HARARE City coach Mark Harrison is expected back in the country from his long holiday in Europe this afternoon to resume preparations ahead of the 2019 Castle Lager Premiership season as the Sunshine Boys look set to improve on their last season’s performances. Speculation linking Harrison with a move away from the Sunshine Boys…
HARARE – Last month, government allowed a fleet of private buses to join forces with the Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (Zupco) in servicing cities and towns so as to counter the high transport costs that were being charged by kombi operators. The exorbitant fares had adversely affected workers and school children who commute daily to and…
HARARE – Top world labour unions yesterday came out guns blazing against President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s regime over the arrest of International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) general-secretary for Africa Kwasi Adu-Amankwah. Amankwah was picked up on Tuesday just after checking into a Harare hotel just after his arrival at the Robert Mugabe International Airport. Africa’s foremost…
HARARE City Council (HCC) is set to introduce a stricter water rationing regime as dam levels at Lake Chivero continue dwindling. Acting distribution manager Tapiwa Kunyadini told a full council meeting that the city’s raw water was now very concentrated with nitrogen and phosphorus because there has not been any significant rains. [GoogleAd] The engineer’s…
HARARE – A Harare man appeared in court yesterday charged with hacking into tax agency, the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra)’s computer system in collaboration with the agency’s employee to steal $2 million. Manase Manjova, 34, appeared before Harare magistrate Rumbidzai Mugwagwa. [GoogleAd] The case was postponed to today for bail considerations. Manjova allegedly connived…
There is a looming chronic workforce shortage at the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) after the Constitutional Court (Con-Court) ordered the body to disengage all serving members of the security services within its employment, with a leading legal watchdog saying it was vital for Finance minister Mthuli Ncube to allow the NPA to recruit new staff….
HARARE – A Harare court yesterday turned away a challenge to the prosecution of three Grain Marketing Board Pension Fund (GMBPF) executives facing charges of defrauding the grain utility of $1 million. Harare regional magistrate Lucy Mungwari declined to take up an appeal by executives Korbs Kobie Mutandiro, 59, Basilio Sandamu, 64, and Taona Munzvandi,…
HARARE – Zimbabwe women cricket team this week got off to an intensive batting camp to fine- tune their skills before they embark on game practice matches against junior boys provincial age group teams and academies. The team resumed camp last month and have been going through a rigorous and thorough reconditioning check under the…
HARARE – Undisputed Zimbabwe female bodybuilding champion Regina Jonga’s quest to participate in her first China international contest early next month hangs in the balance owing to lack of sponsorship. Jonga is set to contest in the Tera Inter-Continental 2019 WFF Pro Am Bodybuilding championship in Shanghai on March 7 and 8. Her Achilles heel…
MDC party leader Nelson Chamisa, pictured, has left the country on a mission to brief unnamed African leaders about the deteriorating situation in Zimbabwe. In a statement, the party’s director of communications Luke Tamborinyoka said Chamisa is “on a diplomatic offensive in Africa to sensitise the continent on the situation in Zimbabwe”. [GoogleAd] Without disclosing…
