HARARE – Property belonging to the Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) will go under the hammer at a public auction this week as former employee Nicollete Dhlamini-Moyo seeks to recover outstanding dues. The property will be auctioned at KM Auctions in Graniteside on Wednesday as instructed by the Deputy Sheriff of Harare. According to a notice…
HARARE – Canada cricket coach Mukesh Narula believes Zimbabwe A will be pushed to the limit by his team when the two sides face off in four fifty-over matches at Harare Sports Club. The matches begin tomorrow but not much play is forecasted to take place, with Zimbabwe’s weather department issuing a flood alert and…
HARARE – Zimbabwe national cricket team selectors face an anxious wait before naming their final World Cup 15-member squad, set to be announced tomorrow. The transition from the era of sacked coach Stephen Mangongo to Australian Dav Whatmore has contributed to the indecisiveness, with reports suggesting that one of Whatmore’s conditions for accepting the Zimbabwe…
NAIROBI – A Kenyan student has been sentenced to a year in jail for insulting President Uhuru Kenyatta on social media. Alan Wadi Okengo, 25, alias lieutenant Wadi, must also pay a fine of $2,200 (£1,400), or serve a second year. He was also convicted of hate speech, after saying members of the president’s Kikuyu…
SEOUL – North Korea has described new sanctions imposed in response to a major cyber-attack against Sony Pictures as part of groundless and hostile US policy. The US placed sanctions on three North Korean organisations and 10 individuals, after the FBI blamed Pyongyang for the cyber-attack. North Korea has denied involvement but has praised the…
HARARE – State media columnist Nathaniel Manheru — widely understood to be President Robert Mugabe’s spokesperson George Charamba — has ignited a fresh storm over Gukurahundi, claiming controversially that some politicians were using the massacres of the early 1980s in a desperate quest to seek political relevance. In his latest offering in the Saturday edition…
HARARE – Controversial but hugely popular Malawian prophet, Austin Liabunya, has once again “prophesied” the supposed pending demise of President Robert Mugabe. According to the online Malawi publication, the Maravi Post, Liabunya once again predicted at a New Year’s day service that Mugabe would pass away this year. This is not the first time that…
HARARE – In a week’s time, the Africa Cup of Nations finals begin in Equatorial Guinea, and it has become the norm that Zimbabwe will not be part of that jamboree once again. What a sad reminder it will be, when the tournament kicks off on January 17, of the dire state of the game…
HARARE – Controversial businessman-cum-musician Energy Mutodi says landing position one on the National FM Top 50 songs of the year has encouraged him to urgently push for a new album. Mutodi’s winning song Runyararo is about the factionalism that has rocked the ruling Zanu PF. In the song, he urges the party’s president to address…
MUTARE – Husky-voiced George “Jiggaz” Tanjani says it is a sign of weakness for an established dancehall artiste to approach a fellow musician for collaboration. Jiggaz, father to dancehall protégé Spiderman, told the Daily News on Sunday that it is generally regarded as a taboo in real dancehall for an established artiste to place himself…
