HARARE – The Zimbabwe squad at the ICC U-19 Cricket World Cup in New Zealand should cherish the opportunity and use it as a stepping stone to a professional career according to current senior players. Stephan Mangongo’s side will have to negotiate through a tough Group B that comprises Australia, India and Papua New Guinea…
HARARE – Bangladesh will not have a substantive coach in time for the tri-series against Zimbabwe and Sri Lanka which starts on January 15. Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) president Nazmul Hassan said Richard Halsall, the assistant coach, will be in charge of coaching the side while manager Khaled Mahmud, Shakib Al Hasan and Mashrafe Mortaza…
HARARE – With only a few months left before make-or-break polls, the country’s opposition parties are in disarray due to the never-ending inter-party fights over issues that would otherwise pale into insignificance when compared with their desire to wrest power from Zanu PF, the Daily News can report. It had been widely expected that the…
HARARE – MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai will next week hold crisis meetings of his party’s top organs in a bid crush dissent and re-energise the movement that appears to be running out of steam ahead of crucial polls. Tsvangirai, who has been in the opposition trenches for nearly two decades, is expected to read the…
HARARE – Public hospitals could be driven towards the brink of closure through the implementation of a long-standing government policy compelling them to offer free treatment to expecting mothers, children under the age of five, and citizens above the age of 65 years. This follows a recent directive issued by the ministry of Health and…
HARARE – Harare City Council (HCC) is proposing amending the food hygiene by-law to include a clause on how food handlers operate and will be regulated. According to environmental committee minutes, the by-law had skipped food handlers and only concentrated on the premises. In the minutes, council noted that the old by-law was half-baked because…
HARARE – The KARIBA Municipality (MOK) has partnered with the Infrastructure Development Bank of Zimbabwe (IDBZ) to drive housing supply in the resort town. According to a notice by the local authority’s town clerk Webster Tembo, the project will deliver housing stands in the low density area of Kasese at $8 per square metre and…
HARARE – Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans’ Association (ZNLWVA) must go for a fresh congress to elect a new leadership after the top guns in the association bagged plush jobs in government and the ruling party Zanu PF, analysts have said. Following the inauguration of President Emmerson Mnangagwa, ZNLWVA chairperson Christopher Mutsvangwa was appointed special…
HARARE – Zimbabwe Local Government Association (Zilga), comprising 92-local authorities, has pitched for the fielding of female candidates in at least 50 percent of council seats in the forthcoming key 2018 general elections. The powerful organisation — which came out of the merger of Urban Councils Association of Zimbabwe (Ucaz) and the Association of Rural…
BULAWAYO – The eight Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) members who were arrested on Sunday were released by a Bulawayo magistrate yesterday, without any charge being preferred against them. Initially, they had been charged of undermining the authority of the president before the charge was amended to disorderly conduct in a public place. The eight were…
