HARARE – Hippo Valley coach Moses Chunga yesterday refused to accept the favourites tag for the Zifa Eastern Region Division One championship insisting the league is still far from being decided. After being pipped to the Castle Premiership ticket by rivals Triangle last year, Hippo Valley came back a more recharged side and they are…
HARARE – Bright Chipongo and Greer Wynn capped a fine Sunday afternoon winning the road cycling nationals in their respective elite men and ladies categories. The road national championships took place on Shamwa Road, 20km outside Harare and featured a 50km race for both boys and girls, 100km for the elite ladies and masters as…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Sevens rugby team failed to repeat the heroics of 2009 by bundling out in the Plate quarterfinal at the just ended IRB Sevens World Cup which was held in Moscow, Russia. Zimbabwe’s painful 26-17 loss to Samoa ended in controversial circumstances when two crucial decisions went the way of the Pacific…
HARARE – No untried band in the history of Zimbabwean music has ever attracted so much hype and controversy as Extra Kwazvose. With neither a show nor a song to their name, the offshoot of Alick Macheso’s Orchestra Mberikwazvo has attracted over 6 000 followers just two months after signing up for Facebook. Extra Kwazvose…
HARARE – The Daily News will from today up until elections bring you interviews and profiles of those contesting the legislative elections. Through interviews, it will be up to voters to choose their preferred candidates. Today we talk to Grace Kwinjeh, a veteran MDC activist who was last year honoured for coming up with the…
HARARE – Zimbabwe Stock Exchange-listed horticultural concern Interfresh Limited (Interfresh) plans to raise $3 million — to recapitalise operations and retire debt— through a rights offer. Tawanda Namusi, Interfresh company secretary said the expropriation of the group’s Mazoe Citrus Estate (MCE) by government in January resulted in a loss of revenue and assets impairment leaving…
HARARE – Listed financial services group FBC Holdings (FBCH) has disposed of a 7, 31 percent stake to a Mauritius-based international private equity company ShoreCap II Limited for $4, 9 million. The group plans to channel the undisclosed proceeds towards boosting its micro-finance business. “The sale constitutes 7,31 percent of the issued share capital of…
HARARE – Investment group Empowerment Corporation (Private) Limited (EC) is to increase its shareholding in Telecel Zimbabwe (Telecel), as the mobile group moves to fulfil its licensing obligations, businessdaily can reveal. This also comes as Harare businessman and President Robert Mugabe’s nephew Patrick Zhuwao has been appointed EC managing director and Telecel’s parent has announced…
HARARE – Life in the Big Brother Africa House has so far proved to be a case of perpetually ducking evictions for Zimbabwe’s housemates Pokello and Hakeem who face the chop again this week.Housemates from the rest of Africa appear determined to send Zimbabweans packing from the BBA House. On Monday Pokello received the highest…
JOHANNESBURG – ZIMBABWEAN property mogul Frank Buyanga bought a R4 million Rolls-Royce Ghost three years ago, but still has not had a chance to drive it. The luxury car has been locked up at the Sunnyside Police Station in Pretoria since it was impounded in December 2010 on its way to Zimbabwe. Buyanga says his…
