HARARE – Highlanders coach Erol Akbay has played down talk of a crisis at the Bulawayo giants following a six-match winless run that has dented their Castle Lager Premiership title hopes. Bosso’s last league win came in the previous round when they beat CAPS United 1-0 at Barbourfields Stadium last month. However, Bosso remain dark…
TRIPOLI – About 6,500 migrants have been rescued off Libya, the Italian coastguard says, in one of the biggest operations of its kind to date. Some 40 co-ordinated rescue missions took place about 20km (12 miles) off the Libyan town of Sabratha, it added. Video footage shows migrants, said to be from Eritrea and Somalia,…
RIO DE JANEIRO – Brazil’s suspended President Dilma Rousseff has defended her record during her impeachment trial in the Senate. She is accused of illegally manipulating the budget to hide a growing deficit. Ms Rousseff said her conscience was “absolutely clean” and that she had not committed any crime. Senators are due to vote later…
HARARE – As President Robert Mugabe’s panicking government cranks up its propaganda assault on critics, including making embarrassing claims that the MDC is training its youths outside the country to use stones and catapults to fight for change, stunning intra-Zanu PF allegations have emerged that Team Lacoste is at the heart of the ongoing civil unrest….
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe and his government have launched an assault on the country’s judiciary in a bid to contain the rising protests that have awakened the international community to the Zimbabwe crisis which have tipped the southern African nation to the brink of implosion. This comes as the spirit of resistance sweeping across…
HARARE – A grouping of political parties coalescing under the banner National Electoral Reform Agenda (Nera) today approaches the High Court to formally advise that their sanctioned demonstration last week failed to take off owing to police interference. This comes after law enforcement agents brutally crashed a demonstration organised by the grouping to press for…
HARARE – The spate of protests that have rocked Zimbabwe are set to bring the country back into the regional and international spotlight, political commentators said. They said organisations like Sadc and the United Nations (UN) are increasingly getting compelled to intervene in the deepening Zimbabwe crisis. This comes as the United Nations — expected…
HARARE – War veteran and former military officer — Kudzai Sevious Mbudzi — has launched a scathing attack on President Robert Mugabe in a no-holds-barred book capturing the current political problems engulfing the country. The book, entitled The National Grievances, will be launched in Harare in the coming weeks. “During the liberation struggle, I did…
HARARE – BancABC Zimbabwe parent company, Atlas Mara, said it plans to cut staff as part of an $8 million cost-cutting drive following a difficult first half of the year, during which net profits slumped 71 percent. The group, which buys banking assets in Africa to try and benefit from the region’s growth levels, is…
HARARE – The spirit of resistance sweeping across the country is threatening to knock President Robert Mugabe and his ruling Zanu PF off their perch, with fed-up Zimbabweans planning to mount two more massive demonstrations this week alone — beginning with a nationwide shutdown on Wednesday. The announcement yesterday by radical pressure group Tajamuka/Sesijikile that…
