HARARE – A home soil tournament victory proved a bridge too far to cross for Benjamin Lock who fought fiercely but bowed out at the semi-final stage of the Old Mutual Zimbabwe F1 Futures tournament at Harare Sports Club. Lock’s streak came to an end with a 5-7, 3-6 straight sets loss to Evan King…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s junior golfers yesterday ensured they return home with their pride intact after digging deep to finish a respectable 12th at the TOYOTA Junior Golf World Cup 2015 in Toyota City, Japan. Zimbabwe – stuck in 15th place for the entirety of the tournament – shot a final round 212 (-1) to jump…
JOHANNESBURG – I was a guest of some corporate last week at Moses Mabhida Stadium in Durban when a host of media contingent extended their hands to congratulate me. For a moment I was stunned at what all this meant because I couldn’t make head or tail of all the hullaballoo. “Well done your team…
HARARE – Children’s rights activists and women’s organisations yesterday called for the immediate firing or resignation of Prosecutor General Johannes Tomana over his controversial views on child marriages. Tomana has said, rather ill-advisedly, that girls as young as 12 must be listened to by the courts if they wished to start families with older men…
GWERU – Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday scoffed at sentiments made by Prosecutor General Johannes Tomana that 12-year-old girls can have sex and get married, saying children needed to mature first before entering into relationships. In an apparent attack on Tomana’s sentiments, Mnangagwa who was speaking during the official opening of the Global Action week…
HARARE – The High Court has ruled that the police is answerable to Cynthia Manjoro’s unlawful arrest and assault over claims that she participated in the murder of a Glen View police officer in 2011. Manjoro has since filed for damages in an application where she cited Home Affairs minister Kembo Mohadi, commissioner-general of police…
MUTARE – Dangamvura-Chikanga constituency by-election losing independent candidate Kuziwa Maundike has mocked the warring faction riddled Zanu PF as “finished” following its exhibition of fear even of “individuals” in the just-ended polls. Maundike who polled 707 votes ahead of NCA’s Ruramai Musiiwa during the June 10, by-election which was won by Esau Mupfumi who polled…
HARARE – World Health Organisation (WHO) has challenged the Zimbabwean government to focus on cancer prevention as the disease wreaks havoc in communities. David Okello, WHO’s country representative, said the situation was getting out of control and demanded more efforts towards averting new cases. “Cancers are becoming a major public health problem in Africa. If…
HARARE – As the deadline for vendors — June 26 — fast approaches, the Daily News Assistant Editor Maxwell Sibanda spoke to Davison Gomo, a development, trade and business consultant and an international lawyer on a wide range of issues surrounding the debate on vending. In recent times, the local media has been awash with…
VICTORIA FALLS – Government must privatise the Grain Marketing Board (GMB) to ensure transparency and benefit farmers, Zambia’s former Agriculture minister said. Chance Kabaghe, the former Zambian minister, told delegates at the Buy Zimbabwe: 5th Buy Local conference that as long as government controlled the Grain Marketing Board (GMB), farmers were always going to be…
