HARARE – Zimbabwe’s top tennis player Takanyi Garanganga’s poor form continues after a first round exit at the US National Indoor Tennis Championships over the weekend. Garanganga lost 6-2 6-3 to America’s Denis Kudla in the first round stage. The Mbare-born player is failing to rediscover his winning formula from last year, having also failed…
BULAWAYO – The country’s representatives in the African Confederations Cup tournament How Mine are expected to jet out for Zanzibar today for a date with Chuoni Football Club in the second leg of their preliminary round encounter set for Saturday. Chikurupati carry a healthy 4-0 lead following their comfortable win over their opponents in the…
HARARE – Luxon Zembe has been ousted as CBZ Holdings Limited (CBZ) chairman in a development possibly related to the fallout of the Premier Service Medical Aid Society (Psmas) salaries debacle. As the business consultant and corporate governance guru was outed as having earned a significant amount of cash in board fees, the listed financial…
HARARE – Former Zimbabwe captain and AmaZulu goalkeeper Tapuwa Kapini is on the mend after suffering a concussion in a changing room incident last month. Although he still remains sidelines and unavailable for selection AmaZulu team manager, Japhet Zwane, revealed that the Zimbabwean has started training now. “He (Kapini) has started training but he isn’t…
HARARE – Acting President Joice Mujuru must resign for “condoning corruption” in government and State-owned enterprises, media experts and political analysts said yesterday. This follows her “outrageous” call for the media to stop covering the obscene salaries of managers of State-owned firms pocketing millions of dollars in pay while the economy stutters. Besides outrageous salaries,…
HARARE – Government’s pledge to increase civil servants’ salaries appears to be a pie in the sky as it emerges that the increment has not been effected as promised. The civil servants were expected to receive their February salaries backdated to last month, according to a pay deal they struck with government, but they will…
HARARE – Cuthbert Dube, the ex-Premier Service Medical Aid Society (Psmas) chief executive, has sought to gag the media from reporting on his unceremonious exit, citing a variety of reasons and procedural flaws. In a surprise warning late yesterday afternoon, the Zimbabwe Football Association president’s lawyers Venturas and Samkange suggested that the media risked multi-million…
HARARE – Eight women from Robert Martin Gumbura’s church, facing charges of possessing and disseminating pornographic pictures, have rejected a police statement they reportedly made and tendered as exhibit in court. Choice Neganye, 32, Amadeus Mutakwa, 32, Rutendo Sekai Mandiya, 28, Pamela Kandawire, 27, Runyararo Musvosvi, 27, Veronica Mbanga, 27 Tendai Kwatara, 34 and Moreblessing…
HARARE – Lovemore Kurotwi, chairperson of Zimbabwe Diamond Technology Centre (ZDTC), has appealed for government support to help in the establishment of a diamond polishing and cutting centre. Kurotwi told a parliamentary portfolio committee on Mines and Energy of the work being done at the ZDTC in Hampden in Zvimba East constituency. Kurotwi led the…
HARARE – Three committee members with Teachers Union of Zimbabwe Ushewokunze Housing Cooperative connived to dupe home-seekers of more than $560 000. Martin Maburutse, 45, Moffat Katuli, 45, and Daniel Chiwandire, 47, appeared before Harare magistrate Vakayi Chikwekwe facing $563 632, 50 fraud. They were remanded to February 12 on $200 bail each. The three…
