Emmanuel Marambe SENIOR STAFF WRITER THE winner of this year’s Soccer Star of the Year Award will be a tossup between Yadah’s Khama Billiat and Simba Bhora’s Walter Musona if the opinions expressed by local football fans are anything to go by. The 2024 Soccer Star of the Year as well as the first and…
SPORTS WRITER DEBUTANT Tinotenda Maposa was the last gasp hero for Zimbabwe as his 11-run contribution in the final over helped the hosts secure a nail biting two-wicket victory over Pakistan in the third and final T20I at Queens Sports Club in Bulawayo yesterday. Coming in at number nine, Maposa stepped up at a time…
Cloud Fusire SPORTS WRITER ZIMBABWE’s U17 boys and girls opened their TotalEnergies Under-17 Africa Cup of Nations 2025 Cosafa qualifier with massive wins against Eswatini and Mauritius respectively in Johannesburg, South Africa yesterday. El Shaddai Sadomba scored a hat-trick as the Young Warriors hammered Eswatini 5-1, with Tawanda Chakuchichi and Valentine Macheka weighing in with…
Yvonne Ncube in BULAWAYO A BEITBRIDGE man, Benson Ndlovu, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for the brutal murder of a fellow resident, Langton Ncube. The incident occurred after Ncube intervened in a dispute between Ndlovu and another individual over an undisclosed issue. Ndlovu was convicted of murder following a full trial before…
Brighton Muronzereyi and Brandon Josphat STAFF WRITERS THERE are growing concerns over the future of major retail shops in the country, in the face of the ubiquitous and unregulated informal sector. Appearing before the parliamentary committee on Budget and Finance this week, the president of the Confederation of Zimbabwe Retailers (CZR), Denford Mutashu, confirmed that…
REVELATIONS that the ministry of Health and Child Care recorded 6 201 cases of diarrhoea in just one week should ring alarm bells and prod authorities to take immediate and decisive action. According to a story we carried in this paper yesterday, which quoted a report generated by the ministry of Health and Child Care,…
Rutendo Ngara STAFF WRITER ngarar@dailynews.co.zw HIGH Court judge Justice Pisirayi Kwenda yesterday dismissed an application for referral to the Constitutional Court filed by fraud-accused Harare businessmen Moses Mpofu and Mike Chimombe. In his ruling, Justice Kwenda, who described the application as frivolous and vexatious, said that the two should have raised their issue at the…
Masimba Makwembere STAFF WRITER makwemberem@dailynews.co.zw ENVIRONMENTAL Social Governance (ESG) goals, which seek to ensure that Zimbabwe meets its current needs without compromising the future, can only be achieved if business, the government and civil society work together. ESG Network Zimbabwe executive director Willard Razawo made the remarks during the 8th Zimbabwe National ESG and Responsible…
Stella Madzivanyika STAFF WRITER madzivanyikas@dailynews.co.zw THE country is expecting a bumper tobacco harvest in the 2024/2025 summer season on the back of increased hectarage put under the crop. According to Agricultural and Rural Development Advisory Services chief director Leonard Munamati, the hectarage put under tobacco had risen from 46 989 hectares in the 2023/24 season…
Jeffrey Muvundusi SOUTHERN EDITOR THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) is facing a grave crisis in its cemetery operations, as ongoing challenges with equipment shortages and deteriorating infrastructure threaten to further complicate burial services in the city. During a recent full council meeting, councillors raised alarm over the state of the city’s cemeteries, particularly the Luveve…
