HARARE – Castle Lager Premiership log leaders Ngezi Platinum Stars maintained their 100 percent start to the season when they beat How Mine 2-0 at Baobab Stadium yesterday. Ngezi now have nine points after three consecutive victories over Black Rhinos, Hwange and now How Mine. Yesterday, forward Terrence Dzvukamanja put in a man-of-the-match performance scoring…
HARARE – Collen Makaza’s dream to sign off his career with a Two Oceans Marathon gold medal will have to be shelved for another year after he finished fourth in a hard-fought race in Cape Town, South Africa, yesterday. Makaza was the first Zimbabwean home after stopping the clock in 3 hours 12 minutes and…
HARARE – Harare City Football Club could be headed for lean times after the city’s mayor on Thursday drastically reduced the team’s spending by over 75 percent. The council’s sports budget had previously been set at $5,5 million with the Sunshine Boys receiving a $2 million vote. However, there has been an considerable reduction in…
HARARE – Takesure Chiragwi started his tenure as Shabanie Mine head coach on a losing note after watching his new side lose 2-0 to Bulawayo City at Maglas Stadium yesterday. Chiragwi was appointed the Chinda Boys coach only on Wednesday to replace Wilson Mutekede, who is now the new Zimbabwe Football Association technical director. Under…
JOHANNESBURG – Last Friday, the Cosafa Executive agreed to review how Caf tournaments are awarded to host countries. This follows an outcry from the region which feels short-changed by the previous Issa Hayatou executive. The bone of contention for Cosafa is that the past and coming Afcon tournaments are dominated by central and west Africa…
HARARE – With Zimbabwe’s economy continuing to die — as manifested by rising poverty levels, worsening job losses and severe cash shortages — the government is showing signs of panic, amid fresh warnings by experts that the country is headed for an economic disaster akin to the meltdown of 2008. This comes as the Reserve…
HARARE – Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai will soon pick his preferred coalition partners, as he bids to end President Robert Mugabe’s and Zanu PF’s 37 years in power, it has emerged. This comes as opposition parties have come under increasing pressure from long-suffering Zimbabweans to come up with a united front to end Zanu PF’s misrule….
HARARE – Harare couple who has been charged for pimping two juvenile girls at their Old Highfield home in Harare have appeared in court. Defendants Mercy Muchenje, 36, and her husband Naboth Kereke, 37, are answering to charges of procuring for the purpose of child sexual exploitation before Harare magistrate Victoria Mashamba. They were remanded…
RUSAPE – Hitchhikers are frustrating Rusape’s clean-up efforts by destroying bins along the Mutare-Harare highway by setting bonfires in them to keep warm at night, a senior council official has charged. Gladys Mushati, who heads the town’s environment department, told journalists during a tour of the city that hitchhikers along the busy Mutare-Harare highway were…
HARARE – The European Union (EU) has given Zimbabwe $2,4 million to help farmers alleviate the impact of the lean season that peaked from January to March 2017. Once the bread-basket of the region, Zimbabwe has since 2000 struggled to feed its people due to droughts and President Robert Mugabe’s seizure of white-owned farms to…
