HARARE – Zimbabwe were yesterday held by continental minnows Mauritius but still managed to progress to the final qualifier of the African Nations Championships (Chan). The Warriors, who won the first leg 3-0 last weekend, advance 4-1 in aggregate and will now face old nemesis Zambia. Captain Masimba Mambare’s strike seven minutes before regulation time…
HARARE – Zimbabwe striker Tendai Ndoro was at the centre of an off field storm following the Warriors’ drawn match with Mauritius at Rufaro Stadium yesterday. This was after the Castle Premiership leading goal scorer’s estranged wife Emilia Chawanda threatened to dump his three-month baby at the ground for his alleged infidelity. Emilia was accompanied…
HARARE – Red-hot Old Hararians maintained pole position in the National Rugby League (NRL) with an emphatic 31-20 win over arch rivals Harare Sports Club in an epic encounter on Saturday at HSC. The win against the defending champions secured the Green Machine’s first double over their bitter city rivals almost eight years. The once…
HARARE – What appears to be a landslide victory for President Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe’s general election marks a huge step backwards in the country’s quest to build a solid and mature democracy that guarantees basic personal and political rights to all citizens. Zanu PF won two thirds majority in Parliament where its dominance had…
HARARE – Amid real fears that Zimbabwe could slide back into the kind of political and economic anarchy that followed the deadly polls of 2008, we implore all political leaders in our country to act with some circumspection over the next few weeks. Emotions are, naturally, running very high after last week’s bitterly-contested harmonised elections…
HARARE – For the third year running, Dynamos bowed out of the African Champions League in the qualifiers after they were bundled out in the first round by Tunisian side Club Athletic Bizertin yesterday. Although Dynamos won yesterday’s match through Cliff Sekete’s 94th minute strike it was a case of a little too late as…
HARARE – An alleged coup plot against Zanu PF administration secretary Didymus Mutasa gives a glimpse of the power struggle within President Robert Mugabe’s party over succession. A clandestine meeting held on Friday night — reminiscent of the 2004 Tsholotsho plot against Mugabe — at the home of Women’s League boss Oppah Muchinguri in Murambi…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF has been accused of stealing 22 years of progress from Zimbabwe due to corruption and misuse of government funds, a top MDC minister has said. MDC secretary-general and Finance minister Tendai Biti told an all-structures conference for Harare leaders on Saturday that the MDC faces a mammoth task…
HARARE – The West and Zimbabwe have begun to re-engage on knotty issues ranging from diplomatic frictions to targeted sanctions on President Robert Mugabe’s regime following a 13-year-long hiatus. Representatives from all three parties of the Government of National Unity (GNU) — Patrick Chinamasa of Mugabe’s Zanu PF, Elton Mangoma of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s…
HARARE – While the numbers of Zimbabwean female musicians continue to grow, female bassists remain a rare breed in this country. In a recent interview with the Daily News on Sunday one of the country’s celebrated female mbira players Hope Masike poured praise on musician Edith weUtonga “for playing the bass guitar-an instrument considered unconventional…
