HARARE – A Harare magistrate has instructed businessman Energy Mutodi to start depositing this month $450 in his ex-wife’s bank account as maintenance for his child. Mutodi, who divorced his 24-year-old wife Tariro Chirende sometime last year following accusations and counter-accusations, expressed dissatisfaction over the amount he has been ordered to pay. The court heard…
JOHANNESBURG – I followed Dynamos’ 3-0 first leg African Champions League defeat to Tunisia’s Club Athletic Birzetin with lots of nostalgia. May I own up upfront that I have never been a Dynamos supporter from childhood and this used to get me in trouble with my father and brothers because in the whole family, I…
HARARE – Matabeleland South provincial governor, Angeline Masuku, says war veterans should back off from the debate around President Robert Mugabe’s continued occupation of office despite advanced health. Addressing mourners at the burial of veteran journalist and former deputy news editor of the Bulawayo-based Chronicle newspaper, Paul Nkala in Plumtree yesterday, Masuku said war veterans…
HARARE – Ryan Cairns confirmed his status as Zimbabwe’s leading pro after firing a three-under 69 to lift the Golden Pilsener Pre-Open Classic at Royal Harare Golf Club yesterday. Cairns, who had fired a two-over 74 in the first round on Thursday, walked away with a prize of $2 000 having finished with a gross…
MASVINGO – Youth rights groups in Masvingo have expressed panic and fear following recent reports of violence and intimidation. They are warning of a bloodbath in the forthcoming general election if the situation remains volatile without intervention. Speaking during a youth meeting organised by Female Students Network (FSN), several youth organisations rubbished peace calls by…
HARARE – Dozens of protestors thronged the Harare Magistrates’ Courts yesterday to stage a demonstration demanding the release of the nation’s jailed top rights lawyer, Beatrice Mtetwa. Before the demo, anti-riot police swarmed the courts, while others were milling around at the Parliament Building. Waving placards inscribed “Free Beatrice now” and “what you are…
HARARE – Some of the Zanu PF shock troopers who led a violent takeover of white-owned commercial farms in 2000 under the guise of land reform are now singing the blues after government ordered their eviction. At least five families out of the 44 that occupied Stonehurst Farm in Mashonaland West’s Zvimba East constituency are…
HARARE – Castle Lager Premiership returnees, Black Rhinos will give their supporters an insight of what to expect in the new season when they square off with champions Dynamos in a friendly match at Rufaro Stadium this afternoon. Rhinos, who used to boast of football greats back in the days such as the then talismanic…
ALEXANDRIA – Warriors’ first choice goalkeeper Washington Arubi picked up an injury in training yesterday ahead of the Egypt tie, sitting out the rest of the day’s session. The University of Pretoria stopper, who is the Warriors vice-captain, saved a low shot, but the ball ricocheted off the near post and hit his finger. Team…
HARARE – Perched in the farming community of Mapinga in Zvimba East, Mashonaland West Province are two dilapidated tobacco barns that parents have turned into a school. Last week the Daily News on Sunday crew visited the school while checking on the statistics of voters in the area for the country’s constitutional referendum. Mapinga is…
