HARARE – The Grain Marketing Board (GMB) has lost over $40 000 after its acting accounting officer allegedly pocketed money meant for employees. Lovemore Ncube, 29, allegedly converted to his personal use $40 800 which was meant for employees to buy stands. Ncube appeared before magistrate Anita Tshuma on 65 counts of theft of trust…
HARARE – Zifa will this week hold a board meeting to deliberate on the federation’s budget for this year’s activities. Chief executive Jonathan Mashingaidze indicated that the meeting would also pave way on getting into motion the launching of an ambitious project, dubbed a Football Trust, aimed at mobilising resources for local football governing body….
HARARE – The conflict between Welshman Ncube and Arthur Mutambara over the control of the smaller MDC has degenerated into a circus. Recently, Ncube fired five MPs and 49 councillors claiming they had crossed the floor to mainstream MDC. He has written to Parliament to expel the MPs from the house. But Mutambara has written…
HARARE – Andy Waller has always been known to be a fitness freak even back in his playing days and it seems nothing has changed about the newly-appointed Zimbabwe cricket coach. The former Zimbabwe batsman has insisted that no cricketer will represent the country during his reign if they fail the mandatory fitness test which…
HARARE – CAPS Holdings boss Frederick Mtandah who is facing charges of swindling the pharmaceutical firm of more than $25 million has applied to be freed by the court, claiming the state is not ready for trial. His lawyer Linda Chipato yesterday told the court that the state was free to summon Mtandah whenever they…
HARARE – Several bigwigs from Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC face the axe in Harare following failure to secure a two-thirds confirmation to represent the party in harmonised elections set for later this year. MDC spokesperson for Harare province, Obert Gutu confirmed on his Facebook page yesterday that party bigwigs who include Science and Technology…
HARARE – A team of Fifa financial consultants is expected to arrive in the country today to ascertain the financial support required by the cash-strapped Zimbabwe Football Association. German Rolf Eggenberger and Zambian Fidelis Banda will be in the country until Thursday on a fact-finding mission before reporting back to Fifa’s headquarters in Zurich. This…
HARARE – Dynamos’ title-winning captain Tawanda Muparati has dismissed reports linking him with a move away from DeMbare and has since set his sights on featuring for the club in the African Champions League next year. Muparati was one of the key factors in the Glamour Boys’ league and cup double success in the…
HARARE – Police have launched a manhunt for two armed robbers who pounced on a Waverley Blanket employee on her way to the bank and robbed her of over $412 000 on Monday afternoon. Harare police spokesperson Tadious Chibanda told the Daily News yesterday that two armed robbers swooped on the 62-year-old accounting officer and…
HARARE – Harare Gardens on Sunday witnessed some fascinating synergies between musicians as they took turns to entertain thousands of music fans who had converged to commemorate the first anniversary of the death of Tongai Moyo aka Dhewa. It is now a year since Dhewa succumbed to cancer. And what a day it turned out…
