Archive for December, 2009

Moyo re-deployment early x-mas present

Moyo re-deployment early x-mas present

The MDC leadership in South Africa is excited about Simon Khaya Moyo’s redeployment to the Zanu PF’s Shake-shake building in Harare. The out-going ambassador failed dismally to provide a fatherly protection to three millions Zimbabweans staying in South Africa who are daily falling prey to marauding and corrupt members of the South Africa Policing Service. [...]

Tatchell drops bid due to Mugabe injuries

Tatchell drops bid due to Mugabe injuries

By Alex Ralph Peter Tatchell, the gay rights activist, has stepped down as a Green parliamentary candidate, claiming that brain injuries sustained from attacks by Robert Mugabe’s bodyguards and Russian neo-Nazis have left him unfit to campaign. Mr Tatchell, 57, said it was with “huge disappointment and frustration” that he has been forced not to [...]

Mugabe slams West over climate change

Mugabe slams West over climate change

Denmark – Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, who is in the Danish capital, Copenhagen, for the UN Climate Change Conference, on Wednesday condemned the North for not showing the same fundamentalist spirit it exhibits in developing countries on human rights matters on the menacing question of climate change. “Where is its commitment to retributive justice which [...]

CAPS United cry foul

CAPS United cry foul

By Robson Sharuko CAPS UNITED have hit out at bitter rivals Dynamos for the manner in which they handled Ashley Rambanapasi’s proposed move across the Great Divide while Highlanders have declared that their skipper Zephania Ngodzo and midfielder Stephen Alimenda are not up for sale and will not move to the Glamour Boys. DeMbare registered [...]

Soccer Star to be crowned today

Soccer Star to be crowned today

By Grace Chingoma THE 33rd footballer to be crowned Soccer Star of the Year will be inducted into the elite club tonight at a ceremony in the capital to celebrate the achievements of the country’s finest player this season. Chosen a month ago by a panel of 13 soccer writers in Kwekwe, the identity of [...]

Vanessa voices concern at judging

Vanessa voices concern at judging

Miss Zimbabwe Vanessa Sibanda, the daughter of army general Philip Valerio Sibanda has expressed her disappointment at the manner of the judging at the recent Miss World beauty pageant. Sibanda made it to the top 12 at the pageant but narrowly missed out on making the top 10. “I was delighted to have made the Miss Beach [...]

MISA on shortwave radio stations

MISA on shortwave radio stations

MISA-Zimbabwe has been following with particular interest the seemingly contentious issue of shortwave radio stations within the context of the ongoing SADC mediation process.  It is MISA Zimbabwe’s well considered view that broadcasts by shortwave radio stations is an internationally accepted global phenomenon in terms of the International Telecommunications Union Treaty and is in tandem [...]

Welshman & Priscilla hold up talks again

Welshman & Priscilla hold up talks again

Negotiators from the Mutambara MDC are once again holding up crucial unity government talks after Secretary General Welshman Ncube and his Deputy Priscilla Misihairambwi-Mushonga started another series of globe trotting trips. Talks to break an impasse in the coalition government are currently being facilitated by a team of former cabinet ministers from South Africa. Last [...]