HARARE – Zimbabwe get their ICC Women World T20 Africa Qualifiers campaign up and running against hosts Namibia in Windhoek this afternoon without two key players; Sharne Mayers and Mary-Anne Musonda. The team arrived in Windhoek from a successful tour of South Africa where they won six out of the eight games they played against…
HARARE – Zimbabwe Gold Cup representatives Old Georgians (OGs) risk being deflated by one of their own when they take on South African side Raiders this afternoon at OGs Sports Club in Groombridge. Kick-off is 3pm. Former Sables speedster and Zambezi Cheetahs utility back Gardner Nechironga is on the books of Raiders and will line-up…
HARARE – There are growing fears that the country could slip back to the 2008 hyperinflationary era dominated by fuel and food shortages following the re-emergence of long queues at most garages this week as a result of biting foreign currency shortages. This “coincided” with the rise in prices of both petrol and diesel at…
HARARE – Harare City Council (HCC) will hire outside human resources specialists to oversee the selection of the new town clerk. Residents, however, say this is an expensive process which could be rendered useless if the Local Government Board is not satisfied with the settled applicant. HCC has been operating without a substantive town clerk…
HARARE – A Lieutenant-Colonel who had been on trial for allegedly raping his maid on Thursday walked free after the court ruled the State had failed to prove the case against and him and that the complainant had lied about the offence. Lt Col Rangarirai Kembo was accused of raping a 19-year-old maid who alleged…
HARARE – Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s survival in the ruling Zanu PF party is now solely at the benevolence of President Robert Mugabe after the political careers of some of his ardent sympathisers were shipwrecked by his rivals on Wednesday, the Daily News can report. For the umpteenth time since the vice president was put…
HARARE – Government has decided to shut down loss-making parastatals and State enterprises, President Robert Mugabe said yesterday. Mugabe made the announcement yesterday while addressing a high level interface meeting with industrialists at his official residence in Harare yesterday. He said the decision was made in Cabinet during its traditional weekly meeting. “We certainly share…
HARARE – One of the rival church groups fighting to have influence over the ageing spiritual leader, Aaron Mhukuta — also popularly known as Madzibaba Wimbo — has written to President Robert Mugabe, drawing his attention, once again, to the long-running dispute in the Johanne Masowe Vadzidzi vaJeso sect, which has assumed factional undertones in…
HARARE – The moment government sent mixed signals over South African socialite — Zodwa WaBantu’s ( pictured) appearance at the Samba Night in Harare during the ongoing Carnival — fears were heightened that her visit was going to end in tears. Indeed for the thousands of showbiz followers in Harare and Mutare who had been…
BULAWAYO – Highlanders coach Erol Akbay and his executive have buried the hatchet after days of public bickering as they prepare for Sunday’s trip to face Dynamos at Rufaro Stadium. Akbay’s relationship with his bosses had deteriorated in recent weeks and following the side’s fourth loss on the trot last weekend to Chapungu, it reached…
