HARARE – Faction riddled Zanu PF has expelled controversial Harare businessman Munyaradzi Kereke from the party for insubordination after he insisted in running for Parliament despite being barred by the former ruling party. Kereke was eying the Bikita West constituency but Zanu PF refused to allow him to contest in the primary elections saying he…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s main presidential rivals have kicked off the final weeks of an election campaign, with President Robert Mugabe dramatically scaling down major rallies in all the key battlegrounds. Mugabe, whose Zanu PF party lost the 2008 elections after addressing dozens of star rallies countrywide, is expected to address only 10 star rallies while…
HARARE – The Daily News’ Elections Map crafted by the top newspaper’s Elections Centre reveals that Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s dominance in provinces outflanks that of his rival President Robert Mugabe ahead of the 2013 harmonised elections. The map shows that Tsvangirai has an edge over Mugabe in the provinces of Manicaland, Harare, Matabeleland North,…
HARARE – Zimbabwe national football team utility player Hardlife Zvirekwi has urged his teammates to use their 2014 World Cup disappointment as motivation ahead of the Cosafa Cup. The Warriors begin their defence of the title they won in 2009, when they clash in the quarterfinals against the Flames of Malawi this Saturday at Nkoloma…
HARARE – Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC has formally written to regional bloc Southern African Development Community (Sadc) for recourse saying the July 31 poll was “illegal” as it was foisted on Zimbabwe by President Robert Mugabe in utter disregard of the rule of law and international sense. MDC secretary general Tendai Biti told a…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe national football team will leave for Zambia Thursday morning for the Cosafa Cup aboard a chartered plane, Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) confirmed last night. Coach Klaus-Dieter Pagels and his squad had been scheduled to endure a six-hour drive to Lusaka but they were given a morale booster after it emerged that…
HARARE – The new look Zimbabwe national rugby team stunned Madagascar 18-38 in front of a 40 000-strong home crowd in Antananarivo on Wednesday in the Africa Cup opening match. The ill-tempered match almost ended in tragedy when Sables front rower Simba Mandioma had a piece of his ear bitten off by a Malagasy player…
POLOKWANE – The Zimbabwe Under-18 schools rugby team finally exorcised the ghosts of Limpopo Blue Bulls that had haunted them for the past two years with an impressive 5-43 victory at the Old Peter Mokaba Stadium on Wednesday. The Young Sables defence has been in good shape at this year’s edition of the Coca-Cola Craven…
BULAWAYO – Zambian Kelvin Kaindu enjoyed a magnificent debut season as the Highlanders head coach by leading the Bulawayo giants to a second place finish in the league race last season. This was unexpected as Kaindu had inherited a team made up mainly of players who had been off-loaded by their former teams after being…
HARARE – Thomas Sithole has promised to introduce new and efficient ways if elected to be the new secretary general of the Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa (Anoca). The veteran Zimbabwean sports administrator, who is the outgoing IOC Director of International Cooperation and Development, will be up against incumbent Khaled Eldin of Egypt…
