HARARE – You can run for days and bench press and deadlift and biceps curl all you want, over and over and over again, but it doesn’t guarantee you functional fitness. Common daily living activities like carrying a box upstairs, changing a tyre, pushing your car out the mud, climbing a tree with your son…
PRETORIA – Lawyers for jailed South African Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius have launched a legal bid to prevent prosecutors from appealing against his acquittal on murder charges. Judge Thokozile Masipa ruled in December that prosecutors could appeal against the acquittal. She had sentenced Pistorius to five years in prison for the lesser charge of culpable…
CANBERRA – West Indies master blaster Chris Gayle silenced his critics with the highest ever score at a cricket World Cup, bludgeoning his way to 215 and a record 16 sixes before he was finally caught on the final ball of the innings yesterday. It ended the laid-back West Indian’s century drought, which stretched back…
MUTARE – Mutare music promoter Esau Mupfumi has pressed fraud charges against controversial Zimdancehall star Soul Jah Love who yet again failed to perform as scheduled at The Platinum on Saturday. Soul Jah Love had agreed to hold the show — dubbed “Chibaba baba Apology Show” to compensate for failing to turn up for another…
HARARE – Award-winning musician Jah Prayzah says his current recording company Diamond Studios will not handle his forthcoming 10-track album Jerusarema set to be launched in May at the Harare International Conference Centre (HICC). The Uzumba-born musician has entered into a new record deal with Jive Zimbabwe after dumping Diamond Studios which recorded and distributed…
HARARE – LIively Zimdancehall artiste Dadza D will share the stage with Jamaican reggae star Luciano in South Africa on April 3 in Cape Town. At the same high profile gig, the Zimbabwean artiste, who is also known by the moniker Prince of Fire, will also play alongside the curiously-named South African roots reggae artiste…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) yesterday lifted Meikles Limited (Meikles)’s suspension from trading on the local bourse after baulking at the conglomerate’s High Court challenge. In its papers, the diversified group had sought to challenge its suspension on account of section four of the Administrative Justice Act (AJA) and that it was not…
HARARE – Zimbabwe is seeking the African Development Bank (AfDB)’s technical assistance to manage and clear its multi-billion dollar debt. The country, which owes the AfDB $566 million, is saddled by debts — domestic and foreign — of nearly $10 billion. Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa told the press on Monday that Harare had engaged the…
LONDON – Not so long ago, President Robert Mugabe thumped a table in apparent fury at reports of festering corruption. But events in Zanu PF show that the party is not serious about corruption at all. If anything, corruption seems to be a benefit of patronage. There is little surprise to notice the shameful level…
MASVINGO – As Zanu PF’s ugly factional and succession wars continue to escalate, a fuming Kudakwashe Bhasikiti (pictured) — the recently fired Masvingo Provincial Affairs minister — has pointedly labelled Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa a shameless liar. In an exclusive interview with the Daily News yesterday, Bhasikiti — who has been publicly harangued by President…
