Emmanuel Marambe SPORTS WRITER THE much-anticipated season opening spectacle, the Castle Challenge Cup pitting Ngezi Platinum Stars against Dynamos, has been slated for February 24, the top flight has confirmed. The match, the precursor to the Castle Lager Premier Soccer League, features the reigning Castle Lager Premier Soccer League champions Madamburo against the current Chibuku…
FORMER Dynamos and Gaborone United coach Elvis “Chuchu” Chiweshe has been appointed head coach of Northern Region Soccer League side Karoi United. Chiweshe who also served as Harare City developmental side coach, takes over from Levison Selous who left the club at the end of last season. Chiweshe is confident that he will change the…
Ashley MoyoSENIOR LIFESTYLE WRITERmoyoa@dailynews.co.zw ZIM HIP-HOP artist Saintfloew dominated the upcoming National Merit Awards (Nama) with nominations in three categories. The 22nd edition of Nama will take place on February 24 in Hall 3 at the ZITF in Bulawayo. Born Tawanda Mambo, Saintfloew has been nominated in three categories, including the Outstanding Male Musician category…
GOOD news! It has finally been agreed that the ownership and operations of the National Sports Stadium will now be transferred to the ministry of Youth, Sport, Arts and Recreation. “We have the experience, and passion to now use this opportunity for Zimbabwe to become a sporting powerhouse,” said minister of Sport Kirsty Coventry on…
CONSUMERS, unions and business say it is now imperative that authorities convene an urgent all-stakeholders’ meeting to deal with the country’s prices emergency. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, they warned that the current situation could not be allowed to continue if the crisis was not to degenerate into an even bigger national calamity. This…
By Brandon JosphatSENIOR STAFF WRITERjosphatbl@dailynews.co.zw THE country will not allow same sex relationships and marriages, authorities have reiterated. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, Foreign Affairs minister, Fredrick Shava, said homosexuality ran contrary to both the local culture and laws. He added that Zimbabwe’s re-engagement with Western countries would thus not see authorities sanctioning homosexuality….
THE United Kingdom (UK) says it will continue supporting the country’s health delivery system, especially in combating the current cholera outbreak. Speaking to the media in Harare after meeting Health minister Douglas Mombeshora, British ambassador to Zimbabwe Peter Vowles said the UK was committed to provide essential medicines through the health resilience fund (HRF). “We…
A HARARE woman, believed to be part of a female group that went viral on social media this week after assaulting another woman they accused of having an affair with their friend’s husband, has appeared at the Harare Magistrates’ Courts. Mitchel Kariwo of Hatcliffe was arraigned before Harare magistrate Dennis Mangosi facing assault charges before…
THE proposal to construct a new US$100 million Bulawayo water supply, Glass Block dam, viewed as a medium-term measure to address the city’s perennial water crisis, has divided the city fathers. The dam is earmarked for construction in Insiza district, Matabeleland South Province, by a private company. While the government and other stakeholders have approved…
By Ketty Nyoni SENGEZO Tshabangu, who asserts to be the secretary general of the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), has been nominated as one of the party’s representatives to the Senate. The seats fell vacant at the end of last year when Tshabangu wrote to the Parliament notifying it that he had recalled dozens of…
