FORTALEZA – Germany will be hoping history doesn’t repeat itself when they tackle Ghana in their second World Cup Group G match at Fortaleza tonight. Historically, Die Mannschaft has a tradition of winning their opening group match at World Cup finals, only to struggle in their second game. At the 1994, 1998 and 2002 World…
LONDON – The arch-realist in Carlos Queiroz refused to downplay the scale of the task. The Iran coach was never going to try the usual manager trick of talking about it as just another game. Quite the opposite.“Our match with Argentina will be the most important and biggest in Iran’s history,” Queiroz said of the…
RIO DE JANEIRO – The younger brother of Ivory Coast players Yaya and Kolo Toure died on Thursday, the same day his famous siblings were representing their country at the World Cup, the Ivory Coast Football Federation said. The 28-year-old Ibrahim Toure died in England, the Ivorian federation said in a statement, and Yaya and…
GENEVA – The number of people living as refugees from war or persecution exceeded 50 million in 2013, for the first time since World War Two, the UN says. The overall figure of 51.2 million is six million higher than the year before, a report by the UN refugee agency says. Antonio Guterres, head of…
NAIROBI – Kenya’s government has urged people to watch World Cup football matches in the comfort of their homes instead of in “crowded and unprotected open places”. The advice comes after two days of attacks on Kenya’s coast earlier this week left more than 60 people dead. They started in Mpeketoni as people were watching…
HARARE – Police yesterday raided Herald House looking for the Sunday Mail editor, Edmund Kudzayi, in an unprecedented move which left journalists and executives at the State-controlled Zimpapers stable shell-shocked. He was not at the office at the time of the raid but was reportedly later arrested at his lawyer’s offices. The storming of the…
HARARE – Sungura ace Alick Macheso’ estranged wife Tafadzwa Fortunate Mapako could not hide her joy yesterday as the long-awaited paternity tests proved that the musician is the father of her two children. The award-winning sungura musician had cast doubt on the paternity of the two children. The two approached the National Blood Transfusion Services…
HARARE – Vice President Joice Mujuru yesterday slammed members of an apostolic sect who battered police officers in Budiriro, describing the action as tantamount to slapping the State in the face. Mujuru said police officers who accompanied representatives of the Apostolic Christian Council of Zimbabwe (ACCZ) to ban Madzibaba Ishamea Mufani’s Johane Masowe church on…
HARARE – City Link Luxury Bus Company yesterday apologised for the loss of three passengers in an accident near Norton on Wednesday. The luxury coach, plying the Bulawayo-Harare route, overturned following a head-on collision with a lorry after it was obstructed by smoke from a veld fire. The accident happened around 1330hrs near the Norton…
HARARE – Media practitioners have applauded the Constitutional Court for ruling that criminal defamation is not a justifiable law in Zimbabwe and must be struck off the statutes. The Constitutional Court last week scrapped criminal libel which critics say has been employed to restrict the freedom of the press. The full bench of the Constitutional…
