BULAWAYO – Secessionist outfit Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) has launched a tirade against breakaway MDC renewal team, advising the people in Matabeleland not to take the team seriously. The fringe secessionist party claims Tendai Biti’s renewal team is a source of confusion in the region. In pamphlets seen by the Daily News circulating here, MRP…
HARARE – Emmerson Mnangagwa, minister of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs has defended President Robert Mugabe’s call to reprimand new farmers who were leasing out their farms to evicted white farmers. Mnangagwa was answering MDC senator Lilian Timveos who questioned whether Mugabe was not acting outside the Constitution when he said no white person was…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF has unveiled a number of guidelines for participating in the impending party congress, effectively new arrivals. Persons wishing to be elected in the party’s central committee and women’s league should have no less than 15 consecutive years in the party. Emmerson Mnangagwa, the party secretary for Legal Affairs,…
HARARE – Government yesterday implemented an increase in toll gate fees by up to 100 percent after the High Court reserved ruling in a legal challenge to the hike. The new toll fees came into effect amid legal action by the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR). High Court judge Joseph Mafusire reserved ruling in…
LONDON – Lionel Messi is struggling at the World Cup because he is suffering from exhaustion, his father Jorge has claimed ahead of Argentina’s final showdown against Germany tomorrow. The Argentina playmaker, who was being hailed as potentially the star player of the tournament, has faded to become a peripheral figure in his past two…
LONDON – An emotional Neymar cried as he recalled the challenge that ended his World Cup and said he felt blessed not to have ended up in a wheelchair. Colombia’s Juan Zuniga kneed the Brazil forward in the back in the closing stages of the hosts’ 2-1 quarter-final victory, ruling him out of the tournament…
LONDON – Brazil’s sports minister, Aldo Rebelo, has acknowledged that his country’s 7-1 loss to Germany would leave a “deep scar” on the nation’s football psyche but said it could not be compared to the 1950 Maracanazo. Rebelo, who was a key driver behind a congressional inquiry into the Brazilian Football Confederation and the way…
GENEVA – The World Health Organization (WHO) is urging all sexually active gay men to take antiretroviral drugs to reduce the spread of HIV. The organisation says the move may help prevent a million new HIV infections over 10 years. Officials warn rates of HIV in this group remain high across the globe. But activists…
PRAGUE – Thousands of pictures including “naked selfies” have been extracted from factory-wiped phones by a Czech Republic-based security firm. The firm, called Avast, used publicly available forensic security tools to extract the images from second-hand phones bought on eBay. Other data extracted included emails, text messages and Google searches. Experts have warned that the…
FREETOWN – High numbers of new cases of the Ebola virus are being reported in Sierra Leone and Liberia, with 19 deaths over three days this week, the UN’s World Health Organization (WHO) says. Such figures showed that it was a race against time to control the epidemic in Sierra Leone, medical charity MSF said….
