyo as liaison officer for Bulawayo and that
The big stick
The Zimbabwean By Magari Mandebvu 5 November 2013 A while ago, I heard a very temporary untrained teacher announcing that former Education Minister David Coltart’s opposition to beating schoolchildren was a British plot. “It must be; he’s white.†Ignoring that last illogicality doesn’t leave him with much evidence, since our schools were built on a
Thabitha Khumalo celebrates her defeat of David Coltart in the UK
Zim Eye By Zim Eye Reporter 3 November 2013 The MDC-T Oxford branch held its celebration of the election victory for Bulawayo East Thabitha Khumalo’s conquest over David Coltart. The jubilant meeting which attracted more than a hundred delegates from around the country unanimously concurred that they are going to rally behind Morgan Tsvangirai for
Will MDC finally learn?
News Day By Conway Tutani 1 November 2013 The Welshman Ncube-led MDC is not looking in the best of health. Maybe something was going to give after the party did not even win one contested seat in the July harmonised elections. Earlier in the year, Ncube had, in a page-long interview in the State-controlled Sunday
Warriors shift base
The Chronicle By Sikhumbuzo Moyo 31 October 2013 ZIFA have acceded to a request by Zimbabwe Warriors coach Ian “Dibango†Gorowa to shift base for the national team matches from Rufaro Stadium in Harare to Bulawayo’s Barbourfields Stadium. Speaking at a stakeholders meeting in the city at the weekend, Gorowa, believed to have been given a
Gwindi hearing adjourned
The Herald Bt The Herald Reporter 31 October 2013 THE case in which Harare City chairman Leslie Gwindi is being charged with bringing the game into disrepute has been adjourned to Monday to allow the former Premier Soccer League secretary-general time to summon two witnesses key to his defence. After a false start earlier this
Zimbabwe:ZBC Equipment Still in the 1960s
ZimEye 29 October 2013 The Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation’s equipment is still the same since the 1960s it has been said. Below is a commentary by former Education, Sports and Culture Minister David Coltart following Information Minister Jonathan Moyo’s heart breaking tour of the broadcaster’s studios yesterday. “Prof Moyo, Minister of Information, commended one of the
David Coltart’s Blog – ZBC needs to change its antediluvian mindset
David Coltart’s Blog – ZBC needs to change its antediluvian mindset as well as its technology  By David Coltart 29 October 2013 “Prof Moyo, Minister of Information, commended one of the librarians at ZBC for opening her heart and tell him the truth about the state of affairs at the national broadcaster. The female
Mayor rejects luxury vehicle
Southern Eye By Blessed Mhlanga 29 October 2013 KWEKWE mayor Matenda Madzoke has turned down an offer by the local authority to buy him a new 4×4 Toyota D Tec at a time service delivery has almost collapsed. Councillor Weston Masiya said the previous council led by Shadreck Tobaiwa had passed a resolution to purchase
Govt urged to apologise for sake of peace
Southern Eye By Mthandazo Nyoni 28 October 2013 Matabeleland-based political analysts say Zimbabwe can only positively celebrate peace if the government publicly addresses gross human rights abuses perpetrated on ordinary citizens the Gukurahundi atrocities, Operation Murambatsvina and political violence that marred the 2008 general elections. Zimbabwe joined the rest of the world to commemorate International