BULAWAYO – President Robert Mugabe has been advised to apologise for the Gukurahundi massacres of the early 1980s that left an estimated 20 000 people dead mainly in Matabeleland and the Midlands. Speaking in an interview with the Daily News on Sunday at the weekend, respected politician and former education minister in the government of…
CHIMANIMANI – Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (ZimParks) has shot down tourists’ and locals’ claims that Chimanimani Eland Sanctuary’s elands may have been completely wiped out by poachers, insisting that the animals are still being “frequently sighted”. A number of recent visitors to the park had complained to the Daily News on Sunday that…
HARARE – Zimbabwe have made a slight and almost insignificant move according to the latest edition of the Fifa/Coca Cola World Rankings released yesterday. The rankings by the world football controlling body Fifa saw the Warriors move up to 108 in the world up from 110. Warriors have had little game time in recent months…
HARARE – Dynamos secretary-general Webster Chikengezha has confirmed that the club are likely to be less active in the transfer window and revealed that they are looking to sign at least three more players. The Glamour Boys, who saw their four-year dominance on the Castle Premiership title ended by Chicken Inn, in the just-ended season,…
HARARE – An official within Zimbabwe Cricket (ZC) is seeking to have results of last year’s board elections nullified and the entire new leadership disbanded, citing violation of electoral regulations in the whole process. Claudius Mukandiwa, vice chairman of the Harare Metropolitan Province Cricket Association, the country’s biggest cricket franchise is now legally challenging the…
HARARE – Labour activist and musician Raymond Majongwe, a self-confessed fan of Chimurenga music legend Thomas Mapfumo, will share the stage with the United States of America-based artiste in Leicester, United Kingdom on April 16, 2016. The concert, being promoted by Vee Jay Entertainment, will also feature solo guitarist are Steve “Dhongi” Makoni. Majongwe, who…
HARARE – Dendera music star Suluman “Sulu” Chimbetu, whose popularity has been boosted by the three singles he released during the just-ended festive season, will kick-start his weekend programme tonight at Inner Café located at the corner of Nelson Mandela and Mbuya Nehanda in Harare.The inner Café gig has been dubbed “Pachimambo Mambo”. Tomorrow the…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s cash-strapped government needs to do all in its powers to ensure that it pays civil servants on dates announced on Wednesday by acting Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare Saviour Kasukuwere. Failure to pay workers as promised will only heighten the uncertainty and low morale that is currently plaguing the civil service….
ADDIS ABABA – Ethiopian security forces have killed at least 140 people taking part in mass anti-government demonstrations since November, activists say, according to US-based Human Rights Watch (HRW). The protests have been sparked by fears that a plan to expand the capital’s administrative control into the Oromia region will displace Oromo farmers. HRW also…
HARARE – Fed-up civil servants have accused President Robert Mugabe’s broke government of using divide and rule tactics in its dealings with them, after it was announced that soldiers, the police and prison officers would receive their salaries ahead of everyone else this month. This emerged after government negotiators met with representatives of public servants…
