HARARE – Zimbabwe women football coach Rosemary Mugadza has expressed satisfaction with her team’s preparations ahead of their next month’s tour of Uruguay. The Mighty Warriors were invited for a five-team tournament that involves hosts Uruguay, Paraguay, Chile and Argentina between March 4 and 10. The team went into camp last week without two of…
HARARE – Stockbrokers are fighting a “lost battle” in trying to block demutualisation of the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE), the Securities Commission of Zimbabwe (SecZim) said. Tafadzwa Chinamo, SecZim’s chief executive, said the brokers will not win the case because government technically owns the bourse through an Act of Parliament. This comes as a wrangle…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s first Lady, Grace Mugabe is now a grandmother, the Daily News can reveal. The First Lady became a grandmother after her 29-year-old son, Russell’s, wife, Gladys, gave birth to a baby boy on Friday last week. The “bundle of joy”, who has been named Taponeswa, is “so gorgeous and adorable,” according to…
HARARE – Former Zimbabwean female tennis prodigy Tanya Gombera has turned to coaching in the United States following a modest playing career. One of a handful of young black players once anointed as heir apparent to leading Zimbabwean female star Cara Black, Gombera did not scale the dizzy heights of international success as a…
BULAWAYO – Zimbabwe’s civil society groups say Zanu PF has resorted to “smart violence” in rural areas as the country heads for a referendum and watershed elections later this year. The groups say it will be difficult for regional grouping Sadc, which facilitated Zimbabwe’s power-sharing accord, to detect this new form of violence. Addressing journalists…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF is terrified about the prospects of a unified Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) in elections anticipated later this year, analysts say. The panic has been exposed by shadowy Herald columnist Nathaniel Manheru who has urged the ex-majority party to brace itself for battle against the MDCs. “Zanu PF…
HARARE – There is a new spring in the step of Zanu PF. Zimbabwe’s governing party, long derided by the country’s citizens and treated as a pariah by the outside world, is suddenly finding itself in a confident position for the first time in 15 years. With elections just months away, Zanu PF is smiling…
HARARE – EX-Zanu PF politburo member and leading lawyer Jacob Mudenda has been appointed to head the new Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission replacing Reginald Austin who resigned in protest late last year over poor funding and political meddling. Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai announced the appointment at a late news conference held at Charter House yesterday….
HARARE – The European Union yesterday removed six top Zanu PF ministers from the sanctions list as reward of an agreement by Zimbabwe’s ruling parties on a draft constitution and the announcement of a referendum on it. However, the EU maintained its measures on President Robert Mugabe and some of his core inner cabal. EU…
HARARE – Dynamos forward Farai Mupasiri failed to travel to Turkey yesterday to take part in the 2013 European Showcase Tour trial. Mupasiri was scheduled to leave the country for a two-week stint organised by United States-based football firm Pro Soccer Consulting (PSC). The Dynamos rookie’s place at the showcase had been facilitated by locally-based…
