HARARE – Defending champions FC Platinum will be desperate to bounce back to winning ways when they return to Mandava Stadium for a date against stubborn Bulawayo Chiefs in a Castle Lager Premiership match this afternoon. Defeat at the hands of Harare City on Wednesday saw FC Platinum’s lead at the top of the table…
HARARE – Innocent Benza, Herentals club owner and player has urged soccer fans to brace for more quality stuff from him and his son, Tinotenda who is also a player in the team. While there are many who have villified Benza, 45, saying he should retire from the game, the Herentals’ proprietor and striker thinks…
HARARE – West African football giants Cameroon and East African nation Uganda have been invited for this year’s Cosafa Women’s Championship set for Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality, South Africa next month. The pair will join hosts South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia and Swaziland for the regional football extravaganza. The tournament…
HARARE – Immediate-past ex-Zimbabwe cricket captain Graeme Cremer went through a successful knee surgery in Harare on Thursday. The 31-year-old leg-spinner is set to miss the country’s scheduled tours to South Africa and Bangladesh in September but is optimistic of joining the team for the Bangladesh Test and limited overs series set for October. He…
HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa, will finally be sworn in tomorrow after the Constitutional Court (Con-Court) unanimously upheld his July 30 election victory yesterday and threw out opposition leader Nelson Chamisa’s petition that had sought to overturn the result. The landmark ruling by Zimbabwe’s highest court brought to an end weeks of uncertainty and anxiety…
HARARE – Opposition leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday accepted the outcome of the Constitutional Court’s ruling in favour of President Emmerson Mnangagwa regarding last month’s hotly-contested polls. On his part — and as he embarks on the arduous task of uniting and rebuilding Zimbabwe — Mnangagwa himself extended an olive branch to Chamisa to join him…
HARARE – Outgoing European Union (EU) ambassador to Zimbabwe Philipe Van Damme has said the country needs to break away from the past and focus on the future in order to develop. Van Damme said this at the New Ambassador Hotel on Wednesday, where he was holding his “final” discussion, ending his four-year stay in…
HARARE – The Elders have urged Zimbabweans to uphold the democratic rights to justice and peaceful protest, and refrain from words or actions that could incite violence, drawing on the counsel of their late chair, Kofi Annan. In a statement issued ahead of yesterday’s ruling by the Constitutional Court, the grouping called on political leaders…
HARARE – President-elect Emmerson Mnangagwa will be sworn in on Sunday in line with the country’s laws, which require a presidential poll winner to take oath of office within 48 hours after the Constitutional Court (Con-Court) has announced its decision on an election challenge. Chamisa had challenged the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission’s declaration that Mnangagwa won…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s Constitutional Court (Con-Court) yesterday dismissed the petition filed by opposition MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa, challenging the results of the July 30 presidential election, thereby confirming Emmerson Mnangagwa as the winner of the poll. The Daily News caught up with a number of political analysts who called on the president to keep…
