HARARE – The challenge facing Harare City this season is replacing mercurial winger Silas Songani, who joined Danish top-flight side SønderjyskE at the beginning of the year. Songani was instrumental in City’s title charge last season and his unavailability in the final game of the season against CAPS United probably cost the Sunshine Boys the…
HARARE – Nominations for the Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) board elections are set to close tomorrow with all indications pointing to incumbent president Cuthbert Dube winning another four-year term in office. Countdown has already started for the much-anticipated polls, scheduled for March 29, with Dube emerging as early favourite in the battle for Zifa despite…
HARARE – The fifth edition of the ICC World Twenty20 is looming, and Zimbabwe find themselves in a perilous position. Brendan Taylor and his troops are ranked in a tricky qualifying group alongside Netherlands, United Arab Emirates and the vastly- improved Ireland. The Phil Simmons-coached Irishmen have become a formidable team at all levels of…
HARARE – The fourth edition of the Harare International Sevens, on this weekend, will be played at Harare Sports Club’s rugby field after organisers used part of the cricket stadium for the first three editions of the yearly showcase. Zimbabwe Sevens Committee chairman Donald Magenje believes the tournament, like its two forerunners, will be a…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s Africa Boxing Union champion Charles Manyuchi carries the hope of a nation when he takes on Ghanaian Patrick Allotey for the World Boxing Championship in Zambia on Saturday. Manyuchi’s fight is expected to be the main bout while ABU bantamweight women champion Cathrine Phiri would be up against Pia Mazelanik of Germany…
HARARE – At least 47 golfers have entered to take part in the Tour Players Championship set to start at Wingate Park Golf Club tomorrow. The tournament, which is the first on the Zambezi Tour 2014 calendar, has a prize fund of $8 000 and will be played over 36 holes. A strong field of…
HARARE – Tobacco prices have receded to an average of $2,91 per kg this season compared to last year’s $3,49, figures from the Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board (Timb) indicate. Zimbabwe, currently struggling to revive its agriculture sector, is the world’s second-largest producer of Virginia tobacco after Brazil. A tobacco industry insider told businessdaily that…
HARARE – At 90 years, President Robert Mugabe is not getting any younger and this is the time he needs honest and competent advice for him to make informed decisions. Heads of state around the world depend on advice from their aides to make important decisions that impact positively on people who put them in…
HARARE – In the aftermath of his Southern African Political and Economic Series (Sapes) faux pas, one is tempted to say Tendai Biti has done himself and the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) a lot of good by moving to clarify his controversial statements at the discussion forum last week. While this political hard-man’s remarks had…
HARARE – Ex-Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor Gideon Gono’s lawyer Tendai Biti has written to the Constitutional Court seeking to bar Munyaradzi Kereke from being heard after he failed to file his papers on time. Kereke, who is ex- advisor to the RBZ governor, filed a Constitutional Court application seeking to push the Zimbabwe…
