HARARE – Former Zimbabwe national team coaches Sunday Chidzambwa and Rahman Gumbo have backed the Warriors to succeed when they embark on the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) qualification journey. The Warriors will begin their Group G campaign with a home tie against Liberia at the National Sports Stadium this Sunday. Preparations for the…
HARARE – Domestic Pro 50 champions Matabeleland Tuskers ended their 2016/17 season with a nine-wicket win over Mashonaland Eagles at Harare Sports Club yesterday. Having already wrapped up the title last weekend with a seven-run Duckworth Lewis win over Mountaineers in Mutare, the Bulawayo-based side played with determination as they beat the bottom-placed Eagles yesterday….
HARARE – Despite poor organisation by the Zimbabwe Rugby Union (ZRU) that characterised the Sables’ international friendly against Zambia last weekend, coach Cyprian Mandenge was pleased with his side’s performance. The Sables ran in six tries on their way to an emphatic 64-3 victory over the Zambians during a lopsided evening match at Harare Sports…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Rugby Union (ZRU) has been hauled before the High Court, facing a $13 000 lawsuit after it failed to pay the amount for services offered by a local hospitality firm, Cresta Hotels. According to court papers, the debt dates back to March last year. Cresta Hotels was forced to approach the…
PARIS – A man has been shot by police outside the cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris after he tried to attack an officer using a hammer, police say. The suspect has been wounded in the chest, French media report. Officials say this is a “terrorist incident”. Some 900 people are still inside the cathedral. Pictures…
LAGOS – Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari is “recuperating fast” from his illness, his wife Aisha Buhari has said. She made the comments after a trip to London, where her husband is being treated for an unspecified illness. Buhari, 74, left for London nearly a month ago – his second trip to the UK for treatment…
HARARE – Award-winning actress and director Marian Kunonga, who featured in top films like Flame (1996) and a British television series called The Knock, has come out of hibernation. After drifting from country to country all over Southern Africa directing films, Kunonga has decided to make a film in her homeland. “It is a community-based…
HARARE – The fallout in President Robert Mugabe’s ruling Zanu PF over the mention last week of introverted Defence minister Sydney Sekeramayi as a possible future leader of the warring former liberation movement is escalating by the day. So bad is the emotive saga becoming, that disgruntled former freedom fighters warned yesterday that Mugabe and…
HARARE – Radical pressure group Tajamuka/Sesijikle has warned that it is planning mega protests — similar to the highly-supported shutdown of last year — to force President Robert Mugabe and his government to act on the country’s worsening economic rot. Tajamuka/Sesijikile said yesterday that it had set June 20 and 21 as the days for…
HARARE – A Zanu PF youth leader and aspiring councillor is battling for his life at Harare Central Hospital after he suffered serious burns following a petrol bomb attack by his ruling party comrades during violent clashes over housing stands in the capital’s Kuwadzana high density suburb. This comes as the warring ruling party is…
