BULAWAYO top flight teams have remained on high alert over the Coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak as they continue with their preseason training in a bid to maintain players’ fitness. The league was originally scheduled to kick-off last weekend but due to the global pandemic, all public gathering with over 100 people are now prohibited for the…
MOSES Chunga will continue as Chapungu head coach despite the club having to play their football in the Zifa Central Region Division One League. Chapungu, who were relegated from the Castle Lager Premiership last year, were hoping to bounce back into the top flight via a technicality. Waru Waru were hoping Herentals’ appeal before the…
Nigel Matongorere SPORTS EDITOR matongoreren@dailynews.co.zw CAPS United have become the first Castle Lager Premiership team to suspend any training activities amidst the ongoing global coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak. Zimbabwe has so far recorded one death and two positive tests of the lethal virus which was first reported in Wuhan, China last November. On a global scale,…
Sindiso Mhlophe and Fungi Kwaramba ZIMBABWE yesterday recorded its first known death from the lethal coronavirus — amid a continuing lack of public vigilance regarding the disease, and fresh doubts about the country’s capacity to deal with the global pandemic, the Daily News reports. This comes as it was confirmed yesterday that prominent broadcaster Zororo Makamba, 30,…
FORMER Local Government minister Saviour Kasukuwere has withdrawn an application in which he demanded an order directing the State to comply with a High Court judgment to release his title deeds. In a notice issued to the registrar of the High Court and respondents’ lawyers Kantor and Immerman, Kasukuwere indicated that he was withdrawing the…
ZIMBABWE Election Support Network (Zesn), a network of Zimbabwean non-governmental organisations which play a central role in promoting democratic processes, particularly free and fair elections, has recommended postponement of by-elections in light of Covid-19 as a precautionary measure. This comes after the Zimbabwe Election Commission (Zec) contacted a by-election in Chegutu over the weekend and there…
VICE President Kembo Mohadi has lost a bid to have his ex-wife Tambudzani ordered to pay over $400 000 to him for failing to take custody of cattle which were awarded to her when the two officially parted ways in March last year. “The defendant has failed, neglected or refused to remove her herd of…
VICE President Constantino Chiwenga’s estranged wife, Marry’s trial for assaulting a maid failed to kick off yesterday after the prosecution sought a month’s postponement to May. Marry, pictured, appeared before deputy chief magistrate Chrispen Mberewere represented by Beatrice Mtetwa yesterday. Prosecutor Netsai Mushayabasa advised the court that the postponement was consensual before witnesses Delight Munyoro,…
BELOW is a full statement made to the Daily News by the late Zororo Makamba’s family after he became the first Zimbabwean to succumb to coronavirus at Wilkins Hospital in Harare yesterday. Zororo was the son of business mogul and Zanu PF politician James Makamba. Family spokesperson Tawanda Makamba, elder brother to Zororo, spoke to…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa last night closed the country’s borders to human traffic and banned all recreational activities as his government intensifies the fight against the spread of coronavirus. This comes after media personality and son of prominent businessman James Makamba, Zororo, died yesterday at Wilkins Hospital of the lethal virus. He was one of the…
