HARARE – The Zimbabwe Under-17 football team that drew 2-2 at home with Mozambique on Saturday curiously had no player from reigning Zimbabwe Under-16 schools champions, Mzingwane, and runners-up Pamushana. This raised questions whether the team, which was selected after a whirlwind countrywide talent search, was indeed the best crop of talent in that age…
HARARE – Now that President Robert Mugabe has signed into law the Electoral Act we hope that other cogs crucial for ensuring a free and fair election will follow. The Electoral Act that among other things sets a timeframe on poll results announcement as well as confront the violence scourge emblematic of the country’s troubled…
HARARE – Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has met Nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan in Abuja for bilateral talks. Tsvangirai is in Nigeria as a guest of honour at a conference for orphans being held in the Imo State. He is a guest of the governor of the State of Imo, Owelle Rochas Okorocha. A governor since…
HARARE – Warriors kingpin Knowledge Musona yesterday completed his return to Zimbabwe colours when he joined camp ahead of Sunday’s crucial 2013 African Nations Cup qualifier away to Angola. The Warriors travel to Luanda to face the Palancas Negras this weekend carrying a seemingly healthy 3-1 first leg lead from the first leg in Harare…
HARARE – A constitution Select Committee (Copac) finance and administration manager has appeared before a Harare magistrate on corruption charges. Gift Marunda, 46, who is also Copac’s acting national coordinator is accused of depriving the constitution-making body of over $18 000 after awarding a contract to a non-befitting company. The court heard that Marunda approved…
HARARE – Stan Mudenge should have been at home, retired on health grounds and recuperating. Instead, he nearly suffered the indignity of dying in public. Tragically but thankfully, he collapsed in the relative privacy of his hotel room, away from the audience he was to address. But it should not have reached this point. Mudenge…
HARARE – A senior Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) operative and businessperson claiming to be President Robert Mugabe’s relative has been arrested for attempting to extort over $300 000 from a brick-making company director. Justin Wellington Mataure, 54, who gave his business address as President’s office, Hardwick House Operations Branch One was last Friday brought before…
HARARE – Munyaradzi Kereke the former advisor to Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor, Gideon Gono, was on July 8, 2007 accused of causing terror in Masvingo where he was charged with assault, malicious damage to property and discharge of a firearm while threatening his girlfriend. The Daily News managed to obtain a police memorandum chronicling…
KAROI – Teenager Matirasa Ndakaitei* battled to control tears when she gave birth to a premature underweight baby at Karoi District Hospital. She was discharged to maintain the new baby under kangaroo care at her rural home under chief Nyamhunga, 60 kilometres out of Karoi town. Strapping the newly-born baby on her chest, she could…
HARARE – Zimbabwe PGA Tour contender Brendon de Jonge was left gutted after missing the $4, 5 million jackpot cheque at the Las Vegas Open losing out to American Ryan Moore. The American, rock-solid over the closing stretch, fended off playing partner de Jonge in a final-round duel to win his second PGA Tour title…
