HARARE – Zimbabwe’s hunt for the ICC Under 19 World Cup came to a crashing end after the side suffered a 10-wicket defeat at the hands of India in the final Group B match at Mount Maunganui, New Zealand yesterday. The local teenagers will, however, remain in New Zealand competing in the less fashionable Plate…
HARARE – Zambezi Cheetahs coach Gilbert Nyamutsamba feels there is renewed interest in the shorter version of the game which will help the team improve in this crucial year. The Zimbabwe Sevens national rugby side is currently on a high as they have started preparations for the 2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens finals to be…
HARARE – The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) is scrutinising a docket alleging abuse of office and obstruction of the course of justice by former vice president Phelekezela Mphoko while he was still in government. The NPA, responsible for instituting and undertaking criminal prosecutions on behalf of the State, was handed Mphoko’s docket by the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption…
HARARE – The country’s medical doctors are threatening to down tools if government does not increase their on-call allowances by 50 percent, among other demands. In a letter dated January 18, 2018, addressed to the minister of Health and Child Care David Parirenyatwa, the doctors said their demands must be addressed as part of government’s…
HARARE – In the most comprehensive policy speech of the presidential campaign, MDC vice president Nelson Chamisa has presented an opposition MDC Alliance vision of a growth and fairness economy, an economic agenda intended to end cash shortages, revive derelict factories, lift wages, expand social services, and combat a widening gap between rich and poor….
HARARE – The uniformed forces will be roped in to wipe out illegal activities such as vending, mushika-shika (pirate taxis) and money changing in local authorities around the country, Local Government minister July Moyo said yesterday. He told a news conference that the unregulated selling of second- hand clothes and food, illegal transport operators as…
HARARE – Zanu PF has hammered the final nails on the political coffins of former Cabinet ministers — Walter Mzembi, Makhosini Hlongwane and Samuel Undenge — when it recalled the trio and eight others from Parliament which duly announced yesterday that they had ceased to be members of the National Assembly. [Adz] Also expelled are…
HARARE – The National Assembly has ratcheted up pressure on President Emmerson Mnangagwa, calling on him to take action against Cabinet ministers accused of improper conduct. Led by Mabvuku Tafara Member of Parliament James Maridadi, the lawmakers were seething with anger on Wednesday over Mnangagwa’s inaction on some of his lieutenants who have been fingered…
HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa, pictured below, has banned trade in live elephants following a global outcry in the wake of the sale of 34 baby elephants to China late last year. Mnangagwa also banned trade in other endangered wild animals such as the rhinoceros, lions and pangolins which are on the Convention on International…
HARARE – Rural district councils have hailed President Emerson Mnangagwa’s administration for paying primary attention to the rural people’s living conditions and concentrating on the stabilisation and betterment of their livelihoods. Association of Rural District Councils of Zimbabwe (ARDCZ) said Mnangagwa — who rose to power in November last year following a de facto military…
