HARARE – A convincing all-round display by a visiting second-string India cricket team swept aside Zimbabwe by nine wickets in the first match of the Killer Cup ODI series here yesterday. The visitors captain MS Dhoni won the toss and sent in Zimbabwe to bat first and the locals seemed to have no answers to…
HARARE – With Zimbabwe’s political and economic decline accelerating by the day, and President Robert Mugabe’s broke government continuing to battle to meet its obligations — including salaries for civil servants — economists say only the departure of the “financially illiterate” Zanu PF government from power can save the country from imploding completely. In saying…
HARARE – Former Finance minister Tendai Biti is having a laugh but laced with a tinge of disappointment. In 2010, during the inclusive government era, Biti suggested Zimbabwe join the Rand Monetary Union (RMU) as a way of adopting the South Africa Rand instead of using a basket of multiple currencies, including the US dollar….
HARARE – In yet another horror accident on Zimbabwe’s jungle roads, seven Dynamos Football Club supporters died on the spot along the Harare-Bulawayo highway yesterday when the minibus taxi they were travelling in burst a tyre and veered off the road before overturning at Battlefields. The fans were travelling to Gweru where the Glamour Boys,…
HARARE – Suspended Harare mayor Bernard Manyenyeni has approached the High Court again challenging Local Govenment minister Saviour Kasukuwere’s decision to suspend him for the second time, within 24 hours of re-assuming duty. The High Court initially gave an order, ruling that in terms of the law the minister was only empowered to suspend a…
HARARE – Former Zifa board member Edzai Kasinauyo is determined to clear his name after he was banned for 10 years from all football activities for his alleged involvement in the Warriors match-fixing scandal. Zifa banned former officials Henrietta Rushwaya and Jonathan Musavengana for life while Kasinauyo and former Warriors coach Ian Gorowa were handed…
HARARE – Jamaican musician Romain Virgo will grace Black Opal Face of Zimbabwe (Bofoz) at the pageant slated for September 17 at the Glamis Arena in Harare. Bofoz is a pageant that seeks to identify a brand ambassador for Black Opal in Zimbabwe. The competition is open to Zimbabwean women aged 18 and above. The…
HARARE – Sensing danger, Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa (pictured) was apparently forced to beg for his political life in the warring Zanu PF on Thursday, disowning restless war veterans and other senior ruling party officials in the process who have been agitating for him to succeed President Robert Mugabe. Consistently reliable Zanu PF sources told…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe torched a political storm on Thursday when he described recent pronouncements by the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA), that Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa should be his guaranteed heir, as akin to the behaviour of dissidents. A number of liberation struggle stalwarts who spoke to the Daily News yesterday…
HARARE – Opposition political parties have said President Robert Mugabe’s “reckless” statements in which he referred to war veterans rallying behind Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s presidential ambitions as dissidents evokes painful Gukurahundi memories, a chapter they say is still to be closed since the 92-year-old has not apologised for the death of an estimated 20…
