HARARE – Zimbabwean athlete Gabriel Mvumvure failed to reach the 60m finals at World Indoor Championships on Saturday in Sopot, Poland. Mvumvure stumbled during his race and finished third in a time of 6.60 seconds, which was not quick enough to qualify for the finals. The United States-based athlete needed to finish in the top…
HARARE – Zimbabwean track and field star Ngonidzashe Makusha is out of the IAAF World Indoor Championships after he failed to meet the qualifying standard when he leaped to 7.85m on Friday in Sopot, Poland. Makusha, who missed the 2012 Olympic Games in London due to an injury, was been pushing to qualify for the…
HARARE – Zimbabwe Under-19 cricket coach, Walter Chawaguta has singled out all-rounder Luke Jongwe and leg-spinner Deven Bell for praise during the team’s disappointing show at the Youth World Cup that ended in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) last week. The team finished 11th at the World Cup after beating host UAE in their last…
BULAWAYO – The Zimbabwe Soccer Coaches Association (Zisca) Bulawayo Province is calling upon aspiring and practicing coaches to enrol in their forthcoming coaching courses that are set to get underway today at Eveline High School. Zisca Bulawayo Province secretary, Marko Dube told the Daily News on Sunday that a total of three courses will be…
HARARE – Zimbabwean bakers are financially distressed with most of them producing at way below capacity, the National Bakers Association of Zimbabwe (NBAZ) says. Givemore Mesoemvura, the association’s president, said while the bread price has remained unchanged at $1 per loaf since dollarisation in 2009, the bakers have been facing escalating operating costs, particularly of…
HARARE – Lafarge Cement Zimbabwe (Lafarge) missed its $90 million revenue target by 24,8 percent to record $67,6 million in the year to December 2013 due to reduced local and export sales volumes. The realised revenue was 3,3 percent down from prior year’s $69,9 million. Cement demand has generally been depressed due to depressed construction…
JOHANNESBURG – Platinum mining companies are paying their chief executive officers 199 times more than they are paying mineworkers, the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (Amcu ) said. “The CEO of Lonmin, Ben Magara, was paid R6 million; Impala paid its former CEO, David Brown, R13 million; and, Anglo American Platinum paid its CEO,…
EDITOR — It is amazing that an international media house like the Associated Press (AP) gives space to the former US Congressman who was recently deported from Zimbabwe over pornography charges and violation of Zimbabwe immigration laws. It appears anything about Zimbabwe is newsworthy to these international media. It betrays logic for AP to believe…
HARARE – MDC secretary general Tendai Biti could be in hot water after admitting his party lost to Zanu PF in the watershed July 31 elections due to poor electoral messages. Biti, who was addressing a meeting of civic groups and academic leaders in the capital Thursday, had previously alleged they lost the polls due to…
HARARE – As we long predicted, the brouhaha within the MDC over the ill-advised push by the party’s deputy treasurer-general, Elton Mangoma, to oust Morgan Tsvangirai from the leadership of the movement was always going to end badly. Mangoma has now been suspended, amid indications that Tsvangirai’s supporters are baying for the expulsion of the…
