Archive for November, 2009

Video: Jestina speaks to Nyarota

Jestina Mukoko speaks to The Zimbabwe Times Managing Editor, Geoff Nyarota, about her abduction on December 3rd, 2008, by Zimbabwe’s state security agents, and the ordeal she endured there-after.

Honour Gombami’s horror injury

Honour Gombami’s horror injury

By Robson Sharuko THERE are fears that the career of Zimbabwe international midfielder Honour Gombani could be over — at the age of 26 — after he suffered a horrific injury in Belgium on Monday during a league match between his club Cercle Brugge and Racing Genk. The former Highlanders star tore both the meniscus [...]

Mhunga buses suspension lifted

Mhunga buses suspension lifted

Government has provisionally lifted Mhunga Bus Service’s suspension after a State-appointed probe team cleared the transporter of any unprofessional conduct. In a statement yesterday, Transport, Communications and Infrastructural Development Minister Nicholas Goche said the company’s buses were fit for operation but the provisional restoration of the licence would be reviewed after a year. Mhunga’s licence [...]

Dembare lock horns with Bosso

Dembare lock horns with Bosso

By Petros Kausiyo AFTER giving way to the Cosafa Senior Challenge for a fortnight, the CBZ Premiership race swings back into action this weekend with the three main title contenders — Dynamos, Gunners and CAPS United — facing tricky assignments. The interest in the championship race will certainly be boosted following revelations that the clubs [...]

Zimbabwe escapes diamond sale ban

Zimbabwe escapes diamond sale ban

Zimbabwe has escaped suspension from the Kimberly process – the certification scheme which regulates the sale of so-called blood diamonds. Instead, the 70-member international diamond trade body has agreed to give Zimbabwe more time to reform its mining practices. Rights groups alleged soldiers killed about 200 people at a diamond field last year, which the [...]

Tsvangirai calls off government boycott

Tsvangirai calls off government boycott

MAPUTO — Zimbabwe’s Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai on Thursday said he had called off a boycott of power-sharing ties with President Robert Mugabe that had paralysed the fragile unity government for three weeks. “We have suspended our disengagement in the government,” Tsvangirai told reporters after talks at an emergency regional summit to break the impasse [...]

Winky D’s comeback show

Winky D’s comeback show

Dancehall musician Winky D makes a welcome return to Sports Diner tonight his first ever gig since his maiden trip to the United Kingdom. Winky D, whose real name is Wallace Chirimuko, had been missing on the local scene after he went to the UK and decided to “try new things”. He, however, could not [...]

Mpofu thrown out of VP race

Mpofu thrown out of VP race

By Lloyd Gumbo MINES and Mining Development Minister Obert Mpofu’s hopes to contest for the vice presidency have been shattered after former PF-Zapu members threw him out of the race, saying he was never their party member. In an interview yesterday, Zanu-PF acting political commissar Richard Ndlovu said the criteria being used to select the [...]