HIGHLANDERS have shown faith in assistant coach Mandla Mpofu by naming him the club’s technical manager to replace Madinda Ndlovu. Bosso were thrown into turmoil last month after Ndlovu’s head was turned by the lucrative offer from Botswana top flight club Gaborone United. The former Warriors legend finally tendered in his resignation letter last week…
THE Zifa delegation and a handful of players snuck into the country yesterday after the humiliating end to Zimbabwe’s 2019 Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) campaign in Egypt. There was no pomp or funfair after the delegation touched down at the Robert Mugabe International Airport yesterday afternoon due to the teams’ disappointing performance and Zifa’s…
GOVERNMENT has come under fire for sending a delegation including four Cabinet ministers to be part of a bloated delegation travelling with the Gems for the Netball World Cup in Liverpool, England. While this is purely a global sporting event, President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government saw it fit to include Tourism minister Prisca Mupfumira, Women and…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa, pictured, and his government are preparing a massive blitz on businesses and individuals who are charging sky-high prices for basic goods basing these on runaway black market foreign currency rates of the past few months, the Daily News can report. This comes as many businesses and schools have increased their prices for…
Obert Mpofu, under pressure to vacate his Zanu PF secretary for administration post over corruption allegations, has said he won’t be stopped from reporting for work by anyone as a graft inquiry gets underway. This comes as the Zanu PF youth league is attempting to force him to step down after two years in office…
MDC vice president Tendai Biti has said it’s high time his party’s leader Nelson Chamisa and president Emmerson Mnangagwa find one another politically, as a way of ensuring a soft-landing for the country, dogged by serious economic challenges. Speaking at the Southern African Political and Economic Series (Sapes) Trust last week, Biti said the country’s…
THE Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has said the least paid worker must earn $4 000, it has emerged. This comes as government will — starting end of this month — increase salaries for civil servants, in a move aimed at averting a potential workers’ strike. In an interview with the Daily News, ZCTU…
THE $10 million payment made to South Africa’s power company Eskom does not guarantee the availability of electricity in Zimbabwe, a Cabinet minister has said. This comes at a time when the country is facing serious power shortages that have resulted in Zesa Holdings introducing 16-hour power cuts per day, leaving many residents and industries…
A CITY of Harare municipal officer has pleaded not guilty to assaulting and throwing a freelance journalist out of a moving vehicle during a blitz against illegal vendors in September last year. Tapiwa Magaya allegedly assaulted Henry Chimbiri after mistaking him for an illegal vendor during a joint operation with the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP)….
THE Health and Child Care ministry has failed to account for payments amounting to over $9 million — a move which the auditor-general said may result in fraudulent transactions. In her 2018 report, the Auditor-General Mildred Chiri said section 81 of the Public Finance Management Act Chapter 22:1 requires payments to be supported by receipts,…
