HARARE – Just before the dust had settled after last weekend’s match, CAPS United and Dynamos clash again this afternoon in the third instalment of the Harare derby inside four weeks. The two teams clash in the semi-final of the Zimbabwe National Army Commanders Charities Shield at Rufaro Stadium this afternoon. DeMbare and Makepekepe have…
JOHANNESBURG – I have never been a big fan of big teams. I suppose it is something in my human nature. I always enjoy going for the underdogs. When Liverpool was dominating in the late 1980s and early 1990s, I was rooting for Manchester United. I then turned against Man U in the late 90s…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s top female long distance athlete Sharon Tavengwa’s fairytale run began in an unorthodox fashion in Chirumhanzu when she pretended to be a boy for her talent to be recognised. Tavengwa’s chance to be noticed came when one of the boys making up the four by 400 metres under-12 relay team scheduled to…
HARARE – Sports minister Andrew Langa (pictured) says government will not dissolve the Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) after the Warriors’ expulsion by Fifa from the 2018 Fifa World Cup qualifiers. Zimbabwe was expelled from the qualifiers which are due to start in October after Zifa failed to pay former Warriors coach Valinhos his outstanding severance…
HARARE – Falcon College pupil Justin Kersten placed eighth at the Curro SA Juniors International played at the Durbanville Golf Club, Cape Town, South Africa to finish as Zimbabwe’s highest placed golfer. The Bulawayo Golf Club-based golfer shot rounds of 78, 69, 70 for a total one-over-par 217, seven strokes adrift of tournament winner Van…
HARARE – Zimbabwe and Liverpool legend Bruce Grobbelaar says the Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) must be dissolved. Grobelaar weighed in on the debate after the world football governing body Fifa expelled the Warriors from participating in the 2018 Russia World Cup qualifiers as punishment for failing to pay former coach Valinhos his severance package. Zifa,…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s annual inflation rate decreased by 0,12 percentage-points on the January rate of -1,28 percent to -1,40 percent in February, the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (Zimstats) said on Friday. This means that prices as measured by the all items CPI decreased by an average of 1,40 percentage-points between February 2014 and February 2015….
HARARE – Often associated with seizure of control and violence, prison riots are extreme ways in which inmates voice their grievances against prison administrators and authorities. Prisoners resort to such measures when they believe that only a defiance or disorder can get their unfair condition noticed by the public and government. Last week’s riot in…
HARARE – Do last week’s deadly riots at Chikurubi Maximum Prison, Zimbabwe’s biggest correctional services centre, signify worse things to come for the country? And, is Zimbabwe fast degenerating into a feared police State, with anarchy set to become the order of the day? These are the questions that President Robert Mugabe, who is away…
HARARE – Four years after the Daily News first broached the subject of whether President Robert Mugabe was still fit to rule, debate is raging once again about the nonagenarian’s capacity to effectively remain at the helm of the country that he has presided over with an iron fist for most of the past 35…
