HARARE – Global Chess Foundation Kasparov through its African branch are set to bring world top chess player Grandmaster Nigel Short to Zimbabwe for a three-day working visit end of this month. The foundation is a non-profit educational organisation supported by charitable donations from individuals and its main goal is the promotion of chess as…
HARARE – Dynamos interim coach Biggie Zuze has admitted he faces a “mammoth task” after he was assigned to take charge of the stuttering Harare giants. Zuze was elevated to steer the Glamour Boys’ ship following the sacking of head coach Lloyd Mutasa earlier this week after a string of poor results that have seen…
HARARE – Zimbabwean golfer Mark Williams had a good start after the first round of the Sunshine Tour’s Investec Royal Swazi Open at the Royal Swazi Spa Country Club. Williams and South Africa’s Riekus Nortje are in second place on the leader board on 15 points and are just two points behind overnight leader Combrinck…
HARARE – There are unmistakable signs that results of the forthcoming general elections could be contested once again after Zanu PF’s rivals raised alarm over the ruling party’s refusal to allow key aspects of the electoral process to be done openly to remove rigging fears, the Daily News can report. [Adz] This follows Zanu PF’s…
HARARE – Newly-resettled farmers continue to shun insurance products despite efforts by government and the corporate sector to provide cheaper programmes targeting the agriculture sector, industry experts have said. Zimbabwe’s insurance penetration rate, which reached a high of 10 percent in the early 1990s, has been declining significantly over the last two decades with official…
HARARE – As was first exclusively reported by the Daily News early last month, it has now been confirmed that the apparent plan by former leader Robert Mugabe and his wife Grace to sink President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s election bid in this year’s keenly-anticipated national polls is effectively dead in the water. This comes as the…
HARARE – Teachers have strongly disagreed over what course of action to take after government’s offer of a 10 percent salary increment was not universally accepted by the unions — prompting sharp divisions which saw most of the schools reporting full staff complement at the commencement of the new term yesterday. The country’s largest teachers’…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) is fighting to protect its property attached to settle a $450 000 debt owed to a company contracted to partake in a $4 million borehole drilling project. This follows the High Court’s decision to grant Water Logistics Investments (Private) Limited a writ of execution in March this year…
HARARE – The High Court has ordered Labour and Social Welfare minister Petronella Kagonye to pay over $400 000, including interest, borrowed from a local bank over five years ago. The court heard on May 24, 2011, CBZ Bank Limited and Kagonye entered into an agreement in which the bank agreed to provide the politician…
HARARE – The mainstream MDC has called to order senior party members who are eyeing constituencies that have been reserved for members of its youth assembly. The party has reserved at least 20 percent of the contested seats, at both local authority and parliamentary levels, for young people. But with elections fast approaching around July/August…
