HARARE – A marriage has been broken after a couple exchanged harsh words over an electricity bill. Moleen Togara reportedly threw her husband Fungai Nyamasvisva out of the house after he failed to pay electricity bills. Nyamasvisva dragged Togara before the Harare Civil Court seeking a peace order against her. He told magistrate Tafadzwa Muvhami…
HARARE – Zimbabwe judokas Lazarus Arufandika and Sydney Chibwayi leave for Chad this morning for a week-long City of N’Ndjamena Judo tournament. Coach Smart Tiyazimba will be accompanying the duo to the Central African country. While in Chad, Tiyazimbi will attend a Level 3 coaching course, an Information Technology course on how to run competitions…
HARARE – The trial of Henry Muringani, the Chitungwiza Magistrates’ Courts public prosecutor, on charges of attempted murder opened yesterday. Muringani ran over his ex-wife Primrose Mbedzi, 29, with a car and pinned her to a precast wall at the height of an altercation. During trial, Mbedzi revealed that when Muringani realised that the she…
HARARE – A Harare woman yesterday told the court that her husband infects her with a sexually transmitted infection (STIs) whenever they make love. Ruramai Vhere hauled her husband, Jethro before the Harare Civil Court seeking a protection order against him. Ruramai told magistrate Tafadzwa Muvhami that she no longer wants to make love to…
HARARE – Zimbabwe cricket team coach Andy Waller is optimistic that the domestic Twenty20 tournament set for next month will go ahead as planned. The tournament is scheduled for February 4 to 9 at Harare Sports Club and the national coach has earmarked the event to select his 15-man squad that will go into battle…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Under-19 cricket team has been hit by injuries ahead of the ICC Under-19 World Cup after partaking in the unsuccessful tour of South Africa last week. The youngsters found the going tough during the five-day Franchise Cubs week in Stellenbosch, winning only one match out of five. The team, however, gained…
ZURICH – Cristiano Ronaldo has banged his head against the brick wall for four years; now the brick wall has given way. Ronaldo was apparently doomed to be forever tortured and defined by the achievements of Lionel Messi. By regaining the Ballon d’Or from Messi, and winning the award for the first time since 2008, he…
CAIRO – Egypt’s army chief Gen. Abdel Fattah el-Sisi said Saturday that he would run for president if the Egyptian people wanted him to, state media reported. El-Sisi, the country’s defense minister, said that “If I run for presidency, it would be by the request of the people and by a mandate from my army,…
PARIS – The first lady of France, Valerie Trierweiler, has been hospitalized since Friday following allegations that President Francois Hollande has been having an affair with a French actress, a top member of Trierweiler’s staff said. Patrice Biancone, head of Trierweiler’s Elysee office, told CNN, “She needed rest. We are hoping that she will leave…
HARARE – Schools re-open tomorrow but a crisis is looming with teachers giving government up to Wednesday to review their salaries which they say fall way below the poverty datum line. In an interview with the Daily News yesterday, Progressive Teachers Union (PTUZ) secretary-general Raymond Majongwe said government needed to honour its promises to award…
