DUBAI – Dynamos will forever rue their vulnerability to defend at set pieces after going down 3-0 to Tunisian side Club Athletic Bizertin in the African Champions League first round qualifier on Sunday. This defeat was a result of the DeMbare players pressing the self-destruct button in the second half, allowing Bizertin to run away…
HARARE – South African President Jacob Zuma wants a Sadc team to be stationed in Zimbabwe as Harare heads for make-or-break elections expected as early as July. In a report to the Sadc Troika on politics, defence and security cooperation meeting attended by Zimbabwean government leaders early this month, Zuma said Sadc needs to be…
MASVINGO – A Masvingo magistrate has denied three South African nationals bail after they brutalised two Zimbabweans after a botched diamond deal in Bikita. Magistrate Lyn Manyika remanded the South Africans, Jonathan Greyling, 25, Carle Shoun Steyler, 23, and Gordon Ryan Keena, 25, in custody after they were arrested on March 10 for assaulting locals…
BIZERTE – Dynamos coach Calisto Pasuwa conceded the 3-0 defeat by Club Athletic Bizertin could prove costly to the club’s hopes of qualifying for the mini-league phase of the African Champions League. The Zimbabwean champions now face a mammoth task to qualify for the final qualifying round of Africa’s premier club competition as they now…
HARARE – Despite security instability currently prevailing in strife-torn Egypt, the country’s interior ministry has agreed to allow fans to attend the World Cup qualifier between Zimbabwe and the Pharaohs in Alexandria next week. Security instability has dominated the North African nation recently, especially since the verdict in the Port Said trial on 9 March….
LUSAKA – Zambia’s ex-President Rupiah Banda has appeared before an official panel to answer allegations of corruption during his three year in power. Police barricaded roads leading to the national anti-drugs offices in the capital Lusaka, where Mr Banda was questioned for more than two hours behind closed doors, reports say. Zambia’s parliament stripped him…
HARARE – Regional MPs have given Zimbabwe’s referendum the green light, saying the process was “on the whole, a credible reflection of the will of the people of Zimbabwe”. In an interim statement to the media in Harare yesterday, the Sadc Parliamentary Forum (Sadc PF) observer mission leader Prince Guduza Dlamini said Zimbabweans had been…
HARARE – Zimbabwe has an adequate pool of resources to allow elimination of user fees for pregnant women, children under five and those over 65 in rural clinics, a government minister has said. Henry Madzorera, the Health and Child Welfare minister, said government has enforced a policy scrapping user fees, which are the main barrier…
HARARE – A chief teller at FBC Bank collapsed in the dock yesterday after magistrate Lazarus Murendo told him he would spend the next two years in prison for stealing from his employer. Alfred Madzokere, 28, had to be taken out of the court room by prison guards to his new home while still unconscious….
HARARE – Total votes – 3 316 082. Yes – 3 079 966. No – 179 489. Rejected – 56 627.
