HARARE – Ngezi Platinum Stars coach Tonderai Ndiraya has credited his team’s fine run thus far in the Castle Lager Premiership to the mental toughness of his players. Madamburo are unbeaten after 14 rounds of action to sit top of the table with 38 points, three ahead of second placed FC Platinum. This is a…
HARARE – Harare City coach Mark Harrison wants his charges to quickly forget about last weekend’s defeat at the hands of log leaders Ngezi Platinum Stars by responding with a victory against Highlanders in a Castle Lager Premiership tie at Rufaro Stadium tomorrow. Terrence Dzvukamanja, Kelvin Bulaji and James Nguluve all scored to put Ngezi…
HARARE – The Zimbabwe national rugby team returned from Tshwane, South Africa where they had been for the past week preparing for the 2018 Rugby Afrique Gold Cup. The Sables begin their Gold Cup campaign with a home encounter at Police Grounds on June 16 against North African side Morocco. Zimbabwe needs to win the…
HARARE – A company owned by former president Robert Mugabe has been dragged to the High Court for failing to pay over $174 000 for potato seed acquired on credit in 2015. According to court papers, in July 2015, Seed Potato Co-op (Private) Limited entered into a verbal agreement with Gushungo Holdings, owned by the…
HARARE – A parliamentary committee has recommended an investigation into the conduct of government officials, including former ministers, fingered in opaque deals involving the $200 million Gwanda solar project. The Temba Mliswa-chaired parliamentary portfolio committee on Energy and Mining Development has also recommended the dissolution of the Zesa Holdings board, as well as that of…
HARARE – The National Patriotic Front (NPF) has accused the parliamentary portfolio committee on Mines and Energy of abusing former president Robert Mugabe by persistently summoning him to give oral evidence on the missing $15 billion reportedly stolen from Marange diamonds. NPF national spokesperson Jealousy Mawarire accused Temba Mliswa, who heads the portfolio committee, of…
HARARE – Mount Pleasant Heights residents have dragged the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) and its chairperson, Justice Priscillah Chigumba, to the High Court, accusing the electoral body of clandestinely transferring them to Mazowe South Constituency. According to the urgent chamber application, former Mt Pleasant Heights councillor Warship Dumba and Celine Eunice Nyakutsikwa are seeking a…
HARARE – A coup in November, now elections in July. After years of waiting for post-Mugabe politics in Zimbabwe, the new dispensation is in full campaigning mode, amidst international re-engagement and promises of a bright future ahead — provided those elections are free, fair and credible. But how likely is that, really? So, now we…
HARARE – MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has threatened to banish Charlton Hwende and Shakespeare Mukoyi from the party because of their ‘‘wayward’’ conduct during the movement’s on-going primary elections. Hwende, a national standing committee member and Mukoyi, who is the deputy MDC youth assembly chairperson, are enmeshed in a bitter war of words as they…
HWANGE – Hwange Colliery Company Limited (HCCL) has finally climbed down from its hardline position to end a nearly 120-day long protest by wives of employees who were owed thousands of United States dollars in back pay. The Zimbabwe Stock Exchange-listed concern caused the protesting wives to end the strike by committing to providing business…
