HARARE – Domestic franchise cricket champions Mountaineers are optimistic that they will turn the tables around in defence of the two titles they won last season. The Manicaland side won both the domestic premier first class competition, Logan Cup and the Pro 50 championships last season under the stewardship of former coach Gary Brent. The…
MELBOURNE – Virat Kohli blasted a brilliant 169 to help India claw back into the third Test yesterday and was still firing missiles at the Australian team well after the close of play on day three. The flamboyant batsman has not taken a backward step on the tour, compiling three defiant centuries and fighting fire…
LONDON – Nobody saw this stalemate coming. Manchester United and Tottenham have been erratic in defence, to say the least, and capable of better things going forward yet the 0-0 was not rooted in either of them bolting the door at the back. United were left to lament their profligacy in front of goal, together…
SWANSEA – Wilfried Bony is ready to show Liverpool what they’re missing as he vows to end his stunning year as he started it …with Premier League goals. No-one has been able to touch the Swansea City striker when it’s come to finding the net over the past 12 months, the indomitable Ivorian making sure…
JARKATA – An AirAsia Indonesia airliner flying from Indonesia to Singapore with 162 people on board has lost contact with air traffic control. Flight QZ8501 went missing at around 06:20 local time (23:20 GMT). The plane, an Airbus A320-200, disappeared midway into the flight of more than two hours and no distress call was issued….
HARARE – Orchestra Mberikwazvo manager William Tsandukwa says attempts by Noel Nyazanda, Obert Gomba and Congolese Jonasi Kasamba to return to sungura star Alick Macheso’s backing group are destined to fail. Tsandukwa’s remarks fly in the face of recent reports that the three, who unceremoniously quit Orchestra Mberikwazvo last year, are on the verge of…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s appointment of vice presidents, Emmerson Mnangagwa and Phelekezela Mphoko has sent shivers down the spines of most people in Zimbabwe especially those from the Midlands and Matabeleland regions who witnessed their loved ones being brutally slaughtered by the ruthless 5th Brigade under the guise of hunting down so-called dissidents. According…
HARARE – Dav Whatmore is scheduled to arrive in Harare this morning to begin his tenure as the new Zimbabwe cricket coach just six weeks before the start of the World Cup. The former Australia Test player takes over from Stephen Mangongo, who was dismissed two weeks ago following a disastrous tour to Bangladesh. Zimbabwe…
HARARE – The Gukurahundi mass murders of the early 1980s in Matabeleland and the Midlands continue to haunt President Robert Mugabe and Zanu PF, with human rights activists and leading political figures raising fresh questions yesterday about whether the killings will ever be properly investigated and dealt with by the government. The much-condemned killings are…
HARARE – Former Zanu PF secretary for administration Didymus Mutasa, has dismissed claims that he is in the country saying the State media was offside. Mutasa told the Daily News on Sunday in a telephone interview yesterday that he was still in India where his wife is being treated for an undisclosed illness. “I don’t…
