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Sharuko On Saturday ON August 30, 2002, Arsenal’s revolution swept English football into a new world when the Gunners became the first club to field nine black players in their starting XI. Captain Patrick Vieira, Lauren, Sol Campbell, Ashley Cole, Gilberto Silva, Sylvian Wiltord, Thierry Henry, Nwanko Kanu and Kolo Toure all made the starting […]
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Ruth Butaumocho African Agenda Complacency among Zimbabweans could soon be the biggest challenge in the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic. This is amid indications that locals no longer regard the pandemic as a risk and have since thrown caution to the wind. On Tuesday, Covid-19 positive figures spiked to an all-time high of 591 after […]
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Isdore Guvamombe Reflections Back in my village, in the proverbial land of milk honey and dust — Guruve — my clique of friends often meet at the growth point early morning on weekends to buy bread or newspapers. Here, we feedback on the week in town and in the village. Here, again, we briefly share new […]
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Ruth Butaumocho African Agenda Lack of adequate energy to power households and commercial activities is one of the biggest challenges that Africa continues to face daily. The problem is even bigger in the sub-Saharan Africa region that perennially has been generating the least electricity in the world. This has resulted in acute shortages of power for […]
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Isdore Guvamombe “It was in the morning at Chimoio Camp, I was going to the main office to surrender school reports, as required of me as a teacher. Suddenly I saw enemy planes arrive and I had no time to run. In fact, there was nowhere to run. It was in the open and there […]
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Sharuko On Saturday FOR Peter Ndlovu, it was the beginning of immortality — the age he finally dragged his country over the line after successive generations of Warriors had failed to clear the final hurdle. The Flying Elephant was 30, when AFCON qualification was secured, in 2003. For Sunday Chidzambwa, it was the beginning of […]
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Isdore Guvamombe Reflections As the evening slept away in Watsomba, two teenage girls bade farewell to their parents and left Nyakatsapa Village to feed freedom fighters holed up at a base on the mountain foot. With baskets of hot food delicately balancing on their heads and five-litre containers of water on one hand, the two […]
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Isdore Guvamombe Saturday Lounge The silence as one arrives at Chiware in Odzi near Rusape, is eerie and profound. Only chirping birds that intermittently somersault, albeit, effortlessly from one tree branch to another or from one grass tuft to another, give a sign of life. Distant cranking cattle bells give another sign of human existence, […]
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Sharuko on Saturday IT’S a pity Augustine Moyo, the greatest daredevil I have had the privilege to know and befriend, won’t be there when it finally happens. A larger-than-life character, who lived on the edge and in the fast lane, with a love affair with fast cars and football, he was someone who loved life […]
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Sharuko On Saturday THERE is a constituency, including some desktop spin doctors, which believes it’s a romance whose roots were with the Dream Team — a product of a combination of both rejection and frustration. One born out of convenience rather than necessity. When the sun was beginning to set on the career of this […]
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Sharuko On Saturday MAYBE, in a way, they were just made for each other. That’s why, maybe, the club won a league championship, in the very year he was born, as if to welcome him into this crazy world. That was in the Summer of ‘65. Maybe, that’s why another league championship was won, in […]
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Godwin Muzari Lifestyle Editor Leonard Dembo was a star whose expertise was far ahead of his contemporaries. His music still rules. The top 40 charts that most radio stations presented during the country’s 40th independence celebrations proved that “Chitekete” is still the best song after 1980. Dembo was a great musician. He played his part […]
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Without Jubilee, as if he never lived among us, as if he never took us to places where angels live, transforming fantasy into reality, dragging us into football’s wonderland, with his flicks, with his tricks, making it look so easy, so beautiful, it was simply irresistible. There will always be one Joel Shambo, a genius, […]
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Fabisch’s Dream Team, like Drogba’s Elephants, were the shining symbol of sporting immortality. THE three-hour road trip took us north, past villages still bearing the scars of war, past villagers still haunted by the horror of armed conflict. We were in a battered taxi, the driver and I, having met at the airport and somehow […]
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In Zororo’s silence, I still hear his voice, in his loneliness, I feel his company and in his absence, I feel his presence I DID NoT know Zororo Makamba, never spoke to him, never met him and never chatted to him online. But, I know him now. Which, in itself, is a paradox in that […]