HARARE – The draw for the Mbada Diamonds Cup, on tonight, is set to inspire Zimbabwe’s struggling footballers to dream big again in the country’s richest knockout competition. Last year’s winners Dynamos and losing finalist Motor Action hogged the limelight by pocketing US$75 000 and US$50 000 respectively while the country’s small teams surprised many…
HARARE – A Harare man who posed as a magistrate at the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) offices in order to assist his friends get fingerprints has been slapped with a two-year jail term. Muringwa Elmon Mazengwe, 52, appeared before Harare Magistrate Don Ndirowei yesterday, who sentenced him to two years in prison. Six months were…
HARARE – MDC youths have resolved to resume “Free Solomon Madzore Marches” initiated in January as they step up efforts to have their leader released from incarceration. Promise Mkwananzi, the secretary-general of the MDC youth assembly, told the Daily News yesterday they had decided to re-introduce the protest marches to mark 15 months of Madzore…
HARARE – Johannesburg Stock Exchange-listed sugar producer Tongaat Hullet’s 50,3 percent-owned Zimbabwean operation, Hippo Valley Estates (Hippo), says its Successful Rural Sugarcane Farming Community (Susco) programme is half-complete. “Seven thousand one hundred hectares have been ploughed out and replanted and this equates approximately to 47 percent of the total area that has been allocated to…
HARARE – Musician Rangarirai Sagombeto of Tina fame is now a changed man. He is slowly moving to be a gospel artiste. He told the Daily News that it is high time for him to work for the Almighty. “I am glad I found Christ in December last year. I am a born-again father who…
BULAWAYO – The controversy-riddled play No Voice, No Choice by Harare-based playwright Tafadzwa Muzondo has been plucked out of the Intwasa Arts Festival following its eventual ban by the Board of Censors of Zimbabwe. The play was one of the main theatrical drawcards at the week-long multi-disciplinary arts fete scheduled for September 18 to 22….
HARARE – SRI Lankan cricket lovers will be having more than their fair share of big hits, loud music and provocative dancing girls with back-to-back T20 tournaments with the recently concluded Sri Lankan Premier League and the upcoming ICC World Twenty20. Although T20 cricket is undoubtedly the most unpredictable form of the three versions,…
HARARE – Popular radio personality “Dr Zobha” is expected to thrill fans at Chikumbamarara in Seke tomorrow. The DJ will entertain patrons at H and J nite club while an all-female dance group — the Blue Virgins will dance to his music selection. Chikumbamarara is a leisure spot located in Seke rural area and it…
HARARE – Police have destroyed houses belonging to suspected MDC members in Epworth, in a move that has heightened tensions in the poverty-stricken peri-urban settlement. About 20 ZRP policemen and local council police descended on Epworth’s Dombo Ramwari section where they flattened down four houses. Owners alleged the demolitions were politically- linked. They said they…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s music sensation Oliver ‘Tuku’ Mtukudzi’s is in for a double party as he celebrates his 60th birthday in two separate gigs, organisers say. Josh Hozheri, one of the organisers, told the Daily News the much-hyped celebrations will be divided into a private party at Pakare Paye, Norton and a public party at…
