Phew!!! The above expression sums up the roller coaster of emotion that characterised the cliff-hanger ICC World Cup Qualifier encounter in which Zimbabwe edged rivals Afghanistan by two runs to go two games up at Queens Sports Club in Bulawayo yesterday. All-rounder Sikandar Raza won himself a second player of the match accolade for the…
HARARE – Harare giants CAPS United, have made a huge statement of intent by adding to their ranks former Dynamos talisman Denver Mukamba, defender Dennis Dauda and Milton Ncube as they bid to win this year’s league title. Ncube has been a long time target for the Green Machine who even tried to sign him…
HARARE – Several premiership clubs are in a fix ahead after only seven stadiums across the country were given the nod to host Castle Lager Premiership matches by the First Instance Body (FIB). The FIB went on a countrywide tour of stadiums last month to ascertain the state of the stadiums in line with the…
HARARE – Premiership side Ngezi Platinum Stars are set to unveil their new acquisitions when the team parade their new-look squad, which will do business ahead of the pending 2018 Castle Lager Premiership season. The Mhondoro-Ngezi platinum miners will parade seven new signings who include Tichaona Chipunza, who joined from Dynamos, goalkeepers Tatenda Munditi and…
HARARE – It is often said that the more the merrier, but not in Zimbabwe’s political context. In successive polls since the 1990s, the ruling party has survived attempts by opposition parties to take power because of the absurd divisions among its opponents. The most prominent example was the 2008 poll when former Finance minister…
HARARE – Former president Robert Mugabe, who allegedly seized 21 commercial farms during his reign, faces the spectre of losing 20 of those farms as the new administration moves to recover property reportedly looted by the despot. Read full story in today’s paper. [Adz]
HARARE – Ousted former president Robert Mugabe has thrown his full weight behind the New Patriotic Front (NPF), led in the interim by retired brigadier general Ambrose Mutinhiri, in what is likely to split the ruling party vote at the forthcoming polls, the Daily News can report. Initiated in November last year, NPF had largely…
BULAWAYO – The violence that rocked the MDC here over the weekend has been roundly condemned, even from within the opposition party itself, with officials accusing a South African-based senior official of instigating the skirmishes. This comes as the party has deployed its security and intelligence head and arbiter-general, Giles Mutsekwa, to the second city…
HARARE – ZANU PF is not taking lightly the threat posed by its former leader, Robert Mugabe, who has refused to retire quietly following his forced resignation last November. Mugabe has been taking pot-shots at President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government, saying its rise to power was through a “coup”. He has since taken his message to…
HARARE – While the National Patriotic Front (NPF) has confirmed retired brigadier-general Ambrose Mutinhiri as its presidential candidate, the former minister of State for Mashonaland East Province has coyly batted away questions over his presidential ambitions. The Zipra veteran who wrote a stinging resignation letter condemning the November soft military coup that toppled long ruling…
