HARARE – Zimbabwe cricket team’s historic win over Australia in the just-ended tri-series was followed with yet another momentous occasion when the tourists visited Glen View to conduct a mini-coaching clinic. The Baggy Greens media manager Matt Cenin together with four cricketers, all-rounders Mitchell Marsh and James Faulkner as well as seamers, Ben Cutting and…
HARARE – Zimbabwe Davis Cup team will be hoping to continue with their fine start when they face Nigeria in the 2014 Davis Cup Euro/Africa Zone Group III match at Smash Tennis Academy in Cairo, Egypt today. The Zimbabwe team begin their quest to qualify for 2015 Davis Cup Euro/Africa Zone Group II on a…
HARARE – Tennis Zimbabwe (TZ) is impressed by the turnout at the just-ended Astra Paints Tennis Centre Junior Championship held at Highlands Sports Club over the weekend. The tournament which is one of the biggest development tournaments on the local tennis calendar attracted players from as far as Victoria Falls this year. TZ administrator, Cliff…
NEW YORK – Croatia’s Marin Cilic fulfilled the promise of his stellar junior career with a maiden Grand Slam title at the US Open, silencing self-doubts he admits made him wonder if his day would ever come. The 25-year-old Croatian, born in Medjugorje in Bosnia-Hercegovina near the border with Croatia, took up tennis at the…
JOHANNESBURG – South Africa are confident of ending a depressing record against Nigeria when they clash tonight in a 2015 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier. The Cape Town showdown is a highlight of the 14-fixture matchday 2 schedule along with Cameroon-Ivory Coast in Yaoundé and Egypt-Tunisia in Cairo. There were doubts whether the Nigeria game…
HARARE – AfrAsia Bank Limited (AfrAsia) is limiting depositors’ withdrawals due to solvency challenges. The bank, limiting withdrawals to between $50 and $200 depending on the day, said it was suffering the effects of the prevailing acute liquidity crisis. “…liquidity constraints in the local economy have affected our normal operations,” spokesperson Sekai Chitemerere told Business…
HARARE – Justice minister Emmerson Mnangagwa’s announcement that the Zanu PF presidium will be determined by a secret ballot has been viewed as a ploy to scuttle Vice President Joice Mujuru at the December elective congress. While the “one-man one-vote” system was at the centre of President Robert Mugabe’s bitter complaints after it had marred…
HARARE – State media, including the beleaguered Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) and Zimpapers titles such as The Herald and the Sunday Mail, are reeling from worsening infighting within Zanu PF. Staff members at the media houses confirmed to the Daily News yesterday that they were increasingly being sucked into the deadly factional fights, with negative…
HARARE – A man, who was condemned to death by hanging after being convicted for murder, is back in court facing a fresh murder charge. Vusumuzi Moyo yesterday appeared before High Court Judge Esther Muremba accused of strangling Dumisani Sithole. Prosecutor Austin Muzivi yesterday presented a further murder charge allegedly committed in August 2009. Muzivi…
HARARE – The High Court has struck off the roll a matter in which former advisor to the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor Munyaradzi Kereke is suing his ex-boss Gideon Gono for over $2 million in damages. Kereke claims he lost the money after Gono “fraudulently and unlawfully withdrew” $100 000 from his Renaissance…
