HARARE – Chief Justice Godfrey Chidyausiku has hit back at High Court judges, claiming the fight between him and lazy judges will not end unless they improve their performance. Chidyausiku was responding to a story published in the lickspittle State-run Herald newspaper yesterday, claiming that 21 out of 24 High Court judges had blasted him…
HARARE – Former Zanu PF Mashonaland West provincial chairperson Temba Mliswa — arrested on allegations of being in illegal possession of rifles, has been freed on $200 bail. His lawyer Charles Chinyama confirmed to the Daily News yesterday that the Chinhoyi Magistrates’ Court had ordered the release of his client. Magistrate Ignatius Mugova ordered Mliswa…
LAGOS – Boko Haram militants have reportedly killed at least 70 people in an attack on the Cameroonian town of Fotokol, on the border with Nigeria. The Islamist militants attacked civilians in their homes and in the town’s mosque, local officials said, setting many buildings on fire. The attack comes a day after a regional…
TAIPEI – Rescue teams in Taiwan are continuing to search for the 12 people who remain unaccounted for after a plane crashed in a river. Thirty-one people are now known to have died when the TransAsia ATR-72 plane came down in Taipei’s Keelung River on Wednesday morning. Fifteen survivors were pulled from the wreckage, including…
HARARE – Senior Cabinet minister Patrick Chinamasa has ruled out the possibility of government sacking Zifa president Cuthbert Dube and his board following earlier proclamations to that effect by Deputy Sports Minister Tabeth Kanengoni-Malinga. Addressing Parliamentarians yesterday, Finance minister Chinamana, speaking in his capacity as Zanu-PF’s head of government business in the august House, said…
HARARE – Former Zifa vice-president Ndumiso Gumede, a former ally of the local football governing body’s embattled boss Cuthbert Dube, has urged authorities to shun confrontational approach in efforts to remove Dube from office. Gumede, who served as number two to Dube on the Zifa board between 2010 and last year when he decided against…
THE current debate about whether Cuthbert Dube must go or not baffle’s the mind. I feel I need to add my own two cents. When the current Ministry of Sport was created as a standalone ministry, most of us sports loving people celebrated as we thought finally this country would realise its potential. We thought…
LUSAKA — Zambia’s founding president, Kenneth Kaunda, has been hospitalised for an undisclosed ailment, his family said on Wednesday. Mr Kaunda, 90, was admitted to Lusaka Trust Hospital on Tuesday. His daughter Cheswa Silwizya confirmed that “the old man is in hospital” declining to reveal the nature of his hospitalisation. “He is doing well and…
HARARE – Former Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) vice-president Ndumiso Gumede, a former ally of the local football governing body’s embattled boss Cuthbert Dube, has urged authorities to shun a confrontational approach in efforts to remove Dube from office. Gumede, who served as number two to Dube on the Zifa board between 2010 and last year…
HARARE – Power training enables an athlete to apply the greatest amount of their maximal strength in the shortest period of time and this is crucial for many sports men and women who require power as a component of fitness to perform their associated sport. Most athletic activities involve far faster movements and far higher…
