LONDON – The message from Novak Djokovic could not have been more emphatic after the Serb retained his title at the ATP World Tour Finals with a crushing victory over Rafael Nadal on Monday. Nadal deservedly ends the year on top of the rankings after an incredible comeback from injury but Djokovic delivered an ominous…
MOGADISHU – An attack Friday night on a hotel in Somalia’s capital left five people dead and at least 15 wounded, a government spokesman said. The bloodshed came after a car bomb went off outside Hotel Makkah Al-Mukarama in central Mogadishu, Abdikarim Hussein Guled, the African country’s interior and national security minister, told local media….
HARARE – Survivors root through the splintered wreckage of their homes searching for loved ones who may be buried beneath. Others are scrambling to find food and water in areas littered with corpses. Three days after Super Typhoon Haiyan, one of the strongest storms in recorded history, scythed across the central Philippines, people here are…
HARARE – Fear has gripped Harare residents as government’s planned demolition of illegal structures in the capital begins tomorrow. Coinciding with the onset of the rainy season, authorities will on Tuesday be moving in to clear slums across Harare, where 4 million people live. Since last week, the operation to clear slums, which started in…
HARARE – A convicted estate agent has been arraigned before the Harare Magistrates’ Court for duping a home seeker before selling her a house belonging to British tycoon Nicholas van Hoogstraten. Absolom Gambura, 34, who was recently slapped with a five-year prison term after being convicted on a theft of trust property charge, is back…
HARARE – Morgen Komichi, the MDC chief elections agent recently released from Chikurubi Maximum Security Remand Prison, who was arrested for whistleblowing on alleged electoral fraud, has recounted his “dehumanising” prison experience. While magistrates refer to jail time rehabilitation for convicted criminals giving them a chance to become useful members of the society, Komichi described…
HARARE – There was much trepidation among Zimbabwean journalists and publishers when Jonathan Moyo was recently appointed Media, Information and Broadcasting Services minister. This understandable fear stemmed from Moyo’s legacy in this ministry a decade ago, a dark period in the country’s post-independent history that witnessed the forced closure of four newspapers by the government…
HARARE – In A bid to keep abreast of the fast-growing mobile money market in Zimbabwe, State-owned mobile telephone operator NetOne have upped their value-added services by re-launching OneWallet last week. The revamped mobile banking platform now incorporates money transfers across all networks unlike when it was first launched in 2011 when money transfers were…
HARARE – An executor has been appointed in a $600 000 Harare property wrangle which has sucked in officials from the Registrar of Deeds office. The matter involves a Harare woman, Audrey Aisha James, who is suing three other respondents over the Avondale property. The matter could not be heard at the High Court last…
HARARE – Chartered Institute of Secretaries (CIS) 2013 examination candidates have accused the examination body of not furnishing them with all the necessary material before their examinations. The candidates, who spoke to the Daily News on condition of anonymity allege that last week they started their examinations without having had access to the “Integrative Case…
