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Sharuko on Saturday THEY were about 30 of them, united by love for their football club, angered by the tone of an article I had written in this newspaper and powered by the rage exploding in their veins. Their march had started at the corner of First Street and Agostinho Neto Avenue (formerly Speke Avenue), […]
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Sharuko On Sunday ON April 16, two days before the country celebrates the 44th anniversary of our Independence, Bernard Marriot will mark 10 years in charge of Dynamos. He was 66, when he took over as board chairman, on April 16, 2014, in what was effectively a boardroom coup. He will be 76, next month, […]
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Ruth Butaumocho African Agenda As a young female entrepreneur, one of Zimbabwe’s well-established businesswomen, Ms Susan Peters found herself facing a dilemma too many women during her time were facing — a choice between going back to work or staying home with kids. Disconsolate by the dilemma, Ms Peters ultimately decided not to settle for […]
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Sharuko On Saturday IN August 2015, the BBC published results of a survey they had carried out about the best supported English Premiership clubs in Africa. The results showed Arsenal were the best supported EPL club in Nigeria, part of the legacy which Nwanko Kanu’s exploits at the Gunners left in his home country. Predictably, […]
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Ruth Butaumocho African Agenda During my high school years at Mufakose 1 High School, Geography was a captivating subject which I thoroughly enjoyed outside English Literature. Probably due to lack of gadgets and other tools, the textbook was the only authoritative teaching tool that our teachers heavily relied on then. Naturally, without the aid of […]
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Sharuko on Saturday IN one way, or the other, it’s like a return to 2011. A diminutive football star returns home, gets linked with Dynamos but ends up signing for a lightweight club. Okay, let’s put it in another way – a diminutive forward returns home, gets tipped to sign for DeMbare but ends up […]
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Ruth Butaumocho African Agenda Dr Tatenda Mavetera describes herself as having been “ a young lady who merely wanted to see her peers thriving in different spaces”. Cde Mavetera, poised and focused beyond her age, is being modest. At 37, she is the country’s Minister of Information Communication Technology, Postal and Courier Services. She is […]
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Ruth Butaumocho African Agenda A dark cloud hung over Bvumbura Village in Chivhu after news that a 14-year-old girl from the Johane Marange apostolic church had died, spread through the community. The death of Delight Masomeke, who had given birth three days early on December 29, 2022 was met with fury and outrage across Zimbabwe […]
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Sharuko On Saturday NYASHA Mushekwi is not the greatest CAPS United striker of all-time – that honour belongs to Shackman Tauro. He was so good, both for club and country, we even used to call him ‘Mr Goals,’ a fitting acknowledgement of this special specimen. He was a supreme athlete, who was ahead of his […]
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Sharuko On Saturday NYASHA Mushekwi is not the greatest CAPS United striker of all-time – that honour belongs to Shackman Tauro. He was so good, both for club and country, we even used to call him ‘Mr Goals,’ a fitting acknowledgement of this special specimen. He was a supreme athlete, who was ahead of his […]
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Sharuko On Saturday ON Thursday, Simeone Jamanda, the original football Bhuju before Simba Ndoro adopted the nickname, died. For years, he had bravely fought diabetes and became an advocate in the fight against this monster in a crusade in which he helped thousands of others. Diabetes should have known that it was in for one […]
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Sharuko On Saturday IT’S a very controversial subject – which was the Greatest Dynamos Team of-all-time? There are many who believe that the Glamour Boys Class of ’98 was the greatest, and for a very good reason too. After all, this was a group of Glamour Boys who blazed a trail and became the first […]
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Ruth Butaumocho African Agenda The year comes to an end in 10 days, wrapping up one of the most eventful years that was characterised by unprecedented global events ranging from geopolitics to extreme weather temperatures. 2023 will probably go down in the annals of history as the year climate change knocked hard on many doors, […]
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Sharuko On Saturday GIVE human beings a chance to make a choice, be it in sport, the arts or even in politics, and one thing is guaranteed — there will always be controversy. It’s part of our nature to be different, and even controversial, when choosing anything, because those differences are what really shape us […]
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Sharuko On Saturday THERE was a time when, for about a decade, Rahman Gumbo was the only coach who could boast of having guided our Warriors to a victory away from home. He led his men to a 2-0 win over Rwanda in a 2006 World Cup/AFCON qualifier in Kigali in July 2004. Then, just […]