HARARE – Rising motocross rider Emmanuel Bako won his third successive race in South Africa after finishing first in the WOMZA Sunco Super Series National in Johannesburg over the weekend. The win underlined the Zimbabweans’ growing status as one of the hottest emerging riders on the local scene. The Heritage Primary School, Grade Three student,…
HARARE – Three local junior tennis players bowed out in the first round of the ongoing Zimbabwe F1 Futures tournament which started here yesterday. Mbonisi Ndimande, Brandon Levendale and Muzingaye Sibanda are the three locals, who all bowed out of the first round. Ndimande went down to Uganda’s Duncan Mugabe 6-2, 6-3 while Levenndale suffered…
HARARE – St George’s College rugby coach Brendan Brider was left a proud man after watching his side become the first team in the 2015 schools rugby season to stop the Falcon College rugby juggernaut. The Saints fought fiercely and even dominated play in large periods of the encounter that ended 19-19 on Saturday at…
HARARE – Zifa Central Region Division One League pacesetters ZPC Munyati maintained their lead at the summit after beating ZRP Beitbridge 3-2 over the weekend. ZPC now top the log standings with 21 points, one ahead of second-placed Chrome Stars. The Zimbabwe Power Company started their campaign this season on a positive note, winning six…
HARARE – Local bodybuilder Simbarashe Mhaka has only today to raise $2 500 or else his dream to compete at the World National Amateur Bodybuilders Association contest in France on June 27. The 27-year-old won a ticket to compete at the event after winning the Pretoria Classic in South Africa last month. Mhaka needs the…
HARARE – Chimurenga music legend Thomas Mapfumo (70) was born Michael Munhumumwe and only started using his current name at the age of nine, a just-released biography of the iconic artiste written by Banning Eyre claims. The chimurenga music legend was born to Janet Chinhamo and Tapfumaneyi Mupariwa on July 2 1945 but was raised…
HARARE – Zimbabwe Music Rights Association (Zimura) has written off royalties that the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (Zbc) should have paid to musicians between 2011 and 2014. Zimura Director Polisile Ncube told the Daily News that the writing off the debt was a result of the consultations between the two parties that also involved the information,…
HARARE – Zimbabwean author, life coach and motivational speaker Rabison Shumba will today officially open the Bergen Afro-Arts Festival (BAAF) that will run in the west-coast Norwegian city until Saturday. Shumba, who is the keynote speaker, will present a paper on the Day of the African Child, commemorated annually on the continent. This year’s celebrations…
HARARE – Former Presidential Affairs minister Didymus Mutasa says the way President Robert Mugabe had failed to recognise the late Amos Midzi as a national hero showed that the ruling party had now morphed into an “undemocratic animal” that was controlled by one man — the long-ruling nonagenarian. A former minister and diplomat, Midzi, died…
HARARE – The audacious Nigerian media house, which recently humiliated President Robert Mugabe in Abuja, has had another go at him — highlighting the Gukurahundi massacres of the early 1980s, election irregularities and abductions that have taken place in Zimbabwe under his watch as showing that there is “no democracy” in the country. Announcing the…
