Botswana chess federation has produced some milestones in the chess fraternity as they managed to unearth some very youthful powerful chess professes in the mold of Besa Masaiti and Natalie Katlo Banda who produced some sterling performances, in the recently inaugural online rapid chess individual championships held sometime last month produced some mouthwatering performances from the Botswana duo in the under 20 Open girls’ category.
One of Zimbabwe’s most venerated musicians, Thomas Mapfumo, has appealed to the international community to act immediately to stop what he called an ‘ever-rising crisis’ in Zimbabwe.
It has never been in doubt to most of us that, the 1980 government, that came into power in Zimbabwe, was nothing more than a British project, which had been created to hijack the genuine and gallant people’s revolution, in order to establish a system that would continue colonial interests in the country (once known as Rhodesia), and protect the erstwhile masters’ interests – since, the real liberation struggle Sons and Daughters of the Soil were regarded as a potential threat to this order.
An estimated US $3bn is needed to rehabilitate key roads across Masvingo Province in Zimbabwe after they were extensively damaged by heavy rains being experienced in the country. According to Provincial roads Engineer Robert Mukome preliminary calculations indicate that the province will need the amount to improve trafficability in the short term and also upgrade the roads; and construction works are billed to start once resources are availed.