HARARE – Zimbabwe cricket all-rounder Greg Lamb has retired from the game in frustration due to limited game time and low pay. “I’m just tired now, I haven’t got enough of the game as I used to,” Lamb told the Daily News yesterday. “I have a family to support, I wasn’t getting enough money…
HARARE – Zimbabwe Older Persons Organisation is creating new chapters in the provinces and metropolitan cities to cater for the needs of the elderly. Henry Maphosa, secretary of the organisation formerly-known as Zimbabwe Senior Citizens Foundation, said they have a membership of 1 000 elderly people in Harare alone. “The organisation was formed in 2004…
HARARE – They are hip and full of swag and they are Zanu PF’s new youth movement. After decades of grey- haired men being the face of the Zanu PF youth, a new breed is coming on board. Through fashion, one such “founder” of this youth movement, James Pande, is making a statement that “Zanu…
HARARE – Harare City continued with their fine run in the Castle Premiership with a victory over strugglers Tripple B here yesterday. The Sunshine boys found the back of the net through Osborn Mukuradare and Nathan Ziwini to move into second place on the log standings. City dominated the opening exchanges of the game and…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe 89, will probably be giving his last shot at the presidency when he locks horns with Morgan Tsvangirai during the Presidential election expected anytime this year. As Zimbabweans gear for that watershed presidential election, the nation has in recent weeks been exposed to a different Mugabe—jovial and peace-loving. Mugabe has…
HARARE – Rural and small-scale farmers usually confined to mundane lives in their communities are painting parts of Harare red. They are financially strong thanks to the tobacco selling season. And they are not leaving Harare’s bright lights without having a taste of the capital’s fun and vice. For sex workers, information traders, petty thieves…
HARARE – Leading Zimbabwean cricket writer and broadcaster Dean du Plessis is now a married man, but he only had his wedding ring for two days before a strong wave on the beach during honeymoon swept the bling into the sea! The 36-year-old walking encyclopaedia, a Daily News and Daily News on Sunday columnist and…
HARARE – Whoever said Zimbabwe is a country-and-a-half is the most genius contemporary philosopher of our time. Recent news that the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) had placed under punishment three of its officers for a period of two weeks baffles the mind. The three officers’ punishment is as a result of an “offence” that they…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s often warring parties, in a rare show of unity, have come out guns blazing against a separatist movement which is threatening war. The South African-based Mthwakazi Liberation Front (FLM) (Mthwakazi) is seeking to have Zimbabwe sliced into two halves. The group says this will represent what it claims were the original historic…
MUTARE – Shabanie Mine had to come from behind to collect maximum points when they handed Buffaloes their fourth defeat inside five games here yesterday. The home team had drew first blood through a Shepherd Nkata header off a Phillip Thembani corner kick in the ninth minute. Shabanie however put up a spirited second half…
