Athletes Prepare for Botswana Tour

All Africa - Sunday 19th May, 2013

ATHLETES from the country's 10 provinces are expected to converge at the National Sports Stadium today for the inter-provincial athletics competition. The one-day event starts this morning with 300 athletes expected to fight for honours in the track and field events. National Athletics Association of Zimbabwe president Tendai Tagara said they are using the event to finalise preparations ...

The New Face of Hip-Hop

All Africa - Sunday 19th May, 2013

New kid on the block Timothy Makuviri, known in the music circles as Timz Carter, is set to set the hip-hop scene ablaze with his eagerly anticipated new album entitled "Rap Resurrection". The upcoming rapper has a story to tell and his eight-track album title says it all. "I believe hip-hop is not all about gangsters, swearing and rebellion. The true meaning of hip-hop has been ...

Duo for Norway Exchange Programme

All Africa - Sunday 19th May, 2013

TWO Zimbabwean athletes, Loveness Murenga and Thubaelihle Sibanda, will leave the country for Olso, Norway, for the youth sport exchange programme in August. The two are from Mashonaland Central and Bulawayo provinces. They will stay in Norway in a deal brokered by the Sports Commission and the Norwegian Olympic and Paralympic Committee and Confederation of Sports. Mashonaland Central province ...

Despite arrest Zimbabwes top rights lawyer wont relent

General Sources - Sunday 19th May, 2013

As Zimbabwe approaches watershed elections, a renowned lawyer at the forefront of defending human rights activists, vowed never to give up -- even after her own arrest earlier this year. Beatrice Mtetwa spoke to journalists in Johannesburg Friday at the screening there of a film about her fight for the rule of law in Zimbabwe. Mtetwa was arrested in March when she went to represent clients ...

Zimbabwe Two Groups Win Big in Cook Off Competition

All Africa - Saturday 18th May, 2013

SOUTH AFRICAN-BASED products company Tiger Brands is giving back to its local customers by engaging in different community service projects in Zimbabwe. Tiger Brands Zimbabwe projects co-ordinator Gwen Mpeiwa expressed gratitude at the overwhelming support from the local market during the Fatti's and Moni's Pasta Cook Off held in Harare last weekend. "Over the weekend, we had a ...

Zimbabwe PMs party pledges trimmer army just society

General Sources - Saturday 18th May, 2013

Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's party on Saturday pledged to trim the army and ensure a free society if it wins upcoming general elections. "The size of the army must be rationalised taking into account the fact that we are in peace and chances of us going to war are nil," Tendai Biti, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) secretary general, said at a conference in ...