HARARE – When Afghanistan arrived in the country, two questions were asked by all cricket lovers. The first question was, how much preparation would we really get by playing a team such as Afghanistan before meeting both South Africa and Australia? The second question was. How seriously would Zimbabwe take these matches, especially if they…
HARARE – 24 hours earlier, he had met a football supporters’ body aligned to Zifa president Cuthbert Dube and announced at the meeting that he would not fire the association’s board following the calamitous failure to advance past the preliminary stage of African Nations Cup qualifiers. Not that sacking Zifa, in so doing attracting the…
HARARE – News that former Zimbabwean international and Kaizer Chiefs defender Zhaimu “Jimmy” Jambo has retired from football came as a surprise to many people yesterday. At the relatively young age of 26, Jambo decided to call it a day after failing to recover from a horrific knee injury he suffered in October 2012 during…
HARARE – Zimbabwe Cricket (ZC) player earnings for the forthcoming 2014-15 season can be revealed today by the Daily News, with three players – captain Brendan Taylor, his deputy Hamilton Masakadza and ex-skipper Prosper Utseya – the highest earners on $ 6 000 salaries. We can disclose that the cricketers have reclaimed their position as…
HARARE – Hardly a week goes by without incidents of farm seizures making headlines. Sadly, most of the headlines are not about white Zimbabweans having their farms seized, but of black Zimbabweans being both the perpetrators and the victims. The latest twist in Zimbabwe’s 14-year-old land occupation saga is nauseating. It must be cause for…
HARARE – Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa has urged indigenous banks to comply with the central bank’s minimum capital requirements or face downgrading to micro finance institutions. “If you say that you have found yourself in the top league and you clearly don’t qualify, please go back to the league you qualify before we disqualify you,”…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority(Zimra) collected $45 million in mining royalties arrears in the half year to June 2014 as the tax collector intensifies efforts to boost dwindling earnings. Gershem Pasi, Zimra commissioner-general, said during the period under review, total royalties collected amounted to $112,6 million, 45 percent above target, adding that the arrears…
HARARE – AIM-listed African Consolidated Resources (ACR) says it remains in negotiations with investors concerning $18 million funding. The miner intends to spend the cash on acquiring Falcon Gold Zimbabwe (Falgold)’s Dalny Mine and to fast track production at its Pickstone Peerless Gold project in Zimbabwe. It plans to buy Dalny for $8 million. The…
HARARE – Colourful businessman Phillip Chiyangwa says he is a serial guest of honour at album and DVD launches because “he is Zimbabwe’s biggest philanthropist.” Chiyangwa made the claim after being invited yet again by Vabvuwi Masimba Edenga Gospel Group to grace their album and DVD launch on Saturday at Monomotapa Crowne Plaza Hotel. “They…
MUTARE – All is set for the Manicaland Show of the Arts (Manisa) annual exhibition and awards ceremony that will take place at the National Art Gallery (Nag) in Mutare at the weekend. The two-day annual event starts on Friday evening with an exhibition that will be officially opened by a representative of the Culture…
