HARARE – Boxing promoter and Zanu PF activist Stalin Mau Mau confiscated football kit belonging to a local newspaper on Saturday after an off-target ball hit and damaged the view mirror of his car during a match. Mau Mau had parked his Isuzu KB300 at Raylton Sports Club in Harare at an “Owner’s Risk” bay…
HARARE – At his prime, he was the master of tough talk, at one time ordering his protégés to: “strike fear in the heart of the white man. Let them tremble.” This was the time bands of marauding war veterans were violently invading white-owned farms under the guise of land black-empowerment reforms. Decades earlier, President…
MUTARE – Zanu PF secretary for administration Didymus Mutasa yesterday described two top party officials accused of stealing beasts meant for President Robert Mugabe’s party as friends, before nailing them in a court case that attracts a minimum nine-year prison stint. Largely viewed as a Mugabe loyalist in the fractious Zanu PF party, Mutasa was…
HARARE – Warriors coach Klaus-Dieter Pagels has named an 18-man squad of home-based players to meet former African champions Zambia in an unofficial friendly match in Lusaka on Sunday. The friendly, to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Gabon air crash which wiped out a whole generation of Zambian footballers in 1993, falls outside of…
HARARE – Recent reports in the Daily News in which ordinary Zimbabweans revealed that they do not know their sitting Members of Parliament (MPs) is sad. It is criminal that since going into office five years ago, the sitting MPs have been absent from their constituencies. In interviews, the electorate said while they voted for…
HARARE – Twenty horses entered the final acceptance event of this year’s edition of the Castle Tankard race set for May 4 at Borrowdale Racecourse. Speaking at the launch yesterday, Delta Corporation’s executive Max Karombo said they were happy to be associated with the prestigious race. “We at Delta Beverages have a very reason to…
TORONTO – Iran has denied any links to two men arrested in Canada on suspicion of planning an attack on a train. Canadian officials said an attack had been planned with support from al-Qaeda elements in Iran, although there was no evidence of state sponsorship. Chiheb Esseghaier, 30, and Raed Jaser, 35, are due to…
HARARE – The Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries (CZI) says peaceful elections are key to business and in consolidating economic gains realised in the past few years. Zimbabwe is expected to hold watershed elections — in which President Robert Mugabe squares off Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai — this year. Traditionally, the country’s polls have been violent,…
MASVINGO – One person died while thousands are now homeless after a hailstorm left a trail of destruction in Rutenga and surrounding areas of Mwenezi District at the weekend. The violent storm killed livestock, wild animals and destroyed crops due for harvest. The identity of the deceased could not be obtained at the time of…
HARARE – Two Harare children have drowned after deciding to cool themselves before attending a church service, police have said. Acting Harare police spokesperson, Tarirai Dube said Osama Raymond, 12, and Ashley Tafadzwa, 13, drowned on Sunday morning at Supersand Dam in Waterfalls. Dube said Raymond and Tafadzwa, who reside at Eyescourt Farm in Waterfalls,…
