HARARE – Zimbabwe will next week send a team to the Masters World Cup Hockey tournament in Rotterdam, Netherlands, for the first time in the country’s history. The Masters World Cup is an unofficial World Cup for former hockey players over the age of 40. Managed by sports enthusiast Kevin Whatman, a Mashonaland hockey captain…
HARARE – Cricket fans nationwide received another crippling blow when the news broke that former captain and bowling coach Heath Streak signed a two-year deal with the BCB [Bangladesh Cricket Board] to take up the position of bowling coach. This damning news followed a week after Grant Flower relinquished his job as the current batting…
HARARE – Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai’s wife Elizabeth yesterday insisted that her husband was fit after falling “sick just like any other human being” and was strong enough to resume his duties. Speaking to the Daily News at the couple’s Harare home yesterday, Elizabeth said her husband was not seriously ill as suggested by the…
HARARE – Inmates are surviving through the grace of God as the Zimbabwe Prison and Correctional Services (ZPCS) has been hit by a critical shortage of basics such as food, water, sanitation, accommodation and clothing, an official has said. Agrey Huggins Machingauta, the deputy commissioner of prisons, yesterday told the parliamentary thematic committee on Human…
HARARE – The Constitutional Court has assigned another regional magistrate to handle Caps Holdings chairperson and FCM Motors director, Frederick Mutanda’s trial on charges of breaching the Exchange Control Act. Mutanda, through advocate Thabani Mpofu, had applied for a permanent stay of prosecution arguing his constitutional rights had been violated. Chief Justice Godfrey Chidyausiku dismissed…
HARARE – Businessman Phillip Chiyangwa has claimed that record National Arts Merit Awards (Nama) winner Jah Prayzah is his “blood brother.” Chiyangwa said this at Suluman Chimbetu’s 32nd birthday party held at Harare’s Book Café on Tuesday night. He said he had deliberately kept his relationship with Jah Prayzah under wraps. “We did not want…
HARARE – Harare residents have warned that they could unfurl street protests against the police if a lasting solution to road carnage caused by traffic police smashing kombi windscreens was not found. The street protest threat was made at a stakeholders dialogue held at the Anglican Cathedral yesterday to find solutions to the growing problem…
HARARE – An inquest into the explosion that rocked Zengeza suburb in Chitungwiza in January last year has revealed that the traditional healer Speakmore Mandere was dabbling in mercury deals. The Chitungwiza blast occurred on January 21 last year and killed five people. It rocked Ndororo Street and caused massive damage to houses within a…
HARARE – Audition dates for Big Brother Africa (BBA) Season 9, which kicks off on September 7 this year, will be finalised next month. In a press statement released on Monday, organisers of Africa’s biggest reality show revealed that the Big Brother Africa auditions would be open to people over the age of 21 resident…
HARARE – Veteran artiste Mechanic Manyeruke is scheduled to leave for Canada this morning along with seven other gospel musicians to do six concerts in the North American country. Manyeruke is leaving for the month-long Canadian tour with Thembalami, Bethen Pasinawako-Ngolomi, ex-Zimpraise member Primrose Njewa who did the lead vocals on Sungano and the Zimpraise…
