HARARE – Veteran educationist and sports administrator Paul Nenjerama is the new chairperson of the Zimbabwe National Boxing and Control Board (ZNBBC) announced by Sports minster David Coltart yesterday. Nenjerema and his new board have been tasked with leading local boxing back to its glory days after years of stagnation. The other members of the…
HARARE – Deputy Higher Education minister Lutho Tapela says he is being “systematically sidelined” by acting minister Ignatius Chombo and has literally been rendered idle. Tapela, a member of Welshman Ncube’s MDC, says Chombo has not even bothered to talk to him since he was appointed acting minister following the death of Dr Stan Gorerazvo…
HARARE – A daring thief who took advantage of Vice President John Landa Nkomo’s burial and stole a vehicle at the National Heroes Acre has been brought before a Harare magistrate. While the funeral procession was taking place, George Matongo allegedly schemed to steal the car, which he finally succeeded to take out of the…
HARARE – The Office of the Commissioner on Human Rights (OCHR) in Geneva, Switzerland has slammed escalating repression of human rights defenders in Zimbabwe ahead of elections. OCHR spokesperson, Rupert Colville, said the commission noted with concern the increase in arbitrary arrests, intimidation and harassment of human rights activists and innocent citizens. “We condemn recent…
HARARE – Leading Zimbabwean music producer Jusa Dementor recently graduated from University of Derby in the United Kingdom with a joint honours degree in marketing and broadcast media. The former Kutama College whose real name is Tawanda Sibotshiwe, is confident that his newly acquired qualification will enhance his work as a music producer and videographer…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) is haunted by a perception crisis that it is embedded in President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF, the commission’s chief has said. Zec, the body charged with conducting free and fair elections, is accused by opposition parties and civil society organisations of tinkering with the 2008 presidential election results…
HARARE – Watching the African Nations Cup with colleagues in the newsroom on Tuesday as Togo matched the much-fancied Ivory Coast pound-for-pound, I felt a wave of nostalgia for the good old days when the Togolese, then minnows in African football, were easy pickings for Zimbabwe at the National Sports Stadium or at home in…
HARARE – The MDC led by Industry and Commerce minister Welshman Ncube says it will revisit the Constitution with a view to reinstating devolution of power if it wins this year’s elections. The party’s spokesperson Nhlahla Dube admitted in an interview with the Daily News yesterday that they gave away a lot during negotiations with…
HARARE – Following two fruitful seasons in the Zimbabwean top flight league, Dynamos striker Rodreck Mutuma is now on the verge of making an emotional exit from the popular Harare club. Mutuma moved a step closer to landing a contract at South African Premiership outfit Bloemfontein Celtic after impressing during his trial stint at the…
TRIPOLI – Britons should leave the Libyan city of Benghazi immediately in response to a “specific, imminent threat” to Westerners, the Foreign Office says. The British Embassy in Tripoli has been in contact with a “small number” of British nationals whose details it had. Germany and the Netherlands have also urged their citizens to leave…
