HARARE – Harare City striker Martin Vengesayi is confident his side can cause an upset when they face Highlanders in the Zimbabwe National Army Charities Shield final on Sunday at Barbourfields Stadium. It will be a battle with a difference as City and Bosso, will feature in what promises to be massive encounter whose proceeds…
HARARE – In an unprecedented development that is set to shake both the governing Zanu PF and the country to their foundations, irate war veterans yesterday threw down the gauntlet to President Robert Mugabe, challenging him to resign immediately in the interest of Zimbabwe. The former freedom fighters, until now Mugabe and Zanu PF’s political…
HARARE – As the rot that is devouring Zimbabwe under Zanu PF’s continued misrule deepens, the country’s usually circumspect clergy are more and more finding their voice, uniting yesterday to say it was now time for the Church to speak truth to power and stand up for long-suffering citizens. Speaking during a discussion with the…
HARARE – Two members of the MDC have dragged the party’s leader Morgan Tsvangirai to the High Court, in a bid to nullify his appointment of Nelson Chamisa and Elias Mudzuri as vice presidents. In the application filed yesterday — by Patson Murimoga and George Rice — Tsvangirai, Chamisa, Mudzuri, MDC national chairman Lovemore Moyo…
HARARE – Infections — coupled with postpartum haemorrhages and eclampsia — were the major causes of maternal deaths in 2015, a Health ministry report revealed. According to the report, presented by the ministry’s official, Constance Mundoringisa at a Community Working Group workshop on Health, haemorrhages accounted for 24,4 percent of the deaths while infections were…
NEW DELHI – An Indian military plane with more than 20 people on board has gone missing over the Bay of Bengal, the Indian Air Force (IAF) has confirmed to the BBC. The Antonov-32 transporter aircraft took off from Chennai (Madras) at 08:30 local time (03:00 GMT), bound for Port Blair in the eastern archipelago…
HARARE – The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) is reportedly locked in negotiations with Time Bank Zimbabwe Limited (Time Bank) over monies owed to the latter and whose return may shape the local financial institution’s rebound to banking business. This also comes amid indications that Transnational Holdings Limited is set to reclaim a 26 percent…
PRETORIA – South African prosecutors say they will appeal against Oscar Pistorius’s six-year sentence for murder, calling it “shockingly too lenient”. The National Prosecuting Authority said the sentence was “disproportionate to the crime” and could bring the justice system “into disrepute”. The Olympic athlete was jailed earlier this month for murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp…
HARARE – Temperatures are once again rising among restive civil servants, amid indications that they could embark on another nationwide strike as early as next week if the stone broke government does not pay them their July salaries soon. While civil service union leaders who spoke to the Daily News yesterday were careful not to come…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s ruling Zanu PF, reeling from swelling public anger over its disastrous stewardship of the State over the past 36 years, is training its guns on pressure group Tajamuka/Sesjikile and unbowed clergyman Pastor Evan Mawarire, as it desperately seeks to quell the growing citizen unrest. The clear indication of Zanu PF’s…
