HARARE – Ever since they emerged on the top plight scene in the 2011 season, FC Platinum have been considered to be the local premiership’s equivalent to Manchester City. Due to their vast financial resources, the Zvishavane-based side was able to attract most of the leading top players in the country. Forward Donald Ngoma is…
HARARE – If interim coach Steven Mangongo was disappointed with the team after the loss of the second Test match; he is more than likely as angry as a black mamba whose sleep had been disturbed by a passing animal. The question is. Will any drastic measures be taken, or, will he decide to stick…
DAMASCUS – Syria has accused Israel of launching rocket attacks on Damascus, after a night of huge explosions near the city. Syrian state media said the rockets hit the Jamraya research centre, which Western officials have suggested is involved in chemical weapons research. Israeli radio quoted a senior security official confirming an attack, and sources…
HARARE – Dynamos goalkeepers’ coach Tichaona Diya was expelled from the just ended elite Fifa goalkeeping course after absconding lectures earlier this week. The DeMbare coach defied orders from the course facilitator by leaving the course venue to attend the midweek match pitting his team and reigning log leaders FC Platinum on Wednesday. While the…
HARARE – Zimbabwe most successful football club, Dynamos, could be sold for up to five million dollars if the club’s founders accept an offer tabled by a wealthy South African businessman, the Daily News can reveal. The club’s founding fathers, who include board chairman Freddy Mkwesha, finance director Robson Rundaba, administration director Bernard Marriot Lusengo…
HARARE – Caps United’s early season promise continued to wither as they fell victim to a determined Shabanie Mine who condemned them to their second defeat on the trot in the Castle Premiership here yesterday. United were fighting for redemption following their 1-0 defeat to Chicken Inn last weekend but with a shaky central defence…
HARARE – A youth leader in Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC will appear in court tomorrow charged with telling a rally that President Robert Mugabe was a “limping donkey.” MDC Youth Assembly chairman Solomon Madzore has been held at Bindura Police Station since Thursday, when he surrendered himself to police after he was summoned to…
HARARE – Harare city councillors want to award themselves iPads in one of the last council sessions before a general election expected after June. The package comes after councillors have approved the purchase of a Toyota Land Cruiser VXV8 valued at $190 000 for town clerk Tendai Mahachi and a Jeep Grand Cherokee valued at…
HARARE – PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe has insisted that the country will hold harmonised elections by June 29 when the life of the Seventh Parliament comes to an end. Addressing members of the Zanu PF central committee at his party headquarters in Harare yesterday, Mugabe said the mandate of the inclusive government and Global Political Agreement…
BULAWAYO – President Robert Mugabe’s firm grip on the military is a cause for concern, especially with Zimbabwe heading for what could be do-or die elections, a US human rights centre has said. A delegation from the Robert F Kennedy Centre for Justice and Human Rights (RFK) which was in the country last week said…
