Expect Boxing Board Appointments Soon: Ministry

By Gilbert MunetsiThe Ministry of Sport, Youth, Arts and Recreation is cognisant of the challenges emanating from the absence of a boxing board of control and is currently seized with the task of appointing one in the very near future. Permanent Secretary Dr Thokozile Chitepo told The Herald there were …

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Technology Instrumental In Zim’s Education

By Gilbert Munetsi Technology through competence-based education is the surest guarantee that the country will meet the demands of a 21st century learner and challenges of competition in the global economy, a Cabinet Minister said Thursday. Primary and Secondary Education Minister Evelyn Ndlovu made the remarks in her keynote address …

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Manyuchi’s WABA Defence Title Shifted To Zim

World Alliance Boxing Association (WABA) Supreme Middleweight Champion and Goodwill Ambassador Charles Manyuchi is contemplating defending his title in Zimbabwe this April.He faces Said Mbelwa of Tanzania. The champion told Nhau on the sidelines of a recent awards banquet in Harare that one of his sponsors had advised him there …

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Mnangagwa Gvt Under Siege, Faces All Out Revolt

THE country’s biggest conglomeration of labour organisations, the ZIMBABWE Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) thrown its weight behind striking teachers and strongly castigated government’s inconsiderate approach to their approach saying it was the genesis of an all-out revolt. Teachers have vowed not to return to class citing poor salaries. They …

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Mass Suspensions: Teachers File Court Challenge

HARARE – Human rights lawyers have filed an urgent court application to stop the government from suspending thousands of teachers striking over poor pay. The Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum initiated the court action on behalf of the Amalgamated Rural Teachers’ Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ) on Friday, a day after …

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Court Clears T Freddy Of Rape

Goodness and Mercy Ministries leader, Prophet Tapiwa Freddy was today cleared of the rape and physical abuse charges he was facing at the Harare Magistrates Court. Harare regional magistrate Mrs Gloria Takundwa discharged Freddy after noting that the truth was not told in the whole matter. Mrs Takundwa said the …

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Zim Boxing In Turmoil

-‘Stakeholders fume over new measures“`‘ “`-‘Long absence of a board questioned‘ By Gilbert Munetsi A large cross-section of the boxing fraternity last Tuesday joined hands to interrogate what many classified as “an uneasy way of doing business” after the publishing of a new raft of requirements by the secretariat for …

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Covid-19 Now Pushing Zimbabweans To Quit Smoking

Rising awareness in Zimbabwe about COVID-19 complications has prompted smokers of tobacco and other substances to quit, health experts in the Southern African nation confirm. “With the advent of COVID-19 and the health awareness that was broadcast, it became clearer that there are certain people who are at more risk …

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