Sikhumbuzo Moyo, Senior Reporter Highlanders have promoted the youngest player in the club’s history to the first team following the elevation of Prince Ndlovu on Friday at the age of 16 years, 170 days. Young Ndlovu, plucked from the Bosso90 developmental side coached by Melusi Mabaleka Sibanda, is eight days younger than the mercurial Peter […] …
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Paprika brings smiles to Matebeleland South farmers
Mashudu Netsianda, Senior Reporter LOCATED at Makakavhule Village in Beitbridge District in the semi-arid Matabeleland South Province, River Ranch Irrigation Scheme has transformed the lives of more than 80 smallholder farmers whose livelihoods have for the past two decades revolved around irrigation farming. The irrigation scheme, which was established in the early 1970s and later […] …
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Dr Solwayo (Part 2): Wives speak on polygamous marriage
Thandeka Moyo-Ndlovu, Senior Health Reporter THREE woman sharing one man can be a recipe for disaster in any house but the wives of Professor Solwayo Ngwenya have managed to build a sisterhood which they say has defied the odds. Their story generated a lot of debate last week after their husband, a Bulawayo renowned gynaecologist […] …
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‘Fill up BF, we will give you a good game’
Ricky Zililo, Senior Sports Reporter SUPPORTERS, known as the 12th man in football, play a key role in motivating their teams and as such, Highlanders coach Baltemar Brito wants Bosso fans to create an electrifying environment for his players at the stadium. Bosso face Manica Diamonds at Barbourfields Stadium tomorrow, as Brito takes charge of […] …
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How Ndebele community settled in Buhera
Nqobile Tshili, Chronicle Reporter FOR nearly a century, people of Ndebele origin have been part of the Buhera community in Manicaland Province. The community members voluntarily moved from Esigodini in Matabeleland South in 1927. The late Chief Fish Gwebu made the great trek as the winds of change blew over the country due to colonialism. […] …
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Meet Makanaka Mavengere . . . screenwriter behind DiepCity, eHostella, The Black Door
Mthabisi Tshuma, Showbiz Reporter IT is never easy to leave that one thing that you love and trade it for something else. It takes guts and unbridled determination as success is not guaranteed. There are hurdles to overcome. Sometimes it takes a simple text message like, “Makanaka, I am still waiting for the book.” From […] …
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COMMENT: Government spending big in transforming people’s lives
GOVERNMENT continues to register many positives in its implementation of infrastructural development projects across the country much to the chagrin of doomsayers. The major projects being undertaken include the construction of the Harare-Masvingo-Beitbridge Highway, the modernisation of the Beitbridge Border Post, upgrading of Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport, the construction of Lake Gwayi-Shangani, the construction […] …
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Make youth ploughshares, not political knobkerries
Stephen Mpofu, Perspective A THEME trending in this communicologist’s mind, and no doubt also in the minds of other, uninverted Zimbabwean patriots who heard the news about ruling Zanu-PF youth leaders recently being taught the significance of electoral processes so that they repeat the same awareness exercise to other youths in their constituencies, is about […] …
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Zimbabwe’s Young DLC signs record deal with South Africa’s Next Music
Mbulelo Mpofu, Showbiz Reporter ASAPH has done it. ShaSha has done it and the latest Zimbabwean to join the elite group of Zimbos signing with big record labels beyond our borders is Young DCL (real name Darlington Chikwewo). The super-talented producer and artiste, has put pen to paper on a record deal with the […] …
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Cattle herder stumbles on corpse near Khami Prison
Bongani Ndlovu, Online Reporter POLICE in Bulawayo are investigation the death of an unidentified man whose body was discovered in a bush near Khami Prison by a herder who was out looking for his cattle. The body of the man was found on Thursday hanging on a tree and police suspect that the man killed […] …
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