HARARE – Costa Nhamoinesu became the first Warriors foreign-based player to join camp ahead of the weekend’s 2017 Afcon qualifier against Guinea on Sunday. Players based in South Africa were due to arrive late last night aboard an Air Zimbabwe flight, while Knowledge Musona and Matthew Rusike are now expected to join the rest of…
HARARE – Zimbabwe top rowing athletes Micheen Thornycroft and Peter Percill-Gilpin are gunning for Olympic Games qualification at the World Championships in Aiguebelette, France. Thornycroft is set to compete in the women’s single sculls event while Gilpin will compete in the men’s single sculls category both with a view of booking places among the top…
HARARE – Nick Hales, the former British American Tobacco (BAT) Nigeria managing director, has been appointed Savanna Tobacco (Savanna)’s global chief executive, as the group seeks to expand its African footprint. The appointment, along with Douglas Mamvura’s as chief marketing officer, is part of efforts to create or make the company a Zimbabwean multi-national, chairman…
HARARE – Billionaire and Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, says Zimbabwe must open up to foreign investment by relaxing its stringent visa conditions and improve on the ease of doing business. Dangote — with a net worth of $17,2 billion according to Forbes Magazine — told Tourism minister Walter Mzembi on Monday that his visit…
HARARE – Zimbabwe has commissioned a new petroleum sector pricing study aimed at coming up with mechanisms to lower fuel prices in the country, a senior government official has said. The Energy ministry permanent secretary, Patterson Mbiriri, yesterday told delegates at a Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera) workshop that the existing fuel cost build-up structure…
HARARE – Africa’s richest man Aliko Dangote’s choice of investing in Zimbabwe is a huge statement which should be encouraging to all progressive forces in the country. Dangote is valued at $17,2 billion by the influential Forbes Magazine and has many interests across Africa where his conglomerate is involved in big projects. The Nigerian mogul…
HARARE – Detractors of President Robert Mugabe’s increasingly influential wife, Grace — who is openly flaunting her higher ambitions and political power more and more — say she has little chance of ever leading Zimbabwe and winning free and fair elections in the country. These sentiments come in the wake of the latest boast by…
HARARE – Ousted Zanu PF Harare youth league chairperson Godwin Gomwe was yesterday convicted on two counts of insulting fellow party members using grossly-offensive speech. Presiding magistrate Takunda Mutetwa found Gomwe guilty of criminal insult and contravening section 88 (c) of the Post and Telecommunications Act. His sentence will be read out in court today….
HARARE – The minister of State for Mashonaland Central, Martin Dinha, could be dragged to court today over allegations of abuse of office as the bloodletting in Zanu PF reaches fever-pitch. There were conflicting reports yesterday night with police sources telling the Daily News that the minister — who regularly and shamelessly bootlicks the First…
HARARE – The Warriors’ preparations for their weekend’s 2017 Afcon qualifier against Guinea yesterday got off to a disastrous start after Zifa failed to provide air tickets for all foreign-based players called for the tie, the Daily News has learnt. The Warriors take on the Syli Nationale on Sunday at Rufaro Stadium in their second…
