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Bosso dumping black and white colours?
The club introduced the kit last season as their optional colours and has been using them more often in this pre-season. This has led to speculation that they are dumping their traditional black and w...Published: 05 Mar 2023 at 16:37hrs | 1167 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF cleric arrested
Zanu-PF-aligned preacher Obadiah Musindo has been arrested and is detained at Harare Central police station on allegations he stole US$5,900 worth of cellphones.According to NewZimbabwe, Musin...Published: 26 Feb 2023 at 20:44hrs | 1503 | by Staff reporter
Govt defends US$88 million Mbudzi interchange loan deal
FINANCE Minister Mthuli Ncube has defended the US$88 million loan agreement with Fossil Mines for construction of the Mbudzi interchange in Harare, and claimed that there was nothing amiss about the l...Published: 16 Feb 2023 at 04:54hrs | 478 | by Staff reporter
US$88m govt deal raises stink
THE controversy surrounding funding for Harare's Mbudzi interchange project has deepened amid reports that the project costs were inflated.Wednesday confirmation by Finance minister Mthuli Ncu...Published: 10 Feb 2023 at 05:41hrs | 874 | by Staff reporter
Bloodbath at Dembare
AFTER all, it's not only former coach Tonderai Ndiraya and ex-executive chairman Isaiah Mupfurutsa who will pay the price for Dynamos' failures. The glamourous Castle Lager Premiership footbal...Published: 08 Feb 2023 at 05:01hrs | 394 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa too compromised to fight corruption'
BINGA North legislator Prince Dubeko Sibanda says President Emmerson Mnangagwa cannot fight corruption because he is compromised by vested interests of his family's corrupt business undertakings condu...Published: 04 Feb 2023 at 20:16hrs | 1608 | by Staff reporter
Charamba justifies Emmerson Junior's presence at meeting with Belarus chefs
DEPUTY Chief Secretary in the Office of the President and Cabinet Office, George Charamba, has justified the presence of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's son, Emmerson Jr, at a high-level State House me...Published: 04 Feb 2023 at 20:01hrs | 662 | by Staff reporter
Dembare surrender use of Rufaro to fate
DYNAMOS are keeping their fingers crossed the Harare City Council will ready Rufaro Stadium for use for the upcoming Castle Lager Premiership football season.The Glamour Boys have ordinarily u...Published: 25 Jan 2023 at 10:29hrs | 135 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa family 'the most' persecuted'
Zanu-PF women affairs provincial chairperson for Midlands Tsitsi Zhou has said the recent sanctioning of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's son Emmerson Jnr, is evidence his family is the most persecuted ...Published: 25 Dec 2022 at 14:19hrs | 835 | by Staff reporter
'Ordinary Zimbabweans bear the brunt of sanctions'
A "GO FUND ME" campaign for a Nkayi family living with albinism was stopped midway after the online fundraising platform said Zimbabweans could not run the initiative since the country was under econo...Published: 20 Dec 2022 at 20:43hrs | 653 | by Staff reporter
Biden angry with Mnangagwa snub, slaps son with sanctions on eve of African leaders summit
The United States on Monday slapped corruption sanctions on one of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's sons as the U.S. prepares to host a major summit of African leaders in Washington which was snubbed by...Published: 14 Dec 2022 at 06:48hrs | 4310 | by Staff reporter
Fossil Group set to retrench 2,000; move follows US decision to hit company with sanctions
FOSSIL Group, parent company of Fossil Agro and Fossil Contracting, which was Monday added to America's sanctions list alongside proprietor Obey Chimuka, is set to retrench 2,000 employees in response...Published: 14 Dec 2022 at 06:44hrs | 927 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF accuse the US of 'barbarism and cowardice'
Zanu-PF has accused the United States (US) of "barbarism and cowardice" after Washington added President Emmerson Mnangagwa's son, Junior, three individuals and two business entities on its sanctions ...Published: 14 Dec 2022 at 06:44hrs | 544 | by Staff reporter
Fossil retrenches 2000 employees
The recent placement of Fossil Group on Sanctions by United States has pushed the firm to lay off more than 2000 employees. United States of America put Fossil on sanctions list ami...Published: 13 Dec 2022 at 14:35hrs | 1953 | by Simbarashe Sithole in Harare
Mnagagwa's son and Mrs Tagwirei added to US sanctions list
WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated four Zimbabwean individuals and two Zimbabwea...Published: 12 Dec 2022 at 22:40hrs | 3261 | by Staff Reports
Zimbabwe sets aside $1,2 billion for sports facilities
RENOVATIONS at the National Sports Stadium are set to be accelerated next year after the Government set aside ZW$1,2 billion for rehabilitation of sporting facilities across the country.The ot...Published: 25 Nov 2022 at 05:06hrs | 185 | by Staff reporter
'Wadyajena extorts US$2 million from Kuda Tagwirei'
Controversial Gokwe-Nembudziya Member of Parliament Mayor Justice Wadyajena has been fingered in a US$ 2 million extortion scam committed against business tycoon Kuda Tagwirei. The information...Published: 23 Nov 2022 at 16:42hrs | 8686 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chamisa ally under massive pressure over Rufaro
ZIFA has taken a dig at Harare City Council for "dragging politics into sport" after Sakunda Holdings formally withdrew their proposal to modernise Rufaro Stadium, citing "toxicity" in the local autho...Published: 20 Nov 2022 at 15:36hrs | 213 | by Staff reporter
Dembare blasts CCC led council over collapsed Rufaro Stadium re-development
DYNAMOS has lashed out at Harare City Council for backtracking on its agreement to partner energy company Sakunda Holdings on the renovation of the dilapidated Rufaro Stadium.Dynamos, keen to ...Published: 19 Nov 2022 at 06:36hrs | 890 | by Staff reporter
CCC led council scuttles Rufaro Stadium deal
A certain comedian once made a metaphoric comparison of having a vision and the height of people. He said tall people are so tall that they can see tomorrow, while short people are so short th...Published: 18 Nov 2022 at 05:04hrs | 103 | by Staff reporter
Mafume promises to rebuild decrepit Rufaro to international standards
HARARE Mayor Jacob Mafume has declared that council will rehabilitate Rufaro Stadium to world class standards on its own, declaring the local authority has the financial capacity to implement the ambi...Published: 17 Nov 2022 at 05:10hrs | 980 | by Staff reporter
Town House, Sakunda trade barbs over bungled Rufaro deal
Harare mayor Jacob Mafume has accused Kuda Tagwirei's Sakunda Holdings of attempts snatch Rufaro Stadium from the local authority on the mere promise of terrace bucket seats as the two parties took to...Published: 16 Nov 2022 at 19:38hrs | 419 | by Staff reporter
Sakunda Withdraws Rufaro Stadium Renovation Plan
Fuel giant Sakunda Holdings has announced that it has withdrawn its offer to renovate Rufaro Stadium over what it says was lack of political will to...Published: 15 Nov 2022 at 21:34hrs | 653 | by Simbarashe Sithole in Harare
Sakunda windfall for Bosso
CHARMED by Highlanders' improved second half of the season performance in the Castle Lager Premier Soccer League, the club's principal sponsors, giant energy company Sakunda Holdings has offered 250 p...Published: 15 Nov 2022 at 04:48hrs | 751 | by Staff reporter
Tagwirei denies stealing $3 billion, claims he wanted to leave Zimbabwe in 2015
FUEL mogul Kudakwashe Tagwirei has for the first time proudly commented on the controversial Command Agriculture programme, distancing himself from abusing US$3 billion as reported by the Auditor Gene...Published: 14 Nov 2022 at 05:22hrs | 2882 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa donates farming equipment, bus to Solusi
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday donated an assortment of equipment that will help transform the Seventh Day Adventist-run Solusi University in Figtree, with the consignment including tractors with ploug...Published: 14 Nov 2022 at 05:10hrs | 409 | by Staff reporter
US, UK dismiss Zimbabwe's anti-sanctions marches
UNITED States (US) and United Kingdom (UK) yesterday rubbished anti-sanctions marches that took place on Tuesday, saying the demonstrations will not jolt them into removing them until there is rule of...Published: 27 Oct 2022 at 06:17hrs | 764 | by Staff reporter
Dembare, Bosso in low stakes Battle of Zimbabwe
GIANTS Dynamos and Highlanders are set to rekindle their age-old rivalries with nothing much to fight for in a Castle Lager Premiership match at the National Sports Stadium this Sunday.The con...Published: 27 Oct 2022 at 06:08hrs | 105 | by Staff reporter
Dembare, Bosso play for pride in Sunday premiership clash
Fallen Zimbabwe premiership giants Dynamos and Highlanders clash this Sunday in a Castle Lager Premiership Match Day 32 with nothing left to play for except pride.The so-called Battle for Zimb...Published: 26 Oct 2022 at 20:59hrs | 203 | by Staff reporter
Bosso resume training
COULD there be a cold war at Bosso? Perhaps not, judging from the shift that players put in at yesterday's training session amid rumours of player unrest at the club. From the outside, it woul...Published: 13 Oct 2022 at 05:55hrs | 242 | by Staff reporter
Bosso leadership watches PSG, off to Barcelona
FRENCH football giants Paris St German are the first side the Highlanders leadership, which is on a tour of Europe has visited.Members of the Bosso hierarchy were part of the crowd that watche...Published: 12 Oct 2022 at 19:04hrs | 357 | by Staff reporter
Highlanders leadership leaves for Europe
THE Highlanders leadership left the country yesterday for a tour of Europe that will see them going to France, England, Spain and Belgium to visit yet-to-be-named clubs.The tour is a learning ...Published: 10 Oct 2022 at 06:08hrs | 476 | by Staff reporter
Hwange 'explosion' blackouts Zimbabwe
THE major power blackout that hit Zimbabwe on Tuesday and Wednesday was reportedly a result of a massive explosion at Hwange Power Station's power generation Unit 4 on Tuesday, NewsDay Weekender has b...Published: 01 Oct 2022 at 06:12hrs | 1475 | by Staff reporter
Sakunda's Dembare mediation hits a snag
THE mediation efforts by Dynamos' principal sponsors Sakunda Holdings are likely to yield no result as the warring parties in the long-standing ownership and shareholder wrangles remain poles apart....Published: 30 Jun 2022 at 06:44hrs | 235 | by Staff reporter
Sakunda mediate in Dembare in-fighting
Dynamos principal sponsors, Sakunda Holdings, have offered to help mediate and end hostilities by parties battling for control of the Premier Soccer League giants.The energy giants were last S...Published: 26 Jun 2022 at 08:09hrs | 155 | by Staff reporter
The makings of Kuda Tagwirei
Businessman and serial investor Mr Kuda Tagwirei had endured an energy-sapping and disappointing 12-hour wait to refuel his car at a local service station sometime in 2003 when he had a moment of epip...Published: 12 Jun 2022 at 08:26hrs | 541 | by Staff reporter
Tagwirei's humble beginnings
ONE of Zimbabwe's most astute businessmen and Sakunda Holdings chief executive officer, Mr Kudakwashe Tagwirei, has given rare insights into how he started his flourishing business empire, revealing h...Published: 05 Jun 2022 at 09:00hrs | 797 | by Staff reporter
Rufaro Stadium refurb gathers momentum
HARARE City Council officials flew into South Africa this week on a stadium benchmarking tour as preparations for the refurbishment of Rufaro Stadium into a world-class facility gather momentum....Published: 26 May 2022 at 06:24hrs | 593 | by Staff reporter
De Jongh to bounce back at Highlanders?
DUTCHMAN Hendrikus Pieter de Jongh's resignation as Somalia national team coach has fuelled speculation that he could be on his way back to Highlanders, who are on the prowl for a new coach.De...Published: 24 May 2022 at 07:24hrs | 449 | by Staff reporter
Sakunda raise Dembare, Bosso concern
SAKUNDA Holdings, the principal sponsors of Dynamos and Highlanders, say they are worried by the events at the two football clubs after the giants last week wielded axes on their coaches.First...Published: 24 May 2022 at 07:23hrs | 510 | by Staff reporter
Ndiraya's suspension stinks
DYNAMOS have initiated negotiations with possible candidates to replace suspended head coach Tonderai Ndiraya.Ndiraya is unlikely to survive the storm at the Premiership football giants....Published: 23 May 2022 at 06:36hrs | 424 | by Staff reporter
Bosso eye Soma-Phiri for interim coach
AMINI Soma-Phiri might bounce back as Highlanders' interim coach as the club continues their search for a substantive gaffer following the sacking of Mandla Mpofu, impeccable sources said.In 2...Published: 21 May 2022 at 17:56hrs | 102 | by Staff reporter
Bonus row at Dynamos
TENSION is reportedly rising in the Dynamos camp amid reports that players are disgruntled over unpaid winning bonuses, in a development that threatens the team's title championship race.Dynam...Published: 12 May 2022 at 06:32hrs | 603 | by Staff reporter
Zupco deal: The cost of corruption
THE Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (Zupco)'s monopoly on the public transport system has opened a can of worms amid reports that Parliament was blocked from making inquiries on the procurement, own...Published: 09 May 2022 at 07:06hrs | 1003 | by Staff reporter
Red flag over murky govt vehicle deals
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) says it will not investigate various cases in which the government, local authorities and parastatals have been prejudiced through the non-delivery of mo...Published: 30 Apr 2022 at 16:25hrs | 908 | by Staff reporter
Huge BF crowd excites Ndiraya
DYNAMOS coach Tonderai Ndiraya was thrilled by the huge crowd that turned out to watch the Independence Day trophy final at Barbourfields Stadium between his side and Highlanders on Monday.He ...Published: 20 Apr 2022 at 08:09hrs | 342 | by Staff reporter
Rich pickings for Bosso players
NOT only did Highlanders walk away with bragging rights after beating old foes Dynamos, but Bosso players made rich pickings of US$1 500 each as bonuses for the Uhuru Cup victory.The clu...Published: 19 Apr 2022 at 06:35hrs | 926 | by Staff reporter
Sakunda adds excitement to Bosso, Dembare clash
SAKUNDA Holdings has added more excitement to this afternoon's Independence Trophy final clash between Dynamos and Highlanders, pouring US$60 000 in bonuses.The perennial rivals face off at Ba...Published: 18 Apr 2022 at 10:31hrs | 464 | by Staff reporter
Bosso, Dembare light up 42nd Independence celebrations
ZIMBABWE turns 42 tomorrow, and the big party is in the City of Kings where football giants Dynamos and Highlanders clash in a potentially mouth-watering battle befitting the occasion.It's the...Published: 17 Apr 2022 at 09:07hrs | 42 | by Staff reporter
IMF raises red flag on murky Command Agric
THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) has expressed concern over the limited levels of transparency and accountability on the country's agriculture import substitution programme, widely known as Comma...Published: 16 Apr 2022 at 20:41hrs | 719 | by Staff reporter
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