by BERNARD CHIKETO SCOTTLAND FC, the reigning champions of Zimbabwe, will step into new territory in July when they face South Africa’s Kaizer Chiefs in the Toyota Cup. The match, set for Rustenburg, offers the ambitious Harare-based club a rare chance to gauge itself against one of African football’s most recognisable names. The invitation-only tournament,…
by BERNARD CHIKETO AN INTERESTING thing happened on the way to Zimbabwe’s tourism recovery. When Dr. George Manyaya, the new chief executive of the Zimbabwe Tourism Authority (ZTA), called for a registration blitz of operators, he expected to tidy up the books.
by STAFF WRITER ZIMBABWE won a seat on the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday, a diplomatic prize that President Emmerson Mnangagwa hailed as proof that his controversial re-engagement drive is winning over the world.
by STAFF WRITER GOVERNMENT has kitted out three Ebola isolation centres in Harare, Bulawayo and the Zambian border post of Chirundu, even though the country has yet to register a single case of the haemorrhagic fever.
by BERNARD CHIKETO Zimbabwe Tourism Authority (ZTA) will convene its first annual general meeting on June 17th in Harare, a move that ends an awkward stretch of corporate silence for an organisation that has spent years selling the country’s attractions without ever presenting its own books to a public forum.
by STAFF WRITER TRUST, once lost, is not easily pinned back on. But across two districts this week, senior officers did their best to staple it in place.
by NORMA TSOPO PEPETUAL Guwila, the long-serving regional manager for the Zimbabwe National Chamber of Commerce (ZNCC) in Manicaland and Chiredzi, died on Wednesday morning at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals in Harare.
For a South African leader to claim the country his compatriots so often revile as home was a gesture no tourism campaign could manufacture by STAFF WRITER Patrice Motsepe, the president of the Confederation of African Football, arrived in Zimbabwe on Saturday morning to a red-carpet welcome, and then said something that landed with the…
Zimbabwe swears in its first woman chief justice, as the Malaba era ends by BERNARD CHIKETO JUSTICE Elizabeth Chiedza Gwaunza on May 15th became Zimbabwe’s first female chief justice, capping a quiet transformation of a judiciary that, just a generation ago, was entirely male.
by STAFF WRITER AS MOZAMBIQUE grapples with crippling fuel shortages that have left motorists queueing for hours and paralysed commerce across the central provinces, one religious leader has issued an unusual divine forecast: within three weeks, the pumps will flow freely again.
