BULAWAYO – Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC has started distributing maize seed in Matabeleland to disabled people and children orphaned by HIV. The party unveiled the aid programme after noting that most of the vulnerable people were not receiving anything under government projects. The inclusive government has programmes to distribute food and farming inputs to…
HARARE – FC Platinum defender Daniel Veremu has set his sights on a Zimbabwe national side return after his club bailed him out of the career-threatening Asiagate match-fixing scandal. The Mutoko-born defender was among players cleared by Zifa last year in the biggest scandal ever to hit Zimbabwean football on condition they paid admission of…
HARARE – Capital Bank Corporation Limited (Capital Bank) has submitted its recapitalisation plan to the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) after it missed the December 31, 2012 deadline. According to RBZ’s phased recapitalisation requirement, commercial and merchant banks are supposed to have a minimum capital of $100 million by June 2014. In the first phase,…
HARARE – Police have nabbed over 50 touts in Harare city centre who will appear in court today. This comes after rank marshals and touts who had been removed from bus ranks last year begin to resurface. Provincial spokesperson Tadious Chibanda said due to the “noise and inconvenience” caused by touts, law enforcement agents will…
HARARE – Zimbabwe has secured three home series in 2013 with Bangladesh, India and Sri Lanka all lined up to tour the country in the year. Schedules have not been finalised, but Bangladesh will arrive in the country soon after Zimbabwe returns from the Caribbean at the end of March. Test cricket’s lowest ranked…
HARARE – Some schools have been barring students who have not yet paid fees from attending classes, in direct defiance of a government order. Yesterday, the Daily News was inundated with reports that school pupils had been barred from entering premises because of non-payment of fees countrywide. At Chirodzo Primary school in Mbare and Kundayi…
HARARE – Matabeland Tuskers and Manicaland Mountaineers both completed seven-wicket wins over Mashonaland Eagles and Midwest Rhinos in Coca Cola Pro50 Championship matches yesterday. Tuskers bowled out Eagles for 157 inside 43.2 overs at Queens Sports Club in Bulawayo with former Zimbabwe international Sean Ervine claiming 3-31 in seven overs. Seamer Glenn Querl and spinner…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe is rushing back to Harare today in a last-ditch effort to clear the last hurdles in the constitution-making process. Cutting short his annual vacation in the Far East, Mugabe is expected to arrive in Zimbabwe today where he will face a nation seeking answers on the Copac crisis, two weeks…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s Supreme Court will next week set down a final appeal by a renegade Anglican bishop who is challenging the dismissal by the High Court of an urgent application to stop evictions from church properties he had unlawfully seized. Ex-communicated Bishop Nolbert Kunonga’s appeal against High Court Judge George Chiweshe’s dismissal of the…
HARARE – The inaugural MDC secretary for security, Job Sikhala, who now leads the smallest faction of the popular party, has a lot of fire in his belly. He might have been relegated to the lower echelons of politics but he still can pack a punch. This week he reminded Zimbabweans of how it will…
