HARARE – It’s only four games into the 2018 Castle Lager Premiership season but today’s clash between log leaders Ngezi Platinum Stars and Chicken Inn at Baobab Stadium already promises to be a humdinger. Ngezi Platinum carry a 100 percent record into today’s match having won all their first four matches, without conceding a single…
HARARE – The prize money up for grabs at the 2018 Old Mutual Zimbabwe Open golf tournament has increased from R1,8 million to R2 million, organisers announced yesterday. This marks an 11,11 percent increase of the purse for the Sunshine Tour-sanctioned tournament which tees off at Royal Harare Golf Club on April 19. Old Mutual…
HARARE – Kaizer Chiefs coach Steve Komphela has praised Zimbabwean defender Teenage Hadebe following his stoppage time winner against Free State Stars on Wednesday night. With the match headed for a 0-0 result, Hadebe headed home a corner kick in added time to keep Amakhosi’s slim Absa premiership title hopes alive. The Naturena-based side is…
HARARE – CAPS United coach Lloyd Chitembwe says his side will not take premiership debutants, Herentals, lightly in tomorrow’s Castle Lager Premiership match at the National Sports Stadium. Makepekepe, who are unbeaten after four matches, take on the newly-promoted side which has shaken off their unconvincing start to life in the top flight by beating…
HARARE – ZPC Kariba coach Godfrey Tamirepi reckons they are in an uncomfortable position in the Castle Lager Premiership and has described their clash against struggling giants Dynamos this afternoon as “a must win”. The Glamour Boys travel to Nyamhunga Stadium hoping to arrest their slump having collected a single point in their opening four…
HARARE – Worried religious groups are apparently stepping up their efforts to bring together President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his sulking predecessor Robert Mugabe, pictured, in a bid to break the heightening tension between the two former allies. Read full story in today’s paper. [Adz]
HARARE – The United States of America continues to give encouragement to President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his ruling Zanu PF — amid strong indications that Washington is ready to consider ending more than 15 years of Zimbabwe’s costly isolation by the international community if the country holds free and fair elections this year. This comes…
HARARE – The Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe (Baz) has banned all the country’s radio and State television stations from carrying programmes that advertise propets and traditional healings. The ban is part of concerted efforts by authorities to clamp down on the increasing incidence of charlatans who masquerade as powerful prophets and traditional healers. Many church…
HARARE – Vice President Kembo Mohadi will on Monday lead a team of serving and retired Cabinet ministers and security chiefs, respectively, in giving evidence on how police and the military were awarded licences to mine diamonds in the gem-rich Marange area. The other high-profile officials include former Cabinet ministers Didymus Mutasa, Sydney Sekeramayi, Walter…
HARARE – Confusion has rocked the long-delayed Harare-Beitbridge-Chirundu highway dualisation project, with Transport and Infrastructure Development minister, Joram Gumbo, insisting government has not cancelled a tender awarded to Austrian contractor, Geiger International (Geiger). His position contradicts President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s reported announcement that Cabinet had resolved to withdraw the $1 billion tender awarded to Geiger, which…
