CAPS United……………………(1) 1 Mutare City……………………..(2) 2 HARARE – Ten-man CAPS United suffered another setback in their stumbling Castle Lager Premiership season following a disappointing defeat at the hands of bottom-placed Mutare City yesterday. The Green Machine’s game plan went up in smoke as early as the second minute when their goalkeeper Prosper Chigumba was shown…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s largest opposition party, the MDC, is racing against time in its bid to tie up loose ends ahead of next month’s watershed harmonised polls in which it will be facing Zanu PF for the sixth time since its formation in 1999. It is, however, the first election to be held without the…
HARARE – A showdown is looming between the ruling party and the MDC over a planned demonstration by the latter with the Zanu PF youth league vowing to shut the opposition out of the capital city if they proceed with tomorrow’s protest. The Zanu PF youth wing’s reaction follows an announcement by the MDC Alliance…
HARARE – Dressed in camouflage, a black beret and with his epaulettes all over his attire, the then commander of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) Constantino Chiwenga was stern, stiff and looked stressed on a warm afternoon last November. He waved the country’s Constitution, and warned that the military was about to step in to…
HARARE – Poor households in the southern, western and far northern regions of Zimbabwe will need food assistance up to next month with the situation getting worse thereafter, the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (Fewsnet) has said. In its latest report, Fewsnet said due to a prolonged dry spell in December 2017, and January this…
HARARE – Close to 145 000 people registered to vote during the period opened for the inspection of the voters’ roll, bringing the total number of registered voters to about 5,5 million. In a statement, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) said the number of registered voters now stands at 5 524 188, after 144 873…
HARARE – The Harare City Council (HCC) is geared to start rolling out 80 000 prepaid meters amid resistance from residents. Council spokesperson Michael Chideme said they will target areas that have been traditionally receiving water 24/7 for the exercise. “Two companies have been awarded tenders for the roll-out of the 80 000 meters. We…
HARARE – Top MDC officials including sitting Members of Parliament who lost primary elections are reportedly ganging up to form a strong team to fight Nelson Chamisa in 2019 at the opposition party’s congress. Before he succumbed to colon cancer in February this year, MDC founding president Morgan Tsvangirai had sought to strategically ring-fence sitting…
HARARE – The ministry of Lands, Agriculture and Rural Resettlement has launched a manhunt for fraudsters who are abusing the name of its principal officer, retired chief air marshal Perrance Shiri, to fleece desperate land seekers of their hard-earned cash. In a statement, the deputy minister of Lands, Agriculture and Rural Resettlement, David Marapira, said…
HARARE – Deputy Finance minister Terrence Mukupe is on his way out, a shadowy State media columnist who writes under the pseudonym of Bishop Lazarus has said. Writing in yesterday’s edition, Bishop Lazarus said he cannot spend much time discussing on Mukupe because he is on his way out. “I know many are itching to…
