HARARE – Zimabwe’s Under-19 cricket team struggled at the eight-team Cricket South Africa (CSA) Franchise Cubs Week in Stellenbosch, recording just one win from five outings. The young side recorded their only victory of the tournament when they beat the Warriors by two wickets. Kieran Geyle (4/19) and Dylan Hondo (3/23) caused the most damage…
HARARE – FC Platinum’s preparations for the African Confederation Cup were dented after their scheduled friendly match against Zambian side Power Dynamos at the weekend was called off. The platinum miners were set to host the Zambians at Mandava Stadium to fine-tune for their preliminary round tie against Kenyan side Sofapaka FC next month. Norman…
HARARE – I was thinking of something to write this week, and then decided to just pen a little feel-good piece to you readers, thanking you for your continued support and patronage in the just-ended year, and promising you better sports coverage in the New Year and beyond. As we start a brand new year,…
HARARE – Zanu PF appears rattled by this week’s unexpected move by a group of disaffected party members who are taking President Robert Mugabe head-on over his increasingly contested control of the former liberation movement, with party bigwigs and lickspittle State media going apoplectic yesterday over the challenge. Analysts told the Daily News yesterday that…
HARARE – Some local fuel dealers had as of yesterday not complied with government’s recommended fuel prices of $1,32 for petrol and $1,20 for diesel per litre, as the global oil price further slumped to $46 per barrel at close of business yesterday. This was according to a snap survey conducted by the Daily News…
HARARE – Harare City Council (HCC) has been slammed for violating the constitutional rights of Harare residents by cutting water supplies for three days without providing alternative safe water. HCC principal communications officer, Michael Chideme, announced last week that the local authority was shutting down Morton Jaffray Water Works from Friday to Sunday to allow…
HARARE – Election Resource Centre (ERC) has called for a stay of the forthcoming by-elections until the Electoral Act has been fully harmonised with the Zimbabwe Constitution. President Robert Mugabe has proclaimed in the Government Gazette — March 27 as the date for the Mount Darwin West and Chirimanzu-Zibagwe by-elections. The constituencies fell vacant following…
HARARE – MDC supporters who were brutally assaulted by Zanu PF yobs allegedly led by the notorious chairperson of the ruling party’s Harare Province youth league, Godfrey Gomwe, were yesterday granted $100 bail each by a Mbare magistrate. The pulverised MDC supporters were the ones who were arrested by police — leaving the opposition party…
HARARE – Chief Justice Godfrey Chidyausiku has asked the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) to justify why it insists on having members of the security forces working as prosecutors as opposed to employing civilians. This followed a Constitutional Court application filed by the Zimbabwe Law Officers’ Association (Ziloa) and its secretary-general Dereck Charamba, challenging the use…
GWERU – Magistrates around the country have been ordered to stop giving juvenile rape offenders corporal punishment regardless of gender as it has been abolished in the new Constitution, a top magistrate has said. Corporal punishment, commonly known as canning, is a sentence delivered on minors who lawfully cannot serve jail time. It was skewed…
