HARARE – Masowe eChishanu UK and The New Generation will launch their third album titled Hatina Kuraswa during their eight-day crusade that will run at Old Hararians Sports Club from Friday until August 19. The church’s secretary Lyndiwe “Madzimai Lindi” Mabote told the Daily News that the 12-track album is anchored on messages of God’s…
HARARE – Although they heavily lost their entire group matches at the Rio Olympic Games, the Mighty Warriors definitely won many admirers. The aggregate scoreline in the all three of the Zimbabwe national women’s football side was 15-3 but that did not stop the side from leaving an indelible mark on the Games. Ranked 93rd…
HARARE – Young golf sensation Danielle Bekker pushed top female golfer Claire Minter to the wire during the Old Mutual Zimbabwe Ladies’ Golf Union (ZLGU) Open Strokeplay Championships over the weekend. In the end, Minter needed to maintain a cool head to edge the 13-year-old in a three-hole playoff at Borrowdale Brooke Golf Course. Her…
BULAWAYO – Part-time spinners Ish Sodhi and Martin Guptill bagged three wickets each as Zimbabwe folded on the final day of the second Test to hand New Zealand a comprehensive 254-run victory in Bulawayo yesterday. New Zealand won the two-match series 2-0 after bowling Zimbabwe out for 132 in their second innings, though the home…
HARARE – Restless war veterans, who have been a key pillar of President Robert Mugabe and Zanu PF’s power since Zimbabwe gained independence from Britain in April 1980, have signalled that they may now be ready to embrace the country’s much-maligned opposition, after meeting with leaders of radical pressure group Tajamuka/Sesjikile last week. Well-placed sources…
HARARE – The Morgan Tsvangirai-led MDC has vowed to force President Robert Mugabe to resign through a national “grand” demonstration which it says will be rolled out within a “few” weeks. The planned national demonstration comes at a time the nonagenarian is feeling the heat from the ordinary Zimbabweans whose anger has swollen in the…
HARARE – In an unprecedented move, missing activist Itai Dzamara’s family — together with political parties and civic society, including Jestina Mukoko — yesterday protested and confronted police, with children on the front-line. During the protest, in which they demanded the return of Dzamara dead or alive, the children walked up to the armed police…
HARARE – Three protestors who allegedly attacked a cop before escaping with his shoe during a demonstration against the introduction of bond notes appeared in court yesterday. Tinashe Wellington Macharika, 33, of Glen View 1, Aleck Nakomo, 21 from Marondera and Chaponda Ndlovu, 36, also from Cherutombo in Marondera appeared before Harare magistrate Jessie Kufa…
HARARE – A trial date has been set in the case of former Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) bosses who are accused of attempting to bribe the national soccer team into deliberately losing games in a match-fixing scandal. Ex-Zifa chief executive Henrietta Rushwaya, 49, and former board members Edzai Kasinauyo and ex-Warriors assistant coach Nation Dube…
BULAWAYO – An ex-senior police detective who fatally shot a man in a fight over the ownership of a Fort Rixon mine was yesterday sentenced to life in jail. Refias Masuna, 50, of Mahatshula North suburb, was convicted of murder with actual intent by Bulawayo High Court judge Justice Francis Bere. Masuna, who by the…
