Emmanuel Marambe SPORTS WRITER FORMER Young Warriors player Sebastien Summerfield has pledged to champion local grassroots football development in a bid to ensure that Zimbabwe can become a major exporter of football talent in Africa and beyond. Summerfield, who has been playing in Europe for a couple of seasons now, has since formed the Sebastien…
ZIMBABWE’S national women’s cricket team, the Lady Chevrons yesterday put up a spirited fight to draw their second ODI against Ireland at Harare Sports Club, leaving the three-match series delicately poised at one-nil in favour of the latter. The Lady Chevrons now need to win the third and final ODI tomorrow to avoid a series…
RENOWNED apostle and author Eunor Guti aka Mai Guti’s second book, Eunor Guti A Memoir of Faith and Service, fetched more than US$20 000 at its launch held at the Harare International Conference Centre on Saturday. In the book, which chronicles Mai Guti’s life, from her humble beginnings to the present day, she expressed her…
WE KNOW that illicit drugs are flowing into the country from various countries. Yet we rarely get to hear who the couriers smuggling most of it through legal ports of entry are. We have drug and narcotics police units at border posts. We only get to hear about the end users who get arrested daily….
POLICE in Mhangura have reported 23 cattle deaths from suspected cyanide poisoning. In a statement, police said the cattle died on January…
A BULAWAYO couple has been arrested and charged with concealing the death of their baby after burying the child on a river bank in Mpopoma without a burial permit. The couple Pretty Sibanda, 35 and Isaac Gwatinyanya, 62 of Magwegwe suburb, appeared before Western Commonage magistrate, Progress Murandu on a charge of failing to give…
THE government has commenced the distribution of electronic gadgets to extension workers as they prepare for the season’s first round of expected crop yield assessment. The Agriculture ministry conducts crop assessment twice, before and after the tasselling to quantify the expected yield target per cropping season. Speaking during a handover of at least 614 tablets…
A 24-YEAR-OLD Bulawayo woman has been sentenced to an effective four years in prison for unlawful termination of pregnancy. Junior Ncube appeared before Bulawayo magistrate Amanda Ndlovu where she had initially denied the charges, but was found guilty after a full trial. Ncube was sentenced to five years in prison before one year was suspended…
By Brandon Josphat josphatbl@dailynews.co.zw AUTHORITIES are optimistic that their current and planned new policy steps will soon alleviate the pressure on consumers by stabilising both the Zimbabwe dollar and the prices of basic goods in the country. Speaking to the Daily News at the weekend, the governor of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ), John…
By Rutendo Ngara THE government is in the process of reviewing 99-year land leases so that they are bankable and can be used as collateral by farmers. This comes as the government has been criticised for the leases it gave to beneficiaries of the country’s land reform programme, as farmers could not access funding from…
