CASIGURAN – Homes have been flattened, power lines toppled, and thousands of people have fled their homes as Typhoon Koppu swept into the northern Philippines. The huge, slow-moving typhoon made landfall near the town of Casiguran on the island of Luzon on Sunday morning. Koppu brought winds of close to 200km/h (124mph) and whipped up…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s public defence of his controversial wife Grace’s relentless assault on Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s supporters suggests that the nonagenarian is not against the idea of the First Lady succeeding him, analysts say. Speaking to the Daily News on Sunday yesterday, the analysts also said Mugabe’s failure to reign in the…
HARARE – War Veterans have taken exception to controversial First Lady Grace Mugabe’s recent pronouncements on the liberation struggle, saying she is oblivious to the fact that she is enjoying the benefits of being President Robert Mugabe’s wife because of brave heroes who fought for the country’s freedom. Responding to Grace’s statement during her rally…
HARARE – Zanu PF’s escalating factional and succession wars, that have lately seen supporters of First Lady Grace Mugabe and those of Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa savaging each other in public fora, could soon play out in the courts. In the latest chapter of this seemingly unstoppable bloodletting, Gokwe-Nembudziya legislator Justice Mayor Wadyajena — said…
HARARE – He secured re-election in an election marred by fraud but that has not stopped Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe from being awarded China’s version of the Nobel Peace Prize. Hailing the aging revolutionary icon’s continued work in actively promoting “African peace”, the African Union chairman was selected to win the Confucius Peace Prize. Mugabe…
HARARE – After my last instalment in the Daily News, some dubious news sources, some fugitives from the law in South Africa whom Interpol have neglected to apprehend, were all over the place unintelligently spreading rumours about alleged payments that the Daily News made into a non-existent CBZ account which they claim is in my…
HARARE – Now that Cuthbert Dube and his entire board are no longer at the helm of local football, we expect better from the Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa). But it looks like with Zifa CEO Jonathan Mashingaidze running the show until new elections on December 5, local football is still in the woods. On Wednesday,…
HARARE – American music legend Jennifer Rush’s maiden performance in Zimbabwe at the Borrowdale Racecourse in Harare on October 23 has been cancelled. Minky Walters, the representative of the show organisers — Sound Event Management — said the music star had been forced to cancel the concert to enable her to fly back to the…
HARARE – Rising afro-fusion star Victor Kunonga says producing the upcoming joint album by African musicians Hugh “Bra Hugh” Masekela and Oliver Mtukudzi “will be the stuff of dreams.” Kunonga, who is hogging the limelight with his latest 12-track album called Kwedu, will produce the yet-to-be-named collaboration by the two music greats set to be…
HARARE – Zimbabwe will host some of Africa’s top rising golfers in 2017 after they were awarded the privilege of hosting the Africa Amateur Golf Team Championship (AAGTC) and All Africa Junior Golf Challenge in Kenya on Tuesday. The AAGTC ended in the East African country yesterday having drawn teams from Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Tanzania,…
