HARARE – Next Tuesday, President Robert Mugabe presides over one of those lavish ceremonies when he uses centuries-old British pageantry to open Zimbabwe’s Parliament. The State opening of Parliament, announced in a government gazette last weekend, will as usual be full of pomp and ceremony — a nod to history and British tradition — if…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s motocross starlets Tristan Granger and Jayden Ashwell are hoping to complete a memorable season when they line up for the national motocross championships at Donnybrook this weekend. Fresh from scooping the Motocross South Africa (MSA) Championship in the 50cc pro and MX2 sections respectively this past weekend, Granger and Ashwell are generally…
HARARE – Thokozani Khupe, the Zimbabwean Deputy Prime Minister, says cancer treatment in the country is not only expensive, but inaccessible and her newly-launched foundation would transform this. In launching her Thokozani Khupe Cancer Foundation on Wednesday, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) deputy leader vowed that the initiative would transform the lives of cancer…
HARARE – A Harare magistrate has jailed a National Railways of Zimbabwe security guard who callously attacked his four-month-pregnant wife for demanding food for the children. Magistrate Lazarus Murendo sentenced Abraham Mamboininga to 35 months in prison for physically abusing his wife on three occasions. Mamboininga was jailed for 32 months for the three counts….
HARARE – Welshman Ncube, leader of the smaller Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) by legislative representation, has made sensational allegations that President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai are colluding to undermine him in Zimbabwe’s ruling coalition. In a wide-ranging interview with the Daily News yesterday, the constitutional lawyer conceded there were no immediate…
HARARE – Jazz 105 in Harare is hosting this year’s edition of an All-White party tonight, an annual event that will pit Suluman Chimbetu supported by different artistes. This year the dendera musician is supported by a jazz outfit — Jabavu Drive. Yasini Dhala, Jazz 105 manager said patrons should wear white colours on the…
HARARE – Local industry players say the economy requires extensive capital inflows to underpin nationwide recapitalisation and position the economy on a sustainable recovery platform. Zimbabwe’s manufacturing sector, which requires an estimated $2 billion to operate at full capacity, is being hampered by challenges including short-term financing systems, low product demand, machine breakdowns, high costs…
HARARE – THIS IS THE SECOND OF A TWO-PART SPeCIAL IN WHICH ZIFA PRESIDENT CUTHBERT DUBE TALKS ABOUT THE CONCLUSION OF THE ASIAGATE MATCH-FIXING PROBE, UNPRECEdeNTED LIFE AND LENGTHY BANS, AFRICAN NATIONS CUP QUALIFICATION FAILURE, DEEP BOARD DIVISIONS, CALLS FOR HIS RESIGNATION AND MORE: ZIFA president Cuthbert Dube has admitted in an exclusive interview that…
HARARE – I have been following, with keen interest, the different forms of punishment meted out to individuals found guilty of match-fixing by the Justice Ebrahim Commission, and the six-month ban slapped on former national team coach Norman Mapeza particularly had me thinking. The Commission justifies the rather lenient sentence slapped on Mapeza by arguing…
BEIJING – China has condemned as a “smear” a New York Times report saying Premier Wen Jiabao’s relatives have accumulated billions of dollars. The article said Mr Wen’s family members “have controlled assets worth at least $2.7bn (£1.7bn)”. A Foreign Ministry spokesman said the report had “ulterior motives”. Both the NYT’s Chinese and English sites…
