HARARE – Zimbabwe cricket coach Andy Waller has set conditions for the return of batsman Charles Coventry to the team ahead of March’s ICC World Twenty20. Waller said Coventry, who is currently playing cricket in Dubai, should avail himself for next week’s domestic Twenty20 matches set for Harare Sports Club between February 10 and 15….
BULAWAYO – Zimbabwe’s representatives in THE 2014 edition of the African Confederation Cup, How Mine, will be out for a comprehensive first leg win against Zanzibar’s Chuoni FC when the two sides meet in the preliminary round at Barbourfields Stadium on Saturday. Chikurupati head coach Philani “Beefy” Ncube told the Daily News yesterday that his…
HARARE – Harare residents have reacted with outrage over disclosure that the City of Harare funds its top-flight football club to the tune of $1.6 million, apparently at the expense of ratepayers. Norman Markham, the council’s finance committee chairperson, resigned from his post this week in protest over, among other things, the bankrolling of Zimbabwean…
HARARE – Former Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor Gideon Gono has said his ex-adviser Munyaradzi Kereke is basing corruption claims against him on false allegations driven by malice and a desire to settle personal grudges. Kereke filed a Constitutional Court application, seeking to push the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) to investigate Gono on graft…
HARARE – Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (Badea)’s executives are in Zimbabwe to review performance of a $5 million loan facility granted to government through CBZ Bank Limited (CBZ). A senior CBZ official yesterday confirmed the development, adding they had “so far disbursed just under a million dollars” of the funds — targeted…
HARARE – Exor Petroleum (Private) Limited (Exor) — one of the country’s pioneering indigenous fuel companies — has formed a joint venture, PetromocExor, with Mozambique oil giant Petroleos de Mocambique (Petromoc). The partnership will see the gradual rebranding of all local Exor service stations to reflect the new PetromocExor brand. Felizberto Guizemana, the Exor general…
HARARE – Government’s economic blue print, Zimbabwe Agenda for sustainable socio-economic transformation (ZimAsset), must be practical if the country is to attract meaningful funding, industrialists say. Former Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries (CZI) president, Callisto Jokonya, yesterday told a ZimAsset workshop in the capital that “without funding, goals set by the ambitious economic roadmap will remain…
HARARE – Measures being taken to bring sanity to scandal-ridden Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) spearheaded by Media, Information and Broadcasting Services minister Jonathan Moyo are laudable. We believe that all looters who thrust their dirty hands into the ZBC cash register must be brought to account without mercy. However, it is harsh that workers who…
HARARE – Health communication experts have noted a worrying trend in HIV and Aids prevention especially with the advent and widespread use of anti-retroviral drugs. The fear of contracting the disease or fear of losing life has greatly diminished because the scary sights of near skeletal Aids sufferers have gone underground thanks to these life-prolonging…
HARARE – United Family International Church (UFIC) founder Emmanuel Makandiwa owns a controlling stake in Zimbabwe Stock Exchange-listed Radar Holdings (Private) Limited (Radar) among other multi-million dollar businesses. The popular prophet, who believes in the doctrine of hard work and servant leadership modelled along biblical greats such as King David, also owns a raft of…
