HARARE – An ex-cop and two serving police officers reportedly connived and stole 33 000 rounds of ammunition from Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) National Armoury. They allegedly delivered them to Chinese national Wencai Huo, a magistrate heard yesterday. Huo was last week granted $2 000 and ordered to deposit $100 000 surety over charges of…
HARARE – Edmund Kudzayi, the Sunday Mail editor and his brother Phillip, have been further remanded to September 1 after briefly appearing in court yesterday. Police arrested the editor of the Sunday Mail last month after raiding his office at Herald House in the capital, Harare. His brother subsequently surrendered himself to the police. Both…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s ruling Zanu PF has said it is too early to judge its performance in government. Rugare Gumbo told the Daily News yesterday that it was unfair to allege that Zanu PF has failed to run the economy. Exactly a year after the 2013 harmonised elections which were controversially won by…
HARARE – Bankers Association of Zimbabwe (Baz) has warned that Zimbabwe will soon run out of money to sustain imports. Joseph Mverecha, Agribank divisional director, speaking on behalf of Baz president Sam Malaba at the Gweru Agricultural Show business conference last week, said Zimbabwe’s depressed economic performance was ominous. “The trade deficit that we are…
HARARE – Fugitive Madzibaba Ishamea Mufani, the Johanne Masowe weChishanu leader has escaped to Rustenberg, South Africa. Officials from his church said Mufani arrived safely in Rustenberg, a city situated at the foot of the Magaliesberg mountain range in the North West Province, . He and his family were assisted by church members to escape…
HARARE – An Australian parliamentary delegation, led by chief opposition whip for the Liberal Party Warren Entsch (MP), is currently visiting Zimbabwe. It comprises senators and members of both houses of the Australian Parliament, and from all major parties. The delegation comprises Entsch, Andrew Southcott (MP) and Kate Southcott, Senator Sue Lines, Senator Penny Wright,…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) holds an extra-ordinary board meeting tomorrow to discuss issues surrounding the missing $700 000 from the published accounts of 2011, 2012 and 2013. At the same meeting, the association will also tackle the fate of all national team coaches including that of Warriors gaffer Ian Gorowa. In recent…
HARARE – The successful progression of four Southern African region teams into the group stages of 2015 African Nations Cup qualifiers – three of those teams relatively lightweights of the game on the continent – has put the sorry state of our game back into the spotlight again. Zimbabwe plunged to their lowest ebb in…
HARARE – Zimbabwe have recalled batsman Mark Vermuelen for the upcoming tour by South Africa and Australia, six years after the fiery 35-year-old was cleared of two arson attacks by a local court in 2008. Vermeulen had admitted setting fire on the Zimbabwe Cricket Academy pavilion at Highlands Country Club and part of the ZC…
HARARE – Golfer Brendon de Jonge, finished tied for 37th place at the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational at Firestone Country Club in Akron, Ohio. The Zimbabwean golfer carded a 69 on Sunday finish at even-par 280 for the tournament that was won by the red-hot Irishman Rory McIlroy. De Jonge, who was tied on even par by…
