JOHANNESBURG – Zimbabwean striker Kuda Musharu has arrived at Mpumalanga Black Aces for a week-long trial in hopes of joining the club next season. Musharu topped the Premiership scoring charts in Zimbabwe this past campaign, sharing the golden boot with Charles Sibanda of Highlanders on 12 league goals. Musharu had 18 goals in all competitions…
HARARE – The World Health Organization (WHO) defined health in its constitution of 1948 as “a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity”. Fitness is therefore the ability to meet the demands of a physical task. Basic fitness can be classified in four main components:…
CHICAGO – A US man was sentenced to 15 months in prison on Tuesday for illegal lobbying on behalf of Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe and others to try to lift economic sanctions against the African nation. Gregory Turner met many times in Africa with Zimbabwean government officials, including Mugabe and Gideon Gono, governor of the…
HARARE – Telecel Zimbabwe (Private) Limited (Telecel)’s operations are hanging in the balance as the country’s mobile regulator has threatened to withdraw its licence over a number of licencing condition violations. This comes as the Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (Potraz) had in August 2013 partially agreed to renew the company’s licence on condition that…
HARARE – Zimbabwean police on Tuesday identified nine more passengers who perished in a fatal road accident involving Zupco and Pioneer buses along the Harare-Nyamapanda road on Sunday. The nine were identified as Joice Masanga, a 74-year-old female of number 5225 Unit ‘E’, Seke in Chitungwiza,;, Monica Mapona, a female (34) of ZRP Tomlinson Depot…
HARARE – Yesterday marked about thirty-six days since President Robert Mugabe took leave and went on his controversial Far East holiday, amid a rising chorus of criticism of the nonagenarian’s continued absence. Although unconfirmed reports suggested at the weekend that Mugabe would finally be back in the country today or tomorrow, what has upset many…
HARARE – A number of lawyers, who have reportedly refused to represent a quest by liberation war pioneers and veterans to sue Zanu PF over its damp squib and “unconstitutional” congress last year, say they are actually ready to take up the case. This comes as the State media has relentlessly sought to vilify former…
HARARE – As Zanu PF’s brutal factional and succession wars continue unabated, amid growing suggestions that President Robert Mugabe’s party could split down the middle, disaffected senior members now taking the nonagenarian head-on say they will neither leave nor be forced out of the former liberation movement by anyone. In an interview with the Daily…
HARARE – Chief Justice Godfrey Chidyausiku yesterday ordered the prosecutor-general (PG) Johannes Tomana to immediately comply with a Constitutional Court order allowing Telecel Zimbabwe (Private) Limited (Telecel) to institute a private prosecution against ex-chairperson Jane Mutasa. Mutasa is jointly charged with her former PA Caroline Gwinyai, Telecel’s regional sales manager Charles Mapurisa and commercial director…
BULAWAYO – Police in Bulawayo yesterday arrested a man who callously strangled his father with a copper wire before gouging out his eyes in a bizarre incident that has left the whole neighbourhood shell-shocked. The suspect, Trust Moyo of Pumula North suburb, reportedly took his father, Mboland’s life after a brawl. According to neighbours, the…
