BULAWAYO – New Highlanders coach Errol Akbay vowed to transform the Bulawayo giants into a competitive side which challenges for titles on a regular basis after he was unveiled yesterday. The Dutchman arrived in Bulawayo shortly after midday yesterday via South Africa and held his first media briefing at the team’s club house before taking…
HARARE – Zifa president Philip Chiyangwa is confident the Confederation of African Football Club Licensing seminar will help the local clubs improve their governance and attain professionalism. Speaking during the official opening of the two-day indaba in the capital yesterday, Chiyangwa urged all Premiership clubs to lead in adopting Fifa’s club licensing requirements. Caf dispatched…
HARARE – Zimbabwean top female cyclists Skye Davidson and Stacy Hyslop are now in line to claim crucial Olympic qualifying points at the African Continental Championships in Casablanca, Morocco next week. The duo warmed up to the championships in style by finishing among the top five riders during a meet in Benoni, South Africa at…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s top amateur golfers had a nightmarish outing at the inaugural African Amateur Stroke Play Championship in South Africa but in Asia it was a different story for rising golf sensation Scott Vincent. Chasing his maiden Asian Tour win, Vincent shot a total 275 to close on a five-way tie at number seven…
HARARE – Zimbabwe Platinum Holdings (Zimplats) parent company Impala Platinum Holdings (Implats) says it expects its basics earnings per share (EPS) to decline by 30 percent in the half year to December 2015 due to the decline in international metal prices. The south African platinum producer — with an 87 percent shareholding in Zimplats — …
HARARE – The right to shelter is a right enshrined in our Constitution and we hope that our government that is in the habit of demolishing people’s houses will one day appreciate that sobering fact. Thumbs up to High Court judge Priscilla Chigumba who rapped government departments for illegally demolishing houses along Airport Road without…
HARARE – As the Zanu PF factional wars get deadlier and dirtier, the party faction linked to embattled Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa is increasingly mounting an open rebellion against President Robert Mugabe and his influential wife Grace, amid indications that the group wants the soon-to-be 92 years old leader out of office before the 2018…
HARARE – Prosecutor-General Johannes Tomana yesterday challenged his placement on remand over charges of abuse of office and obstructing justice after he dropped a case against two men accused of plotting to bomb President Robert Mugabe’s dairy farm. The top prosecutor said attempts to prosecute him were ultra vires the new Constitution which gives him…
HARARE – The High Court has barred the media from covering proceedings in a criminal case of four men, including two soldiers, on charges of plotting to bomb President Robert Mugabe’s dairy outside Harare. A director of Military Intelligence sought and got the gag order, which was presented yesterday before provincial magistrate Vakayi Chikwekwe at…
HARARE – Children in Mashonaland Central are fainting from hunger, the resident minister has warned First Lady Grace Mugabe, amid reports over a million countrywide risk starvation as the humanitarian crisis deteriorates at a dangerously rapid pace. Food aid and supplies of grain imported by the government are falling far short of immediate requirements to…
