HARARE – Jailed former Air Zimbabwe legal secretary Grace Pfumbidzayi’s bail application has been vigorously opposed by the State on the grounds that she was a flight risk. Pfumbidzayi was sentenced to an effective seven years in jail together with former Air Zimbabwe chief executive Peter Chikumba. They were jailed by regional magistrate Fadzai Mthombeni….
HARARE – Gerald Phiri scored direct from the corner kick as CAPS United rallied from behind to force a draw against plucky ZPC Kariba here yesterday. The Green Machine put behind their in-house problems with a performance worth winning any match but poor finishing from their strikers ensured a share of the spoils. CAPS United…
RUSAPE – Nqobizita Masuku’s header handed Highlanders a win over Dongo Sawmills in a drub Castle Lager Premiership match here yesterday to ease pressure on coach Bongani Mafu. The Bulawayo giants had draw to Buffaloes and lost to Chapungu in their last two matches and many of the club’s fans had been calling for Mafu’s…
HARARE – First Lady Grace Mugabe has moved to dump Zanu PF’s beleaguered “Gang of Four” and is more and more aligning herself with Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa after apparently realising that she was being used by the allegedly manipulative group, the Daily News has learnt. The sobriquet Gang of Four was first coined by…
BULAWAYO – Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko — who has previously insulted vendors and people living with disabilities — has made a passionate appeal to locals for their vote in the forthcoming by-elections. Mphoko was in Bulawayo at the weekend to drum up support for Zanu PF ahead of the parliamentary by-elections slated for June 10…
HARARE – Zimbabwe Democracy Institute (ZDI) director Pedzisai Ruhanya speaks to Senior Assistant Editor Guthrie Munyuki about current Zanu PF squabbles and wobbly opposition politics. Below are excerpts of the interview. Q: Zimbabwe is facing myriad problems, both socio-economic and political, which are blamed on Zanu PF and President Robert Mugabe. Does the current opposition…
HARARE – The Sadc Council of Ministers extraordinary summit focusing on industrialisation opened in Harare today. It will consider progress made by the subregion on the industrialisation strategy and roadmap. Stergomena Lawrence Tax, the Sadc executive secretary, said the strategy will guide the entire region in its quest for socio-economic transformation through industrialisation. She said…
KATHMANDU – At least 3,617 people are now known to have died in a massive earthquake which hit Nepal on Saturday, police say. More than 6,500 people have been injured, according to the National Emergency Operation Centre. Dozens of people are also reported to have been killed in neighbouring China and India. More than 200…
HARARE – Zimbabwean-born prop Tendai Mtawarira says his dream while growing up was to be an account and he never thought he would be a rugby international with the Springboks. The 29-year-old was in Zimbabwe for a week long rest from Super Rugby action with the Cell C Sharks and revealed a lot of things…
HARARE – After failing to beat Dynamos in his last two years as CAPS United coach, Taurai Mangwiro rued yesterday as a missed opportunity to turn a new leaf on his coaching record against the Harare giants. The Glamour Boys played second fiddle to Mangwiro’s enterprising Harare City side that dominated large parts of the…
