HARARE – Warriors star player Khama Billiat expressed disappointment on missing out on the team’s first match of the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) campaign due to injury. Zimbabwe take on Liberia at the National Sports Stadium on Sunday without one of their star players, who is still recovering from an ankle injury. The…
HARARE – Newly-appointed Warriors captain Knowledge Musona said it is a huge honour to be handed the armband to lead the team for Sunday’s Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Liberia. The Warriors begin their Group B campaign with a clash against the Lone Stars at the National Sports Stadium with Musona leading the team…
HARARE – NetOne has answered the legislators’ call by handing over a donation to the 2017 Parliament Open and Sports Day scheduled for Harare tomorrow. The mobile telephone network operator yesterday availed the sponsorship for the Parliament’s winning teams in the following disciplines; volleyball, netball and soccer. Each winning team from the three disciplines is…
HARARE – A deadly virus has hit the country’s largest poultry producer, Irvine’s — forcing the company to slaughter more than 140 000 chickens as it fights to contain the avian flu which it says will cause market shortages. The avian flu outbreak has already seen Zimbabwe’s neighbours, Mozambique and Botswana, cancelling all chicken imports…
HARARE – Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC has warned its prospective coalition partners that it is keeping its eyes “wide open” to avoid carrying suspected Zanu PF “spies” into the eagerly-awaited grand alliance which will take President Robert Mugabe head-on in next year’s polls. Tsvangirai and leaders of the smaller opposition parties who include former…
HARARE – Operations at Forbes Border Post in Mutare will be interrupted in the coming weeks to pave way for the construction of a new road. This comes after the Manicaland Provincial office gave border officials a two-week ultimatum to vacate office buildings. The offices at one of the country’s busiest ports of entry are…
HARARE – The World Bank (WB) has confirmed that the country’s economy is dying, slashing the economic growth from 3,8 percent to 2,5 percent in yet another dose of bad news for the millions of long-suffering Zimbabweans who are struggling to make ends meet. Last year, the WB downgraded the country from its list of…
HARARE – The United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) has said that its General Assembly would have a final vote in September on the Executive Council’s Georgian nominee Zurab Pololikashvili for the UNWTO secretary-general post, even as more are opposing his confirmation, raising the spectre of Zimbabwe Tourism minister Walter Mzembi clinching the post. The hard-working…
HARARE – A medical technique conducted on a South African woman arrested following suspicion that she had ingested cocaine packs failed to discover any contraband, with the State altering her charges to defeating the course of justice. Isaura Masinga, 40, of Germistone, South Africa, entered Zimbabwe on May 5 and was confined to police custody,…
HARARE – United States President Donald Trump’s administration is ready to have “meaningful” dialogue with the Zimbabwean government once it is satisfied there is political and economic transformation, a top official said yesterday. “The relationship with the Zimbabwean government is part of the reason why I am here. “We are not trying to vet specific…
