HARARE – President Robert Mugabe flexed his muscles at Wednesday’s long politburo meeting in Harare, where he apparently rejected outright passionate pleas by his influential wife Grace and other senior party bigwigs for the late military chief Stephen Hurungudo to be declared a national hero. Well-placed Zanu PF sources told the Daily News yesterday that…
HARARE – The cash-strapped Zimbabwean government is bulldozing its way into “buying” Telecel Zimbabwe (Telecel) after it pushed out bids from local companies, that wanted to inject fresh capital into the mobile communications company, the Daily News has learnt. This comes after Information Communication Technology (ICT) Postal and Courier Services minister Supa Mandiwanzira told the…
HARARE – Zimbabwe faces more economic woes, including having its assets abroad seized, after cash-strapped State mining company, Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporation (ZMDC), lost the latest instalment of a long-drawn legal case, at the centre of which is compensation for a lost concession by Mauritian Mining Company Amari Holdings. This follows the International Court of…
HARARE – Firebrand democracy activist, Margaret Dongo, says war veterans and other liberation struggle stalwarts have an inexplicably pervasive fear of President Robert Mugabe, an unwelcome situation that is giving the nonagenarian free reign to misrule both Zanu PF and Zimbabwe. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday in the wake of the death of two…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe once again openly admitted at Zanu PF’s politburo meeting in Harare yesterday that his party was wracked by debilitating factional and succession wars, imploring his ambitious underlings to focus more on fixing the country’s comatose economy, which observers say is a result of his government’s misrule and ineptitude. Addressing the…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe found himself in deep water yesterday after his spokesperson said that the nonagenarian will not pronounce himself on missing activist Itai Dzamara because the case is “pre-eminently political and thus not worthy of his attention.” Opposition parties and rights groups called the remarks “crass and insensitive.” Dzamara has not been…
HARARE – Zifa insist coach Calisto Pasuwa will have to come up with two competitive teams for the senior national team and the Under-23 squad in September. The Warriors take on Guinea at the National Sports Stadium in their 2017 Africa Cup of Nations Group L qualifier during the weekend of September 3-5. That same…
HARARE – Zimbabwe is aiming to pick up the pieces from their heartbreaking opening loss when they take on Eastern Province CD here at Paul Roos Gymnasium this morning. The Old Mutual-sponsored Under-18 side is yet to taste victory at this age-grade tournament since the class of 2013 won two and lost one match in…
HARARE – Zimbabwe cricket coach Dav Whatmore says transforming the team into a formidable unit is not an easy process and he will require more time. Whatmore was speaking after Zimbabwe suffered a 3-0 ODI series defeat at the hands of a touring India second string side on Tuesday. The Sri-Lankan born Australian took over…
HARARE – A High Court judge has ordered financially-constrained Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) to pay a $90 000 debt to suspended board member Bernard Gwarada. Gwarada, who was suspended together with vice president Omega Sibanda and 12 councillors last month, through his company Led Travel and Tours (Private) Limited (Led) filed a High Court application…
