HARARE – Zimbabwe Cricket (ZC) is in advanced stages of restructuring the national side’s coaching and captaincy set-up in a move described by some insiders as racial, the Daily News can reveal. Under the proposal, coach Andy Waller will be relegated to a figurehead role of director of coaching, with his assistant Steve Mangongo taking…
HARARE – While most sport lovers have been going about their daily tasks red-eyed and bad-tempered due to lack of sleep, or their team being eliminated in the crucial round of the ongoing Fifa World Cup, I have thankfully no such trouble. Bright eyed and bushy tailed as ever, I have been rubbing my hands…
HARARE – For once in the long history of the Harare derby between Dynamos and CAPS United there could be goals in abundance, former Green Machine winger Alois Bunjira has predicted. Sunday’s Harare derby at the National Sports Stadium brings together two great rivals face-to-face in a match which might go a long way in…
HARARE – Zimbabawe’s leading 16-year-old golfer Justin Kersten hopes to leave an indelible mark at the Junior Open Championship that tees off on Monday at West Lancashire Golf Club in England. The tournament runs concurrently with British Open Championship, golf’s third major tournament, which will be taking place at the Royal Liverpool Golf Club, Hoylake…
HARARE – Top junior tennis players from across the world are set to grace three International Tennis Federation (ITF) junior tennis tournaments from July 28 to August 15 in Harare. Some of the top players expected to participate in the boy’s category include Kenya’s top player Ismael Changawa Ruwa Mzai, who is ranked 146 on…
LONDON – Argentina’s Sergio Romero saved two penalties in a 4-2 shootout win over the Netherlands to seal their first World Cup final place in 24 years after the first ever goalless semifinal at the end of extra time on Wednesday. Romero plunged low to his left to save the first penalty kick from defender…
BERLIN – In my neighbourhood, they let off fireworks after the first, second and third goals. But after Toni Kroos sidefooted in the fourth, there was only silence. People started to shake their heads in disbelief rather than pump their fists into the humid summer air: “Was that another goal, or just the replay?” the…
MOSCOW – US whistleblower Edward Snowden has officially asked to extend his stay in Russia after his visa expires, his lawyer has told the BBC. Anatoly Kucherena confirmed that paperwork has been submitted to Russia’s Federal Migration Service. The current document granting him temporary asylum expires on 31 July. Mr Snowden fled the US in…
ABUJA – More than 60 women and girls are reported to have escaped from the Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram, security sources say. They were among 68 abducted last month near the town of Damboa in north-eastern Borno state. But some women who made it home said they feared other escapees had been recaptured, villagers…
HARARE – Revelations that have emerged out of parliamentary committee probes regarding operations of parastatals make it indispensable for government to introspect and rethink about the national value derived from these quasi-governmental institutions. Invariably, parastatals have become an albatross round government’s neck and a serious drain on national coffers as the majority rely on government…
