HARARE – Top rated filly Equina broke the hearts of many by running out an impressive winner of the 52nd edition of the Castle Tankard here on Saturday. Equina finished first in the $50 000 stakes Grade One race in a time of 119.47 seconds, half-a-length ahead of last year’s winner A King is Born…
LONDON – Prime Minister David Cameron has promised Britain “will do what we can” to help find more than 200 kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls. He made the comments as he held a sign bearing the “#Bring Back Our Girls” slogan on the BBC’s Andrew Marr show. Mr Cameron is the latest high-profile supporter of the social…
KIEV – Pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine’s two eastern regions are holding “self-rule” referendums – a move condemned by the Ukrainian government and the West. BBC correspondents at polling stations report chaotic scenes, no voting booths in places and no electoral register. Self-proclaimed leaders in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions are going ahead with the vote…
HARARE – Despite his advanced age and the mounting economic woes the country is grappling with, President Robert Mugabe is not leaving office yet, with his closest ally in Zanu PF Didymus Mutasa yesterday declaring that the 90-year-old veteran leader is here to stay. Mutasa told the Daily News on Sunday in a brief interview…
HARARE – A Chitungwiza woman was acquitted on culpable homicide charges, following claims that she stabbed her husband to death during a dispute over the man’s alleged extra-marital affairs. The 24-year-old woman Sithembiso Muvhami escaped a conviction after Harare regional magistrate Fadzai Mtombeni ruled that the State had failed to satisfy claims of negligence in…
HARARE – The issue of housing for all continues to be a pipeline dream for Zimbabwean citizens —34 years after attaining Independence. Housing schemes across the country have been involved in various court cases with some being sued for promising a Utopian dream that later does not come true. Council housing schemes have been hogging…
HARARE – The deportation of South African band Freshlyground last week is a poor decision that is going to trigger unwelcome bad publicity at a time Zimbabwe should be doing everything possible to show that we are a working democracy averse to intolerance. While immigration authorities have sarcastically attributed the deportation to the fact that…
HARARE – Striking a balance between motherhood and a career in music has proved a tough lifestyle for many musicians. On Mother’s Day, the Daily News on Sunday interviewed several female musicians in a bid to understand how they juggle looking after their children and pursuing music careers. Edith ‘WeUtonga’ Katiji, who just had a…
HARARE – Seven renegade MDC MPs, who initially joined the Tendai Biti renewal camp, are on their way back to the main formation led by Morgan Tsvangirai after Speaker of Parliament Jacob Mudenda indicated on Thursday he had no powers to save their jobs, the Daily News can reveal. The Daily News is reliably informed…
HARARE – Zimbabwe says it has finally concluded a $750 million takeover deal of its giant iron processor Ziscosteel — now NewZim Steel — by Indian firm Essar Africa Holdings Limited. The deal, under which Essar acquired a 54 percent stake in the Kadoma-based steel maker, was agreed to in November 2011, but stalled due…
