HARARE – Following the Sables’ poor start in the 2018 Rugby Afrique Gold Cup, the Zimbabwe Rugby Union (ZRU) has made a number of changes in their technical and management structures. Zimbabwe started their campaign to qualify for the 2019 Rugby World Cup finals to be held in Japan with a 23-23 home draw with…
HARARE – Top socialite and flamboyant businessman Genius Kadungure is living large in the United Kingdom where he is going on endless shopping sprees for various labels. Ginimbi went to London for an all-white party two weekends ago, which was well attended as people even queued up to get inside the venue. While there, the…
HARARE – Songbird Pauline Gundidza released a love song titled Ndakakumirira last week in celebration of her 33rd birthday. The song was recorded in South Africa by gTBeats, a Zimbabwean producer who also produces music for Buffalo Soldier, Beenie Man and Queen Vee among others. On Ndakakumirira, the mother of two explores fundamental values of…
HARARE – Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) chairperson Priscilla Chigumba and her entire team have a huge task at their hands of running a credible poll on July 30. Zec risks failing this mandate because of the way they have batted away demands from the opposition parties, particularly the MDC Alliance. On Wednesday, a massive demonstration…
HARARE – On Wednesday, we commemorated World Population Day. This day has been commemorated globally each year since 1989. It’s a day that focuses our attention on the importance of population issues and is therefore quite central to our work as the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). The theme for this year’s commemorations is “Family…
HARARE – Two of President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s security aides who were injured last month when a bomb blast rocked an election campaign rally at White City Stadium in Bulawayo have been airlifted to South Africa for further treatment. The Daily News can exclusively reveal that the two aide-de-camps, whose condition was said to be critical,…
HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his main rival, Nelson Chamisa, have both shut the door on gay rights, saying same-sex marriage remains banned in Zimbabwe. This comes after Zimbabwe’s gays and lesbians said they have pleasantly welcomed a potential sharp turn by Mnangagwa’s ruling Zanu PF to embrace gay rights. Gays and Lesbians Association…
HARARE – Opposition parties yesterday came out guns blazing, accusing the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) chairperson Priscilla Chigumba, of acting in bad faith after announcing that the printing of presidential ballot papers for the July 30 harmonised elections had been completed. Zec said on Wednesday that the printing of ballot papers had been completed and…
HARARE – Popular Johane Masowe eChishanu Vadzidzi VaJesu Church founder Aaron Mhukuta Gomo, commonly known as Mudzidzi Wimbo, has died. He was 96. Announcing Wimbo’s death on his Facebook account yesterday, Zanu PF youth league political commissar Godfrey Tsenengamu — who is a member of the church — said God’s will has been done. “VaMudzidzi…
HARARE – In what is likely to dent the credibility of the forthcoming polls, police officers here were made to cast their postal vote at Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) headquarters at Ross Camp yesterday in the absence of both observers and officials from the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec). Opposition political parties were also caught unawares…
