HARARE – It has been five long heartbreaking years for Bulawayo cricket lovers, but, the drought has finally ended. That is to say, the Test cricket drought. Graeme Cremer and his charges take to the field in what will be a very firm and thorough examination of their cricketing skills. Once again, Zimbabwe stand the…
HARARE – Triangle coach David Mandigora has challenged his charges to recover from their recent struggles when they face Highlanders in a Castle Lager Premiership match at Barbourfields Stadium this afternoon. The two teams should have met two weeks ago but the match was cancelled due to civil unrest that engulfed Zimbabwe in recent weeks. …
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Premier League (cricket) kicked off last weekend with three being played in Harare and Masvingo. ZPL is the premier domestic club cricket league 40-over competition which features top clubs from Harare, Bulawayo, Midlands and Masvingo. Harare’s Vigne Cup champions Rainbow Sharks toppled Takashinga Patriot 1 by 12 runs at Takashinga Sports…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Rugby Union (ZRU) has admitted that they failed to give the Sables a good platform to perform during this year’s Africa Cup Group 1A campaign. Cyprian Mandenge’s side were relegated to the Africa Cup Group 1B following home defeats to Kenya and Uganda. ZRU did not organise any warm-up matches for the…
HARARE – Zanu PF crackheads, whose leaders have openly boasted of having degrees in violence, yesterday launched a savage and unprovoked attack on senior Daily News writer, Mugove Tafirenyika, while he was covering President Robert Mugabe’s Harare meeting with a section of war veterans and ruling party youths. The barbaric attack, which happened in the…
ISTANBUL – The Turkish authorities have announced the closure of dozens of media organisations, as a crackdown continues following the failed coup on 15 July. Three news agencies, 16 TV channels, 45 papers and 15 magazines will be shut. Separately, nearly 1,700 members of the armed forces – including 149 generals and admirals – have…
HARARE – After a few weeks’ lull, Zanu PF’s seemingly unstoppable factional and succession wars have erupted anew, with the group of young party Turks who go by the moniker Generation 40 (G40) said to have launched a savage assault on their erstwhile comrades backing Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa to succeed President Robert Mugabe, in a…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) has launched a crackdown against car importers as it bids to stamp out corrupt practices and revenue leakages which have seen the authority suspending its top management. This also comes as the tax agency has been engulfed in a scandal of its own surrounding the alleged understatement of…
HARARE – Zimbabwe civic society wants the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) to act on the deteriorating political situation in the country at its next summit in Swaziland, next month. More than 30 Civic Society Organisations (CSOs) met in Harare yesterday where they announced they will petition Sadc to include Zimbabwe on its agenda to…
HARARE – Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa has said Zimbabweans are innovative when it comes to stealing, adding that people who label ministers as corrupt are “misplaced”. Answering a journalist who had questioned how the government was going to do deal with corruption on their mooted $500 million agriculture programme, during a press conference in Harare,…
