HARARE – Although Zimbabwe has never been a highly-ranked cricketing nation, it is astonishing to note how many players from this country have represented world XI teams. The leader of the pack was Dave Houghton of course, who played for several world invitational teams throughout his career. In fact, his average for world XI teams…
MASVINGO – Treasury is stopping bankrolling the National Youth Fund this year amid transparency concerns in the manner the cash has been disbursed by the ministry of Youth, a junior minister has said. Deputy Youth Minister Tongai Matutu told the Daily News government, through the ministry of Finance, was contemplating stopping the partisan allocations of…
HARARE – The Traffic Safety Council of Zimbabwe has released a seven-track album and a musical video in its bid to improve safety on the country’s roads. The album entitled Tsaona was composed by Apostolic Christian Church of Zimbabwe while the video was adopted from Pastor Charles Charamba’s Musatyaire Makadhakwa off his 2007 album New…
HARARE – The National Social Security Authority (Nssa) has released $15 million dollars to urban local authorities, in response to government appeals for an emergency response to avert the risk of an outbreak of cholera and typhoid in urban areas. The appeal was made last month by Local Government, Urban and Rural Development Minister Ignatius…
HARARE – Zimbabwe Cricket (ZC) has been ridden with controversies and internal squabbles as far back as I can remember. The current row between Sport minister David Coltart and ZC’s selectors convenor Givemore Makoni, therefore, sparks a sad sense of déjà vu to me and I dare say all those who have keenly followed Zimbabwean…
HARARE – Newly-promoted Castle Premiership side Tripple B will hold trials tomorrow as the club seeks to reinforce their squad for the upcoming 2013 season. Tripple B coach Friday “Amayenge” Phiri, who also guided Monomotapa into the Premiership in 2004, said the Beitbridge outfit is looking to acquire at least eight new players with top-flight…
HARARE – Chess in Zimbabwe is dominated by male players. However, Zimbabwe national women chess champion Tatenda Zengeni is set to break newground Zengeni started playing chess when she was 10 years, four years later she was crowned Zimbabwe’s schools chess champion. The 20-year-old Chinhoyi University student, who is popularly known as Polgar Tasty, won…
HARARE – Police in Chivhu have arrested an official in Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC party on allegations of waving his party symbol to a senior police officer. MDC deputy district chairperson for Chikomba West Patrick Chipo Gwini was arrested in Chivhu and was detained for about four hours. Gwini said the police alleged that…
HARARE – The Norton Town Council has started constructing a $19 million water plant set to benefit the town’s estimated 100 000 residents. Council chairperson, Albert Zinyemba said work on the water project had started after the contractor was paid his deposit and the project is expected to last for three months. On completion, the…
HARARE – Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has paid homage to the generation of liberation fighters who established a constitutional order that delivered the 1980 independence in the wake of the finalisation of a new draft constitution. In a statement following the historic pact by the Global Political Agreement (GPA) principals on Thursday, Tsvangirai said the…
