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Controversial offside spoils Zimbabwe Warriors fightback
Cameroon 2 - 1 ZimbabweZimbabwe's Warriors suffered a heartbreaking 2-1 defeat to Cameroon in their final 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) Group J qualifier at the Ahmadou Ahidjo Stadium in Yaou...Published: 20 Nov 2024 at 06:42hrs | 664 | by Staff reporter
CAPS United stun Dynamos in dramatic derby comeback
Dynamos 1 - 2 CAPS UnitedCAPS United ended a five-year wait for Harare derby glory with a dramatic late comeback, defeating rivals Dynamos 2-1 in the Castle Lager Premier Soccer League showdown at...Published: 07 Oct 2024 at 07:53hrs | 339 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Young Warriors' AFCON dream crushed by Zambia
Zimbabwe 2 - 2 Zambia(Zambia won 6-5 on penalties)Zimbabwe's Young Warriors' hopes of qualifying for next year's CAF Under-20 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) were dashed in a dramatic penalty sh...Published: 04 Oct 2024 at 08:24hrs | 149 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe military commander will soon be redeployed
AS President Emmerson Mnangagwa continues to make surprise post-election appointments amid political manoeuvres by the military to reposition itself for a more influential role going forward, Zimbabwe...Published: 06 Nov 2023 at 21:24hrs | 54 | by Staff reporter
Army fights back Mnangagwa
WHEN Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa immobilised the military from running elections as they illegally had done mainly since 2000 at the height of militarisation of politics in fear of bhora m...Published: 23 Oct 2023 at 10:54hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Junior Sables go down fighting against Scotland
ZIMBABWE'S Under-20 rugby team put on a thrilling second half performance but their efforts were in vain as they began their World Rugby Under 20 Trophy campaign against Scotland with a 64-33 de...Published: 16 Jul 2023 at 09:18hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa not qualified to judge liberation struggle credentials of comrades
Zimbabwean former deputy prime minister Arthur Mutambara, an Oxford University-trained robotics professor known for his outstanding academic prowess and political activism, says President Emmerson Mna...Published: 12 Jun 2023 at 08:24hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Thieves' beg Ramaphosa to stay
Ministers with "smallanyana" skeletons are drumming up support for President Cyril Ramaphosa not to resign because they are afraid of going to jail or their shenanigans being exposed once he is gone....Published: 04 Dec 2022 at 15:27hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Artuz to launch anti-corruption clean-up campaign
THE Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (Artuz) is planning to launch an anti-corruption clean-up campaign tomorrow, which will coincide with President Emmerson Mnangagwa's monthly national c...Published: 31 Mar 2022 at 08:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's 2017 coup coalition collapses
THE fact that Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga is contemplating challenging President Emmerson Mnangagwa for the Zanu-PF presidency at the party's elective congress next year, while factions loyal ...Published: 22 Nov 2021 at 06:17hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa suffers major setback
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's plan to retain Chief Justice Luke Malaba following changes to the constitution suffered a setback after the High Court yesterday ruled that the top judge's term of offic...Published: 16 May 2021 at 09:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Johann Rupert gives Ramaphosa an ultimatum
Billionaire businessman Johann Rupert has allegedly given President Cyril Ramaphosa a marching order, instructing him to tow the line and fire Ace Magashule, African National Congress (ANC) secretary ...Published: 27 Mar 2021 at 17:44hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa moving to tighten his dead man's grip on power
AFTER his initial daring purges of military commanders who propelled him to power through a military coup in November 2017, President Emmerson Mnangagwa is now capitalising on political contingency an...Published: 06 Feb 2021 at 16:26hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chisora beaten on points
Oleksandr Usyk delivered a stylish and measured display to pick apart Derek Chisora in a points win that underlined his credentials at heavyweight.The former unified world cruiserweight champi...Published: 01 Nov 2020 at 08:21hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Brave performance by Brendan Taylor as Pakistan pips Zimbabwe
Shaheen Afridi tops Brendan Taylor to make it 1-0 for PakistanPakistan 281 for 8 (Sohail 71, Imam-ul-Haq 58, Chisoro 2-31) beat Zimbabwe 255 (Taylor 11...Published: 30 Oct 2020 at 18:22hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa's integrity 'dented', says Snuki Zikalala
As former Bosasa chief Gavin Watson's family closes the chapter on his life, the ANC Veterans' League head Snuki Zikalala says President Cyril Ramaphosa "has to grow up" after his integrity was "dente...Published: 04 Sep 2019 at 12:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Zifa Capture' fightback begins, Chiyangwa's sidekick 'spills the beans'
EXPELLED ZIifa board member Chamunorwa Chiwanza has challenged his recent dismissal from the football association's excecutive committee before accusing Zifa president Felton Kamambo and acting vice-p...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 09:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa 'deliberately misled parliament'
South Africa’s Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane delivered a mortal blow to the reformist President Cyril Ramaphosa on Friday.The findings against him are the very worst he could have expe...Published: 19 Jul 2019 at 16:10hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Marc Cayeux gives everyone hope after top ten finish in Cape Town
Marc Cayeux's story is one that stays with you for the rest of your life once you are aware of it. For anyone unaware of the Zimbabwean's journey so far, observing the final leaderboard of the Vodacom...Published: 21 Sep 2018 at 11:27hrs | 5 | by Agencies
Zuma warns detractors
Former president Jacob Zuma has "warned" those who continue to speak about him in public not to "provoke" him.Zuma told his detractors to keep quiet and discuss their own organisations, not hi...Published: 08 Jun 2018 at 07:17hrs | | by Staff rpeorter
Zuma fighting Ramaphosa's economic reforms
South Africa's former leader Jacob Zuma is impeding a crackdown on corruption by the ruling African National Congress (ANC) under President Cyril Ramaphosa, the head of the communist party said....Published: 05 Jun 2018 at 07:18hrs | | by Reuters
Messi returns for Barcelona
Lionel Messi is expected back for tonight's Champions League soccer quarter-final first leg against Roma and for Barcelona his return cannot come soon enough. Messi's latest rescue-act on Saturday, wh...Published: 04 Apr 2018 at 08:02hrs | | by AFP
Zim dream shattered in painful three-run defeat
United Arab Emirates 235/7 (Shahzad 59, Shabber 40, Raza 3/41, Chatara 2/49)Zimbabwe 226/7 (Williams 80, Moor 39, Naveed 3/40) by three runs on Duckworth/Lewis methodA courageous half cent...Published: 23 Mar 2018 at 05:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Implications of Tsvangirai's exit
This is my first opinion article of the year and I would like to start by wishing my dear readers a prosperous 2018! It is an election year and a lot of complex political stuff will be going on....Published: 12 Jan 2018 at 06:18hrs | | by Innocent Ncube
Mnangagwa and the 'poisoned ice cream' plot
On August 17, the Zimbabwean government issued an official denial that Emmerson Mnangagwa, who was vice president at the time, had eaten ice cream at a political rally."For the record, the Vic...Published: 25 Nov 2017 at 15:37hrs | | by AFP
Mnangagwa's ferocious fightback shows that Zanu-PF wars far from over
The ferocious fightback in last Wednesday's explosive Zanu-PF politburo meeting by under-fire Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his backers shows that the former liberation movement's deadly succe...Published: 15 Oct 2017 at 18:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa plots fightback
UNDER-FIRE Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa (pictured) will not be pressured to quit his government or party positions, but instead will continue to serve under President Robert Mugabe, family source...Published: 14 Sep 2017 at 06:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa allies plot fightback
ZANU-PF could be heading for an implosion amid reports that Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa's allies were spoiling for a fight with their rivals following the recent public humiliation of their lead...Published: 01 Aug 2017 at 07:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
ANC calls for 'pro-apartheid' Zille's resignation
The African National Congress in the Western Cape yesterday called for the immediate resignation of former Democratic Alliance party leader and Western Cape premier, Helen Zille."She has humiliated th...Published: 05 Jun 2017 at 06:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe succession battles becoming uglier
Political Scientist and Sapes director, Ibbo Mandaza (IM) says President Robert Mugabe has thwarted an "attempted coup" within his party. Mandaza spoke to Violet Gonda (VG) on her Hot Seat programme w...Published: 30 Apr 2017 at 14:19hrs | | by Violet Gonda
Zanu-PF burns as 'chefs' fight
The ugly tribal, factional and succession wars devouring President Robert Mugabe's ruling Zanu-PF have once again reached worrying levels, amid revelations that the party faction opposed to Vice Presi...Published: 25 Apr 2017 at 07:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe wants Kasukuwere out
Former Mashonaland Central youth leader, Godfrey Tsenengamu, has sensationally claimed that President Robert Mugabe wants under fire national political commissar Saviour Kasukuwere out of the wa...Published: 06 Apr 2017 at 07:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Calls for Mnangagwa's arrest
In a stunning call that is set to tear the warring ruling Zanu-PF further apart, Manicaland Provincial Affairs minister Mandi Chimene says Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa should be arrested for ...Published: 23 Feb 2017 at 17:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa supporters take on Mugabe
It is now open war in President Robert Mugabe's ruling Zanu-PF - after Zimbabwe's long-ruling leader said pointedly at the weekend that there was not one person among all his ambitious lieutenants...Published: 22 Feb 2017 at 06:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa told to man up or sink
As Zanu-PF's seemingly intractable tribal, factional and succession wars approach a deadly climax, worried allies of under fire Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa have warned that the VP now risks ...Published: 15 Jan 2017 at 14:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF's deadly tribal, factional and succession wars
Zanu-PF's deadly tribal, factional and succession wars are getting more intractable by the day, with the two main party camps going at each other hammer and tongs in Mashonaland Central yesterday....Published: 29 Nov 2016 at 09:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
G40 takes aim at Mnangagwa's head
The Generation 40 (G40) group, which has been gasping for air in the face of the unrelenting mauling it is receiving at the hands of Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa's allies, is fighting back with i...Published: 22 Nov 2016 at 07:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Piecemeal protests will never force real change in Zimbabwe
The recent wave of peaceful protests and shutdowns that have rocked Zimbabwe, due to an ever increasing unbearable economic and political situation brought about by the ZANU PF government, have been v...Published: 27 Jul 2016 at 12:07hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe is on the eve of a revolution, the giant has awoken
Zimbabwe is ready for a complete revolution. Lenin foretold that a part of the society or 'class emancipates the whole of society, but only provided the whole of society is in the same situation as th...Published: 12 Jul 2016 at 07:17hrs | | by Toendepi Shonhe
Tomana's army recruits cause chaos
Prosecutor-general Johannes Tomana is being accused of violating the Constitution after engaging the services of senior army officers to do administration work in his office, the Daily News can reveal...Published: 06 Jun 2016 at 12:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa allies' fightback backfires
THE attempt by Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa's backers to fight back against the ambitious Generation 40 (G40) group with Women's League national secretary for administration, Esphinah Nhari, deno...Published: 12 Dec 2015 at 16:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bosso secure first win under new coaches
Highlanders FC 1 - 0 Flame LilyHIGHLANDERS FC finally secured first win under new coaches Cosmas Zulu and Amin Soma Phiri when they beat Flame Lily in a Castle Premiership match on Thursday at Bar...Published: 17 Sep 2015 at 17:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
State House is far, says Mnangagwa - Interview Part 3
Q: So you created what is called a "bogey" in this country?A: What is a bogey?Q: A kind of false flag, where people...Published: 29 Aug 2015 at 10:19hrs | | by Baffour Ankomah
'Multicurrency use was a fight back strategy'
Zimbabwe introduced the use of multi foreign currencies as legal tender in Zimbabwe as a fightback against the attempts to destroy the Zimdollar, Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa saidThe ...Published: 07 Aug 2015 at 10:28hrs | | by Ndou Paul
Mugabe, Mujuru set to meet
A showdown is looming in Cabinet today as President Robert Mugabe and Vice-President Joice Mujuru are set to meet for the first time since the veteran ruler alleged that his deputy was involved in a p...Published: 09 Dec 2014 at 07:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Netherlands humiliate Spain
Spain 1 - 5 NetherlandsSalvador - Robin van Persie and Arjen Robben scored twice each as the Netherlands avenged their 2010 Soccer World Cup final defeat to Spain with a record 5-1 drubbing of the...Published: 14 Jun 2014 at 08:28hrs | | by AFP
Dembare booted out
DYNAMOS' dream of advancing beyond the knockout stage in the Champions League was blown out yesterday when they went down to AS Vita Club in the return leg of the first round tie at the Father Raphael...Published: 10 Mar 2014 at 06:37hrs | | by Sports reporter
Dembare beat 10 men Harare City
Harare City 1 - 3DynamosDynamos have been stealthily moving towards the top of the log and for the first time this season, the Harare giants shot to the summit of the Castle Lager Premiership af...Published: 05 Sep 2013 at 11:47hrs | | by Sports Reporter
Ten man Chicken Inn lose to Dynamos
Dynamos (1) 2 - (0) 1 Chicken InnDenver Mukamba turned on a great performance to light up the afternoon for Dynamos before injury spoiled his day as the Harare giants coasted to a nervy win over ...Published: 21 May 2012 at 05:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Everton spoil Manchester United' day as Man City closes in
Steven Pienaar's late equaliser blew the Premier League title race wide open as Everton fought back to draw with Manchester United yesterday.United swept to a 3-1 lead when Wayne Rooney, Dann...Published: 23 Apr 2012 at 04:19hrs | 77 | by BBC
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